TWO national NRMA Insurance community grants have been awarded to local projects designed to foster crime prevention in the community and sustainable resource use at Winanga-Li Aboriginal Child and Family Centre.
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NRMA Insurance representative Donald Whiteman made presentations last Thursday to Gunnedah Shire Council for its Gunny Get Your Home Secure Kit project and Winanaga-Li to help establish its new environmental awareness, recycling and sustainability program.
Mr Whiteman said the community grants program gave NRMA Insurance the opportunity to support upstanding members of the community with outstanding ideas to make their local community safer and more sustainable.
“It should be noted that Gunnedah Shire Council’s project Gunny Get Your Home Secure Kit stood out as one that will help prevent crime in Gunnedah by increasing the level of awareness an understanding among local residents of the steps that can be taken to prevent residential burglary and maximise home security.
“We are supporting Gunnedah Shire Council because we believe they will help make a difference in the area of crime prevention and we look forward to seeing some great results in the coming months,” Mr Whiteman said.
“I would also like to acknowledge Wayne Griffiths and everyone else from Winanga-Li as we celebrate the success of the centre.
“Their project ‘Feeling Clucky’, is a sustainable living project for Aboriginal and other disadvantaged children and their families – this project stood out as one that will help out local environment by demonstrating and promoting ways to reduce food and packaging waste and to educate locals on sustainable resource use and practices – we believe they will help make a difference.”
Food waste will also be used to feed the chickens, and the manure will be used to fertilise the community vegetable and herb garden, which also has a worm farm for recycling and fertiliser.
Wayne Griffiths said the NRMA grant meant a great deal to the centre, with plans under way to build a “penthouse” for the poultry and give the centre’s children an opportunity to learn about the importance of recycling in a hands-on way.
Lee McDougall, NRMA Insurance community and sustainability operations manager said there had been a fantastic response this year from community groups and the selection committee had been impressed with the great work Gunnedah Shire Council and Winanga-Li Aboriginal Child and Family Centre are doing.
“We are excited to see how the NRMA Community Grant will support both projects and the Gunnedah community,” Ms McDougall said.
“Since the program’s inception in 2003, more than 1550 projects have been supported nationally totalling an investment of more than $6.6 million in local communities.
“The program supports local organisations and projects working in the areas of crime prevention, road safety, emergency readiness and response, and the environment.”
• More information about the grants program is available by calling into the NRMA Insurance office or by visiting www.communitygrantsprogram.com.au
