Welcome to Colony 47

What it means to be Community Based...

Being an organisation working together with the community means the focus and resources of this organisation go to assisting the local Tasmanian community. It means Colony 47 is driven by the needs of our community and our ability to meet these needs. Colony 47 has a proud history of working to meet some of the needs of its community.

It was under this principle in 1973, that Rev. Jim Colville identified (with the community) and created a drop-in centre/coffee shop that catered for young people who were "disadvantaged socially, economically, educationally and culturally''. This centre is where Colony 47 started...

Today ... Colony 47 delivers services out of seven sites in Southern Tasmania, employs over 100 people and offers the flexibility to be able to work with clients at these sites, in their homes, at schools or in the community... read more.