Inner Sydney is dense, expensive and vertical. A lot of the people we support live in apartments or narrow terraces where a stair lift is not an option and the nearest parking is two streets away, and those constraints shape a support shift far more than the suburb name does.
What that means for support here
We keep workers local to a corridor rather than a whole city, because crossing Sydney twice in a shift is how support becomes unreliable. Public transport is genuinely usable here, so travel training and getting out independently are a bigger part of the work than they are in most of the places we operate.
Travel and reach
We keep workers inside a corridor rather than sending them across the city, because a shift that depends on a cross-harbour commute is a shift that fails in the first month of bad traffic. The inner west, the east and the lower north shore are staffed as separate pockets.
Suburbs we cover
Surry Hills
Newtown
Marrickville
Leichhardt
Randwick
Bondi
Maroubra
Ashfield
Burwood
North Sydney
Chatswood
Balmain
Not on the list? It is not a no. Ring and ask, and we will check the roster rather than guess.
Support available here
Every Grove service runs across this area. Which ones your funding covers is the separate question.
The inner city, inner west, eastern suburbs and the lower north shore, with separate teams for the west and south west. Tell us your suburb and we will tell you which team you sit with.
Parking near me is impossible. How does that work?
It is a normal inner Sydney problem. Sometimes it means a permit or a spot arranged with the building, and sometimes it means rostering a worker who comes by train. We sort it before the first shift.
My building has stairs and no lift. Does that rule anything out?
No, but tell us before the first shift. Inner Sydney terraces and walk-up flats are everywhere here, and knowing there are two flights and a narrow landing changes who we roster rather than whether we can help.
Talk to someone who knows Sydney
Tell us your street and what is hard at the moment. We will tell you what we can staff there, and when.