Connect with your community on Neighbour Day
Published on 18 March 2025
There's no denying that life is busy, so let's make 2025 a year where we make time to create and embrace more meaningful, sustainable social connections and respectful relationships to improve health and wellbeing. Connections don’t just happen. They take effort. Often it is the small things which make a difference.
Neighbour Day, which is on Sunday 30 March 2025, is Relationships Australia’s social connection campaign that encourages people to reach out and make sustainable connections with those around them.
The Neighbour Day 2025 official theme is "Create, Share, Grow Belonging," calling on all Australians to strengthen community ties and foster a sense of belonging in their neighbourhoods and beyond.
The Neighbours Every Day 2025 campaign aims to tackle the growing issue of loneliness across Australia. Research shows that communities where people know each other have better mental health, are safer, and are more resilient. Neighbour Day is a practical and effective way to help address loneliness across our communities. Loneliness is detrimental to our overall wellbeing. Social connection and increasing sustainable respectful relationships is the key to better outcomes for individuals and communities alike.
"We can all contribute to growing belonging, whether for ourselves, our families, or our neighbours. By embracing genuine inclusion and connection, we challenge ourselves to engage with empathy and compassion. This isn’t just about one day - it’s about building a culture of connection that sustains us throughout the year," said Nick Tebbey, National Executive Officer at Relationships Australia.
Everyone in Australia is invited to participate in Neighbour Day in various ways, from hosting a BBQ to organising a street party, or simply reaching out to someone new. Every action contributes to building more resilient and supportive neighbourhoods.
Neighbour Day is the perfect opportunity to connect with your community
Local Events on Neighbour Day
A perfect way to celebrate Neighbour Day on Sunday 30 March is to wander down to Queen Street Village, Woollahra and enjoy live entertainment, food and drinks and fun family activities.
Highlights include:
Sunday March, 10am - 2pm: THE WOOLLAHRA WRITERS’ FESTIVAL
Conversations with some of Australia’s leading writers and thinkers at the Olsen Gallery, 63 Jersey Road Woollahra
Sunday 30 March, 11am - 2pm: CREATIVE CROCHET WORKSHOP WITH LUISE ELSING
Learn to crochet creatively with crochet artisan, Luise Elsing.
Admission free.
Sunday 30 March, 2.30pm: JAZZ ON THE LAWN
Afternoon jazz on the lawn at Chiswick in Ocean Street, plus Woollahra Public School P&C Cake Stall
How you can be a good neighbour on Neighbour Day (and every other day too)
- Organise a driveway dinner, drinks or dancing (in each of your driveways at the same time).
- Leave a connection card for your neighbours.
- Set up a ‘Bear Hunt’ or other observation type activity for children.
- Set up a contact / buddy program to support older neighbours.
- Chalk art / neighbourly messages on driveway / footpath or a hopscotch game!
- Create an art display in your neighbourhood.
- Help a neighbour with their garden / yard or garage clean up.
- Drop off ‘bags of hugs’ care packages; chocolates or fruit; ‘appreciation notes’; home baked goods or a meal; your contact details; flowers, spare eggs, veggies, plant cuttings, seedlings; notes / letters; activities for kids e.g. colouring in pages.
- Run an errand for a neighbour, volunteer at a local community organisation, pay it forward at a café and buy the next person’s coffee, do some ‘Random Acts of Kindness.’
- Text a nearby neighbour to check how they are feeling.
- Call a neighbour for a general chat.
- Check your contacts and call people you haven’t spoken with in more than a few months.
- Start a Facebook or Instagram or WhatsApp group to connect to your neighbours.
Host your own Neighbour Day event
Neighbour Day is a time to encourage social connections so it's a great opportunity to organise a Neighbour Day get together. Think of something your neighbours might enjoy - for example a BBQ, morning tea or some friendly games. The Neighbour Day website has lots of resources to provide ideas and inspiration for Neighbour Day local events and how to set these up.
For more information about Neighbour Day or to find an event near you, visit neighbourday.org