PERTH · Community & Support
Wellness with other people in the room.
Explore free or by-donation community & support across Perth, compare the details and choose somewhere that suits your day.
Specialists in community & support — 9 Also offering community & support — 1
10 places · 8 suburbs · 3 online or hybrid options
Pick one or several — each number is how many places here offer it.
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.
A volunteer-run meditation centre teaching Raja Yoga meditation through free introductory courses, public talks and workshops, with an ongoing Thursday evening class for those who have completed the intro course. All courses, classes and retreats are offered free of charge.
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 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 Fremantle-based men's collective that meets outdoors rather than in a room: monthly trail hikes in John Forrest National Park and Ellis Brook Valley, beach meetups at Trigg, walks around Lake Monger, and a Brazilian jiu jitsu session they call Warrior Flow. Most events are free, with occasional charity runs taking donations. Joining happens through their WhatsApp group.
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 free morning run and walk club that meets on the grass opposite il Lido at Cottesloe: Fridays at 6am, every second Sunday at 7am, and the last Wednesday of the month at 5.30pm. Groups head out for fifteen to thirty minutes and turn back, so the distance suits whoever turns up, and walkers and dogs are as welcome as runners. The monthly evening session finishes with dinner.
10 of the 24 community & support listings in the directory match this view. The count is live, and the order puts specialists first — paid placement never moves anyone up it.
As of October 2026, 10 of the 24 Community & Support listings on Oria Haven are in this view (Perth) — counted live from the directory.
9 of these specialise in community & support — it is their main focus. The other 1 list it among other things they offer.
Every listing is hand-checked by Oria Haven. Figures updated 8 October 2026.
Most relevant means practices that specialise in this first, then the ones with the most reviews to go on. A listing that publishes its price, describes itself and names its services gets a small nudge, never more than a quarter of a star, because you can decide on it without ringing. Paid placements are shown once, in their own band, and never move anyone up the list.
The guide
Most of what’s on this page costs nothing. Peer support groups, recovery meetings, walking groups and community circles run on volunteers, donations or small term fees, and several of the organisations listed have operated in Perth for decades.
The formats differ in ways worth knowing before you walk in. Open meetings admit anyone, including people just wanting to see what happens; closed meetings are for people who identify with the group’s purpose. Peer-led groups are run by people with their own experience of the thing the group is about; facilitated groups have a trained convenor. Men’s groups and women’s circles tend to run as ongoing series where the same people return each month, so joining is easier at the start of a term.
One practical warning: meeting times and venues in this category change more often than any other part of the directory, and church halls and community centres get rebooked at short notice. Ring or check the organisation’s own page before you drive across town.
Related: peer support groups, recovery meetings, wellness meetups, and free sessions around the metro.
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