Neighbourhood Houses Tasmania (NHT) is the peak body for Neighbourhood and Community Houses and Centres across Tasmania. The forerunner to NHT, the Tasmanian Association of Community Houses (TACH), was formed by a group of volunteers in 1985 to collectively represent and support the work of Houses within their communities and across the state. For fifteen years, TACH was governed and run by a volunteer management committee with no recurrent funding. In 2000, the State Government acknowledged the importance of Neighbourhood Houses by providing funding for an Executive Officer. This funding has increased in recent years and now provides the equivalent of two full time positions to work in support of the 33 DHHS funded Houses & Centres and also the Defence funded community centre at Dowsing Point.