Our Story

The Coast Centre for Seniors began with a simple but powerful idea: older people deserve more than just care - they deserve connection, creativity, and purpose.

Back in the early 1990s, a group of geriatricians at the former Prince Henry Hospital saw firsthand how loneliness and depression were affecting older adults. So, they did something about it. They teamed up with retired hospital staff and local residents to start running community-based classes and activities inside the hospital’s empty rooms.

It worked. People showed up. They joined in. They made friends.

The energy and enthusiasm sparked something bigger, and in 1994, the Little Bay Coast Centre for Seniors officially became an incorporated not-for-profit association, with a unique Constitution.

When the hospital closed later that decade, the community fought to keep the Centre alive. They succeeded. Thanks to their determination, the Centre was granted a 99-year lease on two heritage-listed buildings. Those same spaces - once part of the old hospital - are where we continue to welcome members every day.

Today, the Coast Centre at Little Bay is open 5 days a week, with over 60 weekly activities and hundreds of members.

Each year the Centre convenes an Annual General Meeting to appoint a Public Officer and Management Committee.