Organisation

Project

Amount

Description

Police and Community Youth Club (PCYC) Burnie

Kids Workshop

$4,830

A project for 9 to 12 year olds with social and behavioural difficulties to work with community mentors on carpentry and other related manual tasks in a workshop environment. The programme also incorporates mainstream learning outcomes, including numeracy and literacy as well as life skills, into practical applications.

Stella Maris Parents and Friends

Bully Busting

$4,520

The project is a series of parent facilitated workshops to raise awareness of bullying, the causes and consequences, and the shared role families have in supporting children. Existing policies and practices would also be reviewed.

Co-housing Cooperative

Car Park Safety

$3,289

To provide better security in the car parking area of the Co-housing Cooperative by installing CCTV.

Colony 47 Inc

Eureka Housing Safety

$4,950

This project aims to reduce the impact of anti-social behaviour and property theft and damage on a group of residents in a low-income, mental health housing programme, by installing security cameras in the car park and access way and placing steering wheel locks on the cars.

Sexual Assault Support Service Inc

Electronic White Board with Mobile Stand

$2,673

This project would enable the purchase of an electronic whiteboard which copies in colour, scans data, saves to file, connects to computer and USB port. Having this ability will improve SASS’s ability to train community professionals such as lawyers, doctors and police, which in turn has the capacity to have improved outcomes for victims of sexual assault.

Catholic Archdiocese of Hobart (John Paul II Catholic Church)

Security Lighting and Fencing

$5,000

John Paul II Church and Community Centre is located in an area with a high incidence of vandalism to the building and parked cars. Security lighting and some fencing would be a deterrent and some strategically-placed fencing would assist in crime prevention.

Huon Stronger Communities Committee

Gearing Up

$5,000

This project purchases a vehicle in order to teach disadvantaged young people to gain their 50 hours of supervised driving with the aid of a volunteer. The Huon Stronger Communities Committee has identified that many young people are driving around unlicensed.

Mount Rumney Landcare Group Inc

Safer Mountain

$3,283

This project would aim to eliminate or minimise the amount of vandalism to vital communication facilities and to rural householders by illicit drug taking, dumping of rubbish/car bodies and trashing of the local environment on the Mount Rumney Recreation Reserve. The installation of a CCTV system would provide a surveillance function that may deter people from committing these offences at the entrance to the sole access road.

Tasmanian Canine Defence League (TCDL)

Dogs' Homes CCTV Project

$5,000

We aim to install CCTV in three dogs homes to ensure the safety of the dogs when staff are not on duty and the security and safety of staff.

Catholic Archdiocese of Hobart (West Coast Parish)

St Josephs Catholic Church Security and Fire Protection

$2,214

This project will provide the historic Queenstown Building (1898), listed under the Tasmanian Heritage Register, with a suitable electronic security and fire alarm system so as to offer greater protection to the building against possible vandalism, break-ins, early fire protection and theft of items of property.

St Helens District High School Association

Pool Safe For All

$5,000

To allow students from low socio-economic families access to daily swimming in the school swimming pool during school holidays with a qualified lifeguard. This will help prevent the need for local police and school staff to attend to students unlawfully entering the school pool and change rooms during school holiday periods.