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The City of Ballarat’s core values guide our behaviours and demonstrate what we stand for as an organisation.

It can reduce your stress levels by 68%

Events across the region are always looking for additional support. Find out more about how you can get involved.

As we all stay home to try and stop the coronavirus spread and flatten the curve, it's important to keep young minds and bodies engaged. Here are a few suggestions.

What’s important to you when it comes to Ballarat’s outdoor spaces? Is it accessibility, biodiversity or child-friendliness? Now is the time to join the conversation, because the City of Ballarat is developing a new Open Space Strategy which will guide the management and development of the municipality’s open spaces for the next 10 years.

Time capsules are usually things you’ve seen in movies. Childhood friends make a pact to be friends forever and add their treasured items to be opened in 20 years’ time. You might remember the 148-year-old time capsule that was unearthed beneath the Burke and Wills memorial in Sturt Street in May 2011, or the time capsule found at the Ballarat Base Hospital from 1935. Time capsules are a way to record the presen...

The Engaging Children in Decision Making guide was first published in 2013 as a partnership project by Melton, Brimbank, Wyndham, Maribrynong and Ballarat City Councils. Funding was received in 2023 from the Department of Education to update the guide to include Victorian Child Safe Standards, Best Start Guidelines and information, evidence, and best practice examples from the period 2013-2023.The guide is a practical resource for all professiona...

Djila-tjarriu (pronounced jilla-ja-roo) — the newly- constructed community hub in Alfredton — is already well-known for its kindergarten. However, the facility is also home to several spaces which are now open for use by the rapidly growing Alfredton community and western Ballarat suburbs.

Have you wanted to start researching your family history and find out more about your ancestors?

The Ballarat Animal Shelter is a safe haven for thousands of lost, surrendered, abandoned or mistreated animals as well as those caught up in emergency events each year.