Narembeen Community Resource Centre
Community Service in Narembeen

To engage and provide relevant services for the local community the narembeen community resource centre is a friendly, tourism and visitor information, access to training, community centre equipped with high tech facilities, local, government services and information. Our vision is to provide a friendly, vibrant and viable community resource centre that values the presence, ideas and contribution of the community and develops ownership in narembeen's future. This modern, spacious building provides fantastic facilities to visitors and the general public. We are located in the heart of town on churchill street, next to the narembeen pharmacy, cafe and doctors surgery. We are dedicated to providing a number one service to visitors and the community and we work to develop opportunities for young people, community and sporting groups, businesses, families, women, the elderly and farmers residing in and around narembeen.

The well recognized IRE Agricultural Worldwide is also located in the town. The Medical center is supported by a Dentist and District Hospital which provides services in ante post natal care, emergency, geriatric, medical acute, medical general, pediatrics and palliative care. It also hosts visiting primary health services including an occupational therapist, physiotherapist, counselors and a podiatrist. It has a lengthy history of both academic and sporting triumph and continues to yield quality results in both national and state testing. The Narembeen ARC provides capacity building specifically in education and training, access to information technology, graphic design, secretarial support, visitor information, community group support, venue hire, unemployment services, event management, business and community development. We labor to combat issues faced by the community to further develop opportunities for our youth, women, families, businesses, community and supporting groups and the elderly. To produce a friendly, vibrant and viable Community Resource center that values the presence, ideas and contribution of the community and develops their ownership in Narembeen’s future.

Narembeen must be the only town in Australia to reach into existence completely so a pub could be built. In the 1850s a scanty European settlers moved into the area. The only other Europeans in the area at this time were the tenacious sandalwood cutters who passed through looking for the prized wood. The complete area was sparsely populated until the first of the twentieth century when land was opened up and farmers moved in to graze sheep and grow wheat on their insignificant 100 acres (about 405 ha) holdings. The area around Emu Hill and Narembeen was surveyed in 1910. As slow as 1917 the township of Narembeen did not exist and even in 1920, behind the arrival of the railway line, it was nothing more than a siding for Emu Hill. In 1920 Emu Hill was the largest center but the local community, when confronted with the possibility of building a hotel, opposed the plan and suggested a coffee palace or temperance hotel. The idea of creating a town at the Narembeen siding was the brainchild of a prominent Perth lawyer, Henry Hale, and a Perth publican, Paddy Connolly. When the men realized the problems that were being created by the teetotal community at Emu Hill they purchased 30 acres (about 12 ha) of land at Narembeen, old their persuade with the local politicians, got permission to build a pub and then sold off the rest of the land to prospective residents of their private town’. The pub, which still stands today, was all that was needed to overwhelm the struggling nearby settlements and become the center for the total area.