COMMUNITY GROUPS
To ENHANCE the role of community groups.
SENIORS
· Kaddy bus funding
· Easy Transport (provide funding and free parking for all their buses)
· Seniors’ Month funding and activities
· Training and courses (eg computer pals)
· Recognising senior and disability need in master plans eg, sufficient rest points planned
DISABILITY
· $6.4m on playground strategy to make all playgrounds all ability and inclusive
· Collaroy all ability and inclusive precinct
· Tendered out digitisation of Council records to Fighting Chance (providing real jobs for real people)
· Bush regeneration partnership with Bushlink
· Kaddy bus funding
TO STRENGTHEN OUR NEIGHBOURHOODS
· Utilised the SRG (Strategic Reference Groups) model to provide open grass root communication with Councillors and Council staff.
YOUTH
· Created a dynamic Youth Strategy (which resulted in youth from regional areas visiting to recreated in their own communities – Youth SRG
· Social Media/Online engagement - KALOF app designed by our youth for their needs. (The app created by a group of northern beaches young people won Silver at the W³ Awards from the Academy of Interactive and Visual Arts in New York.)
· Multiple Youth forums
· Youth focussed consultation
· Youth information nights
· Youth activities – band nights, arts, films, etc.
· PCYC - Youth input vital in creating a space that would be productive to their needs.
CULTURALLY DIVERSE
· Created a Multiculural Strategy to assist our culturally diverse population (28.1% of residents being born overseas)
· Warringah was home to Australia’s largest Tibetan population, however the exact numbers are difficult to measure as most have their country of origin listed as China.
· Encouraged Council’s Community and Cultural Development Grants Program with grants to the Tibetan Learning Centre and a Tibetan Children’s Camp in recent years. Through the competitive grants program, Council has contributed financially to events such as Eurofest, the Sydney Multicultural Festival and the Tibetan Losar Festival.
