About Us

Neighbourhood Watch - Creating Safer Communities

Our main aims are to improve community safety, help prevent and reduce the fear of crime. In addition to our main aim of combating crime, we also help out in other significant ways that assist our communities such as educating our community on safety awareness.

Neighbourhood Watch Ryde District (NHW Ryde) is about making sure that no one has to feel afraid, vulnerable or isolated in the place where they live. It's about people looking out for each-other - crossing barriers of age, race and class to create strong, cohesive communities that benefit everyone.

Neighbourhood Watch performs as the eyes and ears of the community assisting the NSW Police. NHW Ryde liaises with the Ryde Police Area Command through their Crime Prevention Officers based at the Gladesville Police station. It has been shown that active Neighbourhood Watch areas are far less likely to be targeted by criminals.

"Crime cannot flourish in a community that cares."

We are a not-for-profit organisation, non-party in politics, and operate an equal opportunities and non-discriminatory policy. Anybody can join regardless of their background, and membership is free. 

NHW Ryde presently covers nineteen residential areas within the City of Ryde (Eastwood, Denistone, Denistone East, West Ryde, Meadowbank, Melrose Park, Marsfield, Macquarie Park, Ryde, North Ryde, East Ryde, Putney, Putney Hill, Tennyson Point, and parts of Gladesville) as well as some eastern areas within the City of Parramatta (Eastwood, Epping).

NHW Ryde currently publishes and distributes six regional bi-monthly community newsletters to 36,600 residential households supported by an active core of over 210 resident volunteers and local business sponsors of the newsletters.

NHW Ryde was incorporated in September 2020.

If you would like to get involved with NHW Ryde then please Contact Us.