The Community Hub was officially opened before a crowd of about 100 at Corstorphine Hall, in Lockerbie St, earlier this week.
The hall would host the long-term project.
The hub started after the White Paper for Vulnerable Children was released by the Government last year.
''Corstorphine has many families that are really struggling and we've got this lovely building that we've got for the next 35 years,'' Dunedin Kindergartens general manager Christine Gale said.
The Government leased Corstorphine Hall and its surrounding land to Dunedin Kindergartens when Corstorphine School was closed in 2010.
''We wanted to share it with the community.''
In Corstorphine, there were no services available and the new project would help connect the community to desired services.
The project already had feedback on desired services from about 40 Corstorphine residents and much of the demand revolved around food, such as growing a community garden, healthy eating for general wellbeing and potluck lunches.
The community were after a ''hand up'' and not a ''handout'', Ms Gale said.
A play group and indoor bowls would be held in the hall on Tuesdays and Sport Otago would hold an event on Wednesdays, she said.
The hall would be open for community feedback and ideas on Thursdays, she said.
Dunedin Kindergartens had employed David McKay as a part-time co-ordinator for the hub to oversee the hub's projects and develop and manage service providers from community feedback.
''Tell us what you need and we will see what we can do and if there's a lot of people wanting the same services then let's make that happen ... it is only going to grow. This is just the beginning.''
Mr McKay would work with Public Health South to find ways to get ''core health services'' to the Corstorphine community.
Many parents and children had to walk to Dunedin Hospital because of a lack of public transport, she said.
Dunedin Kindergartens had similar origins and had the potential to grow the same way as the new project, she said.
Presbyterian minister Rev Rutherford Waddell started Dunedin Kindergartens in 1889, in the Mission Hall in Walker St, now Carroll St, to take children off the street in the very poor areas around his church.
''That's how it started. The Walker St children were running riot and the community said: `We need to support these children and families'.''
