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Council puts up $25,000 for community safety projects
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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