Community & support in Perth Central

The Perth Central Service Office for AA in Western Australia, with meetings running every day of the week across the metro and country WA. Meetings are free, anonymous and open to anyone with a desire to stop drinking; the office is staffed weekdays 9am–4.30pm and the helpline answers around the clock.

Monthly get-togethers in ordinary cafés for people living with dementia or memory loss and the people who care for them, with table games, puzzles and company. Around two dozen locations across WA, each meeting once a month.

Peer-run mutual support groups for mental wellbeing, meeting weekly for two hours followed by refreshments, with members keeping in touch between meetings. Groups run face to face around Perth and online as eGrow, and the free-call line connects you with the nearest group.

Free, volunteer-led local walking groups run under the Heart Foundation's national walking program, with groups meeting on regular weekly schedules across the Perth metro. Join online, pick a group near you, and walk — no cost, no equipment, all paces.

A long-running WA counselling organisation whose free SMART Recovery groups meet across the Perth metro, north-east metro and Wheatbelt. Sessions are peer-led and structured around practical skills — motivation, urges, weekly goals — and are open to the public with no bookings or fees.

A weekly early-morning walk or run from the Manning shops, hosted by the community organisation Befriend, finishing with coffee nearby.

A WA alcohol-and-other-drug support organisation running free recovery-focused groups across the metro — SMART Recovery meetings in Perth, Fremantle, Armadale, Thornlie and Rockingham, an online LGBTQIA+SB group, and SMART Family & Friends sessions for people supporting someone else. Most groups need no booking: just come along.

A national non-profit that organises 'tables' of eight to twelve men who share a monthly dinner and honest conversation. New members start with an Entree — a one-off dinner that shows how a table works — with WA Entrees run around Perth, including South Perth.

A social walking group that has been going for more than ten years, with 60–90 minute walks most Saturday and Sunday mornings at rotating spots around Perth, usually finishing with coffee. All fitness levels welcome — it is as much about meeting people as covering ground.

A men's book club that meets at the Hyde Park Hotel at 7pm on the first Wednesday of every month, part of a network of pub-based chapters running since 2012. One book a month, no lectures, no phones — just men talking about the book and whatever the book opens up.

A large social walking group running walks and hikes at different places around Perth each week, including a brisk Sunday-afternoon loop in Kings Park.

WA's longest-established bushwalking club, walking every Sunday: graded hills bushwalks from May to October and park and foreshore walks in the warmer months.

Day centres for people over 55 running gardening, cooking, music, arts and crafts, outings and seated sport, with programmes for people living with dementia and support for complex needs. Four centres across the metro and South West.

Council-run centres for residents over 55, with keep-fit classes, yoga, tai chi, chess, bridge and bingo, plus visiting podiatry and hairdressing and shopping excursions. Term-based rather than casual.

A registered WA charity running community art wellbeing programs — studio sessions, workshops and art and somatic experiences facilitated by peer workers alongside art and somatic therapists. They're explicit that the work complements clinical care rather than replacing it, which says a lot about how they operate.