Its head office is in Armadale, and the group provides day services to people in twelve municipalities of Melbourne, for disabilities over the full spectrum of impairment.
Inclusion Melbourne was founded in 1948 by a group of parents of children with intellectual disabilities who met informally in a small church hall in South Yarra.
[2] In that year, Queen Elizabeth II visited Prahran at a Command Variety Performance, with all the proceeds donated to Gawith Villa.
From this point, Gawith Villa aimed to ensure that people with intellectual disabilities were included in the community, rather than shut away in centres.
Gawith Villa renamed itself in 2008 to Inclusion Melbourne Inc, reflecting that it no longer provided centre-based day services.