The Welcome Experience
Helping essential workers relocate, settle in and become one of the locals.
What is the Welcome Experience?
The Welcome Experience is designed to facilitate, attract, prepare and welcome essential workers to regional, rural and remote NSW.
The program matches and connects new essential workers with local people and resources to help them settle in and feel at home in their new community faster. When people feel part of the community they live in, they have a better lifestyle experience helping them to stay in communities longer.
The Welcome Experience will support new essential workers to create their connection to community and their new home quickly and smoothly, helping to keep essential workers and their families in regional towns longer, delivering frontline services and building stronger communities.
Our organisation operates The Welcome Experience in Goulburn. The Welcome Experience in Goulburn connects you and your family with local people and local resources to help you settle in and feel at home in your new community faster.
To get in contact with our local connector, please email welcome@rdasna.org.au.
What can we help with?
As a host organisation we can provide support with relocation and integration into the Goulburn Mulwaree region – everything from the practicalities of finding a place to stay, to choosing care and education, and being connected to local groups and organisations.
Who is Eligible?
The Welcome Experience is exclusively available to essential workers from the following organisations:
NSW Health
NSW Department of Education
NSW Police Force
Fire and Rescue NSW
NSW Department of Education
Department of Communities and Justice
Non-NSW Government health professionals (e.g., allied health, aged care, dentist, disability care, GP)
Non-NSW Government education agencies (e.g., early childhood, tertiary education)
The Welcome Kit
The Welcome Kit and the information and resources within, along with your Welcome Experience Project Officer will help newly-arrived workers and their families make great connections and lasting relationships in Goulburn.
What’s in the kit?
Your Cultural Welcome
Local Connector contact details
Quick links to local services and notice boards
What’s on in Goulburn
Places and groups to meet people.
To get in contact with our local connector, please email welcome@rdasna.org.au.
Media
On the 31st of January, Premier Chris Minns came to Goulburn to announce the launch of the Make the Move campaign, of which The Welcome Experience is a key component. Minister for Regional NSW, Tara Moriarty and Firefighter, Jason McPherson, one of the Make the Move case studies, were with him.
Here is the first launch video for The Welcome Experience, showing all eight locations of The Welcome Experience – Bega, Broken Hill, Coffs Harbour, Corowa, Goulburn, Griffith, Muswellbrook and Walgett.
Firefighter and casual teacher, Jason shows a snapshot of what moving regionally could mean for you and your family. More space, opportunities, and time.
Watch the ad campaign for The Welcome Experience staring Fidelis, a Child Protection Social Worker who moved to Goulburn in 2019.
It’s Your Move
Regional Australia Institute (RAI) is leading a national conversation with regionally-curious city Australians about the job and career opportunities in our regions. As part of Move To More, It’s Your Move is Australia’s biggest ever recruitment drive and is in direct response to current jobs and skills challenges.
It’s Your Move promotes the well-paid careers on offer in Regional Australia outside the cities and is supported by RAI members partners: the Regional Australia Council; the Regional Activators Alliance and the National Alliance for Regionalisation.
