John James Village
Cancer
The John James Village in Garran stands as a purpose-built, $7 million respite accommodation facility, developed by the John James Foundation in partnership with the Leukaemia Foundation.
Our Programs
Community Infrastructure
About our projects
More than 50 years ago, our founding members came together to build Canberra’s first private hospital — not just by funding it, but in many cases with their own hands.
That spirit of dedication, compassion, and vision still runs through everything we do today.
We are deeply proud of our legacy – creating not only facilities for private medicine but also places of care and hope for those who need it most. Through the facilities we’ve built for charitable use, we’ve brought to life services that once didn’t exist – services that have profoundly changed the lives of patients and families across Canberra and beyond.
Our community infrastructure projects stand as a testament to what’s possible when compassion drives innovation: a beautiful respite village for people receiving life-saving blood cancer treatment, an early learning centre tailored to children with severe autism, and our newest endeavour – a palliative care respite facility, designed to offer people with life limiting illness a gentle, comforting space to spend final journeys surrounded by love, in a home away from home.
John James Village alone has saved patients and the health system $6.6 million, returning $7 of community benefit for every $1 spent to build it. But the real impact can’t be measured in dollars – it’s measured in moments of comfort, dignity, and care we’ve made possible for those who needed it most. That’s the legacy we are proud to carry forward.
AEIOU Autism Centre
Autism
Partnering with the AEIOU Foundation to design and construct a $5million purpose-built Autism early intervention facility, extending the John James Village precinct in Garran.
Cancer Council ACT Head Office
Cancer
Delivering a Community Infrastructure Project to the Cancer Council ACT by designing and constructing a new $1.5million purpose built Head Office in Deakin.