Prace Strategic and Operational Plan 2026-2030
The plan reflects a shared commitment to empowerment through education, lifelong learning, equity, and sustainability – ensuring that every learner, staff member, and community partner can thrive in a supportive and forward-thinking environment. It brings together the overarching goals of Prace with the distinct but aligned focus of Prace College, ensuring that both organisations continue to deliver inclusive, transformative education and community engagement opportunities.
Vision, focus and philosophy
Our vision
Changing lives through education.
To provide transformative education that empowers individuals and communities with the knowledge, skills, and confidence needed to thrive, belong, and contribute meaningfully to society.
Our focus
Through accessible learning, community participation, and work opportunities that build skills, confidence, and hope, Prace shapes the community of tomorrow, breaks cycles of disadvantage, and enables people to improve their quality of life.
Our philosophy
Education has the power to transform lives.
Prace and Prace College share a belief that every person, regardless of circumstance, deserves access to meaningful education and opportunities for participation. We recognise that wellbeing, social connection, and a sense of belonging are fundamental to learning success.
Strategic priorities for 2026-2030
- Prace will value and support all people who engage with us as students, volunteers, staff and partners by
- Maintaining a warm, safe and supportive environment in which to study and work and fostering a welcoming organisational culture that creates a sense of belonging and supports participation
- Valuing diversity and difference, knowing these enhance all that we do
- Investing in the recruitment and retention of the best possible staff and volunteers
- Ensuring any organisational growth is matched by activities to foster integration across program areas so all feel a part of Prace
- Prace will design and deliver programs, services and opportunities to meet people’s education and training needs and support full participation in our society by
- Delivering best practice education and training programs
- Building capacity for labour force participation and full citizenship engagement
- Providing opportunities to participate in and connect with community through work, volunteering, recreation and leisure activities
- Prace will anticipate and respond to changing education and training needs and aspirations, and labour market opportunities and challenges by
- Undertaking research, evaluation and consultation to assess community needs, and population and regional changes
- Building strategic partnerships with others to respond to emerging challenges and changing needs
- Investing in relationship building and lobbying within the sector, with partner organisations and with governments to advocate for appropriate responses to address identified issues
- Prace will effectively and efficiently manage and grow our funds and resources towards a sustainable future for Prace by
- Ensuring funding matches delivery, administration and infrastructure needs within the framework of this Strategic Plan
- Increasing the breadth and diversity of our funding sources
- Building strong management, administrative and governance systems and processes, and maintaining an outstanding reputation for meeting compliance and accountability requirements
- Engaging in succession planning at all levels, Board, management, and staffing