The Home Ground Hub pitch in Collingwood with the housing tower rising behind it

Home Ground Hub · City of Yarra

On this week — six free sessions

EVERY KIDDESERVES AHOME GROUND.

Sport. Community. Opportunity. Home Ground Hub helps children and young people across Yarra get involved, stay connected and discover what comes next.

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Richmond · Collingwood · FitzroyFree + low-cost programsSoccer · Futsal · BasketballCamps every school holidaysAll welcomeEst. 2005

What we do

We help local kids
get in the game.

Home Ground Hub works with children, young people and families across Yarra. We run sport, camps, community activities and opportunities that give young people somewhere to play, people to connect with and room to grow.

Girls chasing the ball in a match on the estate pitch

PLAY.

Soccer, futsal and basketball, every week.

Kids with their arms around each other, laughing after a game

BELONG.

Coaches and mates who know your name.

EXPERIENCE.

Camps, tournaments and firsts.

A young coach standing with his squad before a game

GROW.

Mentoring and leadership pathways.

Kids playing around an inflatable pitch at a Home Ground Hub community day

90 seconds at Home Ground

Film coming — shot by community volunteers

Around here

Twenty years of
showing up.

20+

years of community-based work

500+

unique participants supported every year

15,000+

total participants every year

300,000+

total participants since 2005

Richmond · Collingwood · Fitzroy — free and low-cost sport and community programs

A group of kids running and laughing together on the pitch

Keep Home Ground moving

Help keep
them playing.

Programs like these happen because people decide they're worth backing. Your support helps Home Ground Hub keep sport, camps, activities and opportunities accessible to local young people.

Helps keep weekly soccer, futsal and basketball free to turn up to.

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What's on

What's on
at Home Ground?

Games. Camps. Community days. And plenty in between.

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ON EVERY WEEK

Recently at Home Ground

Past event

Challenge Cup #51

Richmond11am – 4pm

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Past event

Play Her — monthly session

City of Yarra

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Programs

There's a lot
going on.

All programs

A large group of young players together on the estate pitch between games

Free

YES Programs

Free weekly sport on and around Yarra's housing estates.

Collingwood, Fitzroy and Richmond5–18 years (varies by session)

COME PLAY

A young person in a climbing helmet smiles upward while abseiling at Toolangi Adventure Sports Camp

Adventure Camps

School-holiday sports camps in the Toolangi forest.

Toolangi campsite, about one hour from FitzroyTeenagers; young leaders 18–25

A junior futsal team in yellow jerseys smiles from the bench at a Challenge Cup tournament

Challenge Cups

Yarra's quarterly futsal tournament, across four divisions.

City of YarraDivisions from 5 up: girls 5–8 and 9–12, boys 5–9 and 10–13, seniors 14+

FIND OUT MORE

The scrapbook

Home Ground
lately.

A big group of kids in Home Ground Hub and Collingwood All Stars jerseys pulling faces for the camera, housing tower behind — THE WHOLE CREWCollingwood

The estate pitch with the housing tower rising behind it — HOME GROUNDCollingwood

Three girls in Home Ground Hub jerseys posing together — READYCollingwood

Silver trophies lined up beside a young player — SILVERWARETournament day

A young player in a Fitzroy jersey looking straight at the camera — FITZROYTournament day

A line of girls arm in arm, smiling on an indoor soccer court — GIRLS' PROGRAMCity of Yarra

Get involved

Got something
to give?

Not only money. Maybe it's an hour. A skill. A camera. A van. A connection. A Saturday morning. A business. An idea.

REC · every Saturday somewhere in Yarra

Bring
your camera.

Photographer? Videographer? Editor? Content creator? Come spend a day with Home Ground Hub and help us capture the moments that make this place what it is.

Shoot with us

Two young players hug in front of a wall of participants' name tags — FR·01

Start Something

Got an idea?

Let's see where it could go.

Maybe you want to start a lawn-mowing business. Sell clothes. Run a market stall. Make videos. Build a website. Start something for your community.

You don't need a business plan. You don't need to know all the answers. Tell us what you're thinking and we'll see if someone in the Home Ground community can help.

Start something

01 — TELL US
02 — WE FIND SOMEONE
03 — HAVE A CHAT
04 — SEE WHERE IT GOES

Phu Nguyen · Yarra Futsal Ballers

People make the place

Phu first came through as a participant in Yarra's public housing programs.

He kept showing up. These days he's President of Yarra Futsal Ballers and sits on the Home Ground Hub board — building the same opportunities he grew up with, for the next generation.

In 2024 the City of Yarra named him Young Citizen of the Year, for making sport accessible to young people across Collingwood, Fitzroy and Richmond.

Join the
home team.

Football happens every week. Homework Club happens every week. Community doesn't happen once. Regular donations help Home Ground Hub plan ahead and keep programs going.

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