Darwin Community Banks

Darwin Community BanksŪ continue to grow and return profits to their communities. Your everyday banking can put cash into local projects.

The Coolalinga Community BankŪ was opened in September 2006 and the Nightcliff Community BankŪ followed in September 2008. Since then these banks have grown and are returning profits to their communities, supporting local charities, sports and other activities.

$36.7 million paid to local communities

A Community BankŪ branch is a locally owned and operated company, which functions as a franchise of Bendigo and Adelaide Bank.

The first community bank was opened in 1998 when Bendigo Bank partnered with the Victorian communities, Rupanyup and Minyip, to establish a local bank. There are now more than 240 Community BankŪ branches right across Australia from Alice Springs in the Northern Territory, Augusta in the West and Dover in Tasmania.

Many people will remember when the 'big 4' banks began wholesale closing of their branches during the nineties, leaving many areas without branch banking facilities. For example the ANZ closed the Rapid Creek branch and the NAB closed their Nightcliff branch.

1^st Birthday cheques for Nightcliff

The Nightcliff Community BankŪ has now returned banking facilities to the same area and the community will benefit even more because profits which previously left the area are now circulating in the local community.

The Northern Territory has Community BanksŪ at Nightcliff, Coolalinga, Katherine and Alice Springs. The Bendigo and Adelaide bank also operates a company-owned branch in Smith St Darwin, ensuring a strong banking network thoughout the NT.

Nightcliff Community Bank 40 Progress Drive Nightcliff ph 8948 4485

Coolalinga Community Bank 460 Stuart Highway Coolalinga ph 8983 4111