Burnie Works is a collective impact initiative contributing to positive change in the areas of education, employment, justice, child youth families and wellbeing.  It is place-based work that has emerged from issues and opportunities identified in the pataway / Burnie community and enables action with a large cast of stakeholders through working groups and community projects. In Burnie, the key stakeholders come from the focus areas and are both govt and NGO representatives, local industry, palawa and others with lived experience.

Burnie Works has a collaboration agreement with the Australian Government, Department of Social Services, Department of Communities Tasmania, Burnie City Council, Beacon Foundation and the University of Tasmania. 

Burnie Works has a Local Enabling Group, a systems leader and a backbone team made up of project officer, understanding measurement evaluation and learning officer, communication and community engagement officer and administration officer.  The collective impact initiative is funded by Stronger Places, Stronger People – implemented by the Australian Government, Department of Social Services in partnership with state and territory governments and 10 communities across Australia.  The longer term goal of Stronger Places, Stronger People is to interrupt the intergenerational cycle of disadvantage that is concentrated in particular communities around Australia, including Burnie in North West Tasmania.