Community
WestFootscray Neighbourhood House.
3012 house above the library. Reception dies at 3.
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What people get wrong
Level 1, 539 Barkly, West Footscray 3012. Library hours differ (Mon-Fri 10am-6pm, Sat 10am-2pm). Angliss on Vipont is the 3011 house. Email enquiries@wfnh.org.au. Bus 220. About 10-15 minutes from West Footscray station. We last walked this on 2026-09-21. Hours move with the week. Checking the shopfront keeps the night easy.
What is West Footscray Neighbourhood House known for?
West Footscray Neighbourhood House is known as the Level 1 house: English and computers, a pantry, childcare, a kitchen that is not the library desk downstairs.
You get off at West Footscray station, not the market, and you walk Barkly to 539. The glass still reads Library and Neighbourhood House. Inside, upstairs, it is a not-for-profit house established in 1989, volunteer-run in a four-bedroom Barkly house before the 2006 move above the library. McDougall and Sons finished the Community Learning Centre precinct in 2012. Phone (03) 9687 3345. Email enquiries@wfnh.org.au. Site wfnh.org.au. Manager Trishia Barclay sits on the about page. Interpreters: ask when you book. That is the door, not Angliss at Unit 2/11 Vipont, 3011, and not cohealth at 575A.
This is not the library catalogue. This is not Centrelink. This is not Whitten Oval. This is not Dosa Hut. This is not a cafe. Childcare is listed for 1 to 5 years, Monday to Friday, five-hour sessions. Room hire sits on the house page, including after hours. Toy library still printed CLOSED 20 June 2026 due to staff sickness the day we fetched. That notice may be leftover. Call before you treat a toy borrow as a reason to climb the stairs.
You came because the class said West Footscray, or because a friend needed English without a VU letter, and because a parent who walked Vipont with a 3012 offer is how a morning dies. Two houses. Two postcodes. Confirm which house offered the class. Stay on Level 1. The Community Learning Centre door is the tell. A Saturday library bag is not a house appointment. Reception already closed Friday at 3. The kitchen upstairs will make tea. It will not enrol you in AMEP. It will not take a Centrelink letter as a class offer.
What should you bring to West Footscray Neighbourhood House?
You should bring ID, then concession evidence, then the class or pantry name you were offered.
Reception closes 3pm. Do not arrive at 3:15 with a library bag and expect house staff. If you needed 3011 English, Angliss on Vipont. If you needed AMEP, not this house and not AMES Albert. If you needed SEE, Navitas at VU Nicholson Building D. If you needed a GP, cohealth at 575A Barkly. If you needed a match, Whitten Oval. If you needed dosa, 604 Barkly. Three neighbours. Three jobs.
Stay long enough to match West Footscray Neighbourhood House on the intake, not only the library sign. Street parking on Barkly is short. Bus 220. About 10-15 minutes from West Footscray station. This is not Irving market parking and not Albert plaza. After a late train stay on lit Barkly. This house is not a night desk unless you booked a hired room they named.
Bring the question. Fees follow Learn Local and house rules. Confirm at intake. After hours this reception is closed. GenWest and 000 are other jobs. Do not invent a Saturday house clock because the library prints Saturday 10am to 2pm. Two clocks in one precinct.
Hours, tickets and queues at West Footscray Neighbourhood House
Quoted reception from the house site: Monday to Friday 9am to 3pm. Call (03) 9687 3345. Last checked 2026-09-21. Class times differ. Glance at the glass.
Prior civic card also printed childcare 9:15am to 2:15pm and pantry 10am to 2pm weekdays. Confirm those windows when you book. Public holidays shuffle. Library hours stay separate: Monday to Friday 10am to 6pm, Saturday 10am to 2pm on the leftover library card. Do not book a house class against the Saturday library window unless the house said so.
The house now prints a reception clock. Class lists still need a phone check. A 3:05pm weekday dad is already too late. The library downstairs may still be open. That is a different queue.
How do you get to West Footscray Neighbourhood House in West Footscray?
You get to West Footscray Neighbourhood House by taking West Footscray station, then walking Barkly to 539, Level 1, a 3012 house, not Vipont and not the market station.
Bus 220 if you already knew it. Street parking is short. After dark Barkly in 3012 is still the lit spine. Side streets are quieter. Leave toward Barkly lights. Do this in daylight on a weekday unless the hire letter said otherwise.
If you wanted Angliss, Vipont, 3011. If you wanted cohealth, 575A Barkly. If you wanted council, 61 Napier. If you wanted AMES, 37 Albert. If you wanted the oval, Whitten. This listing is Level 1, 539 Barkly, 3012 only. A 406 that dumps you at VU Park is the hospital edge, a different job. Walk Barkly in 3012 if the house is the job. Drive Geelong Road if the chest is the job. Do not mash them because both say Footscray.
What do people mix up about West Footscray Neighbourhood House?
They walk into the library, or they travel to Angliss, or they treat Saturday as a house day, and they miss a Level 1 reception that still wants 539 Barkly and a 3pm close.
- Level 1, 539 Barkly Street, West Footscray VIC 3012 only.
- Reception Monday to Friday 9am-3pm. Class times differ.
- Phone (03) 9687 3345. Email enquiries@wfnh.org.au.
- Library hours are a different clock. Do not mix the queues.
- Angliss on Vipont is the 3011 house, not this Level 1.
Questions people ask next
- Where is West Footscray Neighbourhood House?
- Level 1, 539 Barkly Street, West Footscray VIC 3012, in the Community Learning Centre with the library. West Footscray station, then about 10-15 minutes, or bus 220. Not Angliss on Vipont.
- What are West Footscray Neighbourhood House hours?
- Reception Monday to Friday 9am-3pm on the house site. Prior card also printed childcare 9:15am-2:15pm and pantry 10am-2pm weekdays. Class times differ. Call (03) 9687 3345. Last checked 2026-09-21.
- Are house hours the same as West Footscray Library?
- No. The library is listed Monday to Friday 10am-6pm and Saturday 10am-2pm. House reception closes 3pm weekdays. Two clocks in one precinct. Match the house name.
- Is this the same as Angliss Neighbourhood House?
- No. This is 3012 on Barkly. Angliss is Unit 2/11 Vipont, Footscray 3011. Confirm which house offered the class before you travel.
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