News Release
Monday 22 August 2011
Council puts up $25,000 for community safety projects
ROTORUA 22.08.11: Rotorua District Council (RDC) is inviting applications to its Community Safety Projects Fund for the
2011/12 year.
Up to $25,000 is being made available by the council for community group projects that have a positive impact on
community safety and crime within the Rotorua district.
RDC community safety projects officer Amy Duckett says the purpose of the Community Safety Projects Fund is to provide
local not-for-profit organisations with funding assistance to help them implement programmes that will reduce or prevent
crime, enhance positive perceptions of safety in the community, or better equip an organisation to carry out these
activities.
“The council wants to encourage more projects to be initiated by the community and for the community,” she says.
Funding applications will be reviewed by the council’s Community Safety Fund subcommittee comprising district
councillors, a local police representative, a youth councillor, and a member of the Te Arawa Standing Committee.
Among last year’s successful applicants were Western Heights Community Association for Project Guardian, which involves
regular patrols reporting truancy, burglaries, wilful damage and tourist related crimes, and Western Heights Community
Association for CACTUS (Combined Adolescent Training Unit and Support), an intensive physical training programme
developed from the armed forces and targeting local high school students.
Others organisations to receive money from the Community safety projects Fund last year were the Sexual Abuse Centre for
its Say No to Sexual Abuse project; Mahi Kai Outdoor Education Trust to run school holiday programmes for local young
people; and Rotorua Multicultural Business Society, to create resources for local migrant business owners on dealing
with difficult or aggressive customers.
Applications for this years fund close at 4pm, Friday 7 October 2011. Applicants are required to meet with Amy Duckett
at Rotorua District Council prior to submitting an application, and will also need to be available for a meeting with
the fund subcommittee in late October.
Application forms and detailed criteria are available online from the RDC website www.rdc.govt.nz.
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