Community Storytelling Program
A strategy that started in the boardroom, coming home to Western Sydney.
- Client
- SydWest Multicultural Services
- Stream
- Systems and Impact
- Sector
- Community services
- Year
- 2026
Overview
The NSW Premier’s Department funds councils to act on social cohesion. SydWest is working with the City of Parramatta on a community program under that funding, and Just Gold designs and delivers its community storytelling forums. The program is under way now.
Challenge
The Social Cohesion Roadmap from the National Summit sets out what works. The task is to bring the Roadmap and the Premier’s Department funding together and turn them into community storytelling forums in Western Sydney.
Approach
[Placeholder: method (The Ethos Method or The Praxis Framework) to be confirmed]
Just Gold designs and delivers the community storytelling forums with SydWest and the City of Parramatta. [Placeholder: Approach detail to be confirmed]
Deliverables
- Design of the community storytelling forums
- Delivery of the forums
- [Placeholder: further deliverables to be confirmed]
Outcome
SydWest now holds a state funded program with its council. A strategy that started in the boardroom went national and is coming home to Western Sydney. [Placeholder: Outcome to be confirmed once the forums are delivered]


