The centre, formerly known as the Yackandandah Community Education Network, was officially renamed on Saturday, coinciding with the launch of Yackandandah environment group TRY.

Acting manager of Yackandandah Community Centre Ali Pockley said the centre had undergone a complete re-branding with a new look, logo and website.

“It’s a really pivotal place for the community, we provide meeting rooms free of charge to community members; we are the home of three very exciting organisations including the community op shop, Indigo FM and the toy library and it’s just one of those places where people just drop in,” she said.

“We funded it largely from the op shop which is volunteer run, YCDco gave a grant and Indigo Shire has paid for decorating.”

Chairman of the Yackandandah Community Centre Les Keeble said the changes were five years in the making.

“It looks like a home now, not just four walls and it’s great to see the young people getting on board,” Mr Keeble said.

“We have so many volunteers it’s unbelievable, it’s been an inspiration to see more people come on board.”

While the centre has brought some new-found energy to the town, TRY is hoping to do the same by making the entire town 100 per cent renewable by 2022.

TRY member Matthew Charles-Jones said the community centre was a good starting point in achieving their goal, which would be an Australian-first.

“One of the things that happened at community centre we received $55,000 in funding from the Labor state government under the Eco Living Program,” he said.

“A third of the money has been used on sustainability education programs and the other two-thirds used to improve environmental performance of the building.

“This included insulation, a water tank, LED lights and the recent installation of 6kW of solar panels and many other energy improvement measures,”

“We’ve now got our first power bill and it has dropped 75 per cent since the same time last year.”

“The leadership shown by Yackandandah Community Centre is now influencing activities across the town with carbon reduction and community building.”

More than 100 people attended the co-launch, which included guided tours of the building and an energy trailer to help people save electricity in their own home.