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Voice for SONG

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Many small organisations are doing great work in their local communities creating innovations and models that are little known in the broader media. A collaboration of workers formed in 2005 to do something about this. Calling themselves Voice for SONG (Small Organisations Non-Government), they set about promoting the innovations and flexibility of smaller structures, the added value of local knowledge and networks and importance of maintaining a diverse community sector. In challenging narrow notions of ‘efficiency’ and promoting the value of small community organisations, SONG members focus on bringing about attitudinal and cultural change. Vist Bridges website for information about Voice for SONG history.

Central to SONG philosophy is the premises that small locally based community organisations play an integral role in the building and maintenance of healthy democratic local communities.

Western Sydney Community Forum Executive Officer Mary Waterford is a long-term member of the SONG coalition and WSCF provide leadership and secretariat support to the on-going work.

Mary just prepared an article to be published on the Community Management magazine.

Download Draft Here (PDF 86KB)

Related Publications

Voice for SONG

This issues paper has been produced by a network of individuals and small community organisations.  It has a NSW perspective but the issues highlighted are global issues and illustrates why small community organisations are valuable. It describes some of the impacts on their wellbeing and some recommendations to address these impacts.

This paper introduces Voice for SONG and its ideas for moving forward to increase awareness of the value of small community organisations and increase cooperation between small community organisations, large non-government organisations (NGOs), government, business and the general community.  It describes the collaborative and complementary role of Voice for SONG in relation to peak bodies (bodies that represent community sector organisations).

Download this paper (PDF 263KB)

Think Local

This is a new WSCF and Voice For SONG partnership publication.

Why are local community organisations important to healthy democratic communities? Think Local is a short dynamic encapsulation of our values – an essential resource for every community worker and management committee member. The Booklet identifies the many attributes of local small organisations, their contribution to social capital and financial economies and current opportunities for local organisations. It ask us to record the stories of some of the innovative work we do to add to the rich body of evidence of the importance of our work.

Click here to download (PDF 226KB)

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