Homebase for the Veteran Community in Townsville

Home Base is a purpose-built, relaxing environment with plenty of opportunities to sit quietly on your own or with others to relax and chat. It is a place for the veteran community to meet and feel safe among peers and friends.

 

Our Team Oasis members staff Homebase from 0900h to 1500h on a routine basis, but the facility is available for use outside these hours upon booking and approval by the Executive Leader.

 

In fact, we don't even need to be in attendance to grant access to the huts as we send a 4-digit code to the organiser and the power, lights, and aircon go on.

 

The main constraint for activity at Home Base is that we are located in a residential area, and we respect our neighbours' peace and quiet in The Village, which, by the way, has a significant number of current serving and ex-serving veterans. 

 

Features of our Home Base include:

• Dirty Boots Café, serving our own brand of coffee, also provides catering for activities held at Home Base.

• A lounge for veterans and their partners and their friends, which includes full use of a kitchen, a BrothersNBooks Library, and a variety of private and open comfortable seating spaces.  You can relax and read a book, enjoy a board game, take advantage of the free high-speed Wi-Fi and computer library or have a brew with a mate.

• Participation in organised programs. Some activities are conducted by other organisations that 'hire for free' a hut/space, and a few are explicitly conducted by us. These are all managed by our Connections Coordinator. We are very keen to support the conduct of activities and hobbies on the premises where there is significant interest by the ex-ADF community. If you have a group that is keen to use our facilities, please email us. 

• Huts and spaces for veterans to meet, whether that is for ESO or ex-ADF association meetings, smaller, less formal groupings or just a group of mates getting together for a yarn, especially where the group involves interactions and connections with Townsville community groups. We have meeting rooms in the form of two huts that can accommodate up to 36 people in some configurations, and a larger hut (formed by joining two huts together) that can accommodate up to 60 people. All huts have:

  • large screens as computers and whiteboards,

  • WiFi and video-conferencing

  • chairs and tables in any configuration required.

• BBQ facility with 2 x electric BBQs.