Community Grant Recipients March 2023
Foodbank WA
Improving awareness, connection and access to Foodbank WA Healthy Eating Hub
Foodbank WA currently run the Healthy Eating Hub – a food education centre located at the James St Fremantle Sunshine Harvester space. The Healthy Eating Hub promotes community inclusiveness and engagement for a broad range of residents, offering valuable education for adults, youth, parents, people living with disability and Indigenous Groups. With this funding, Foodbank WA can enhance the space with dedicated signage and partition walls which will allow for more functional use of our space for cooking classes. Additionally, they will run a targeted social campaign that engages greater awareness of cooking programs available at The Hub. These resources will assist their ability to better connect and collaborate with community groups and individuals in need of nutrition education programs.
Grant: $4,520.00
Friends of Cantonment Hill
Four Schools Revegetate Cantonment Hill
The Friends of Cantonment Hill group protects, maintains and advocates for Cantonment Hill. The Group will buy 732 plants, wetting agent and fertilizer from APACEWA so that four local secondary school groups can plant them. The schools involved are CBC, John Curtin College of the Arts (JCCA), The Studio School and Fremantle College.
Grant: $3219.00
Global Mission United
Beach St Country Music and Games Night
Global Mission United’s purpose is to provide food, fellowship and support to those in need in Perth and overseas. They serve food at the Beach St car park on Saturday evenings. Global Mission United will run four Country Music and Games nights at the Beach St car park area during their normal service times. The organisation will provide a healthy, nutritious meal, a musician and games to play. The project aims to enhance social connectivity for Fremantle Council residents who are sleeping rough, at risk of homelessness, and/or experiencing food insecurity or loneliness. By increasing social connectedness, the mental wellbeing of this vulnerable group of people will be enhanced.
Grant: $4000
North Fremantle Social Farm
Signage – North Fremantle Social Farm
The North Fremantle Social Farm is a community farm initiative by members in North Fremantle. This project is intended to raise the profile of the North Fremantle Social Farm and to inform local residents and members of the Farm of upcoming events. An enclosed lockable, weatherproof noticeboard will be installed on the street front for posting hardcopy announcements, and four permanent signs identifying the Farm will be installed on the perimeter fence with good lines of sight to neighbouring streets. The group will also purchase two teardrop banners to be displayed on the day of events at the Farm and to be used at workshops and offsite promotional events. This initiative is part of the commitment to engage with local North Fremantle residents and the wider community to both inform and to encourage participation in activities at the Farm.
Grant: $2,431
Fremantle Park Sport & Community Centre
Fremantle Fun and Games for Autumn Years in Spring
The Fremantle Park Sport & Community Centre Centre provides sporting, social and health-promoting activities for Fremantle residents and visitors. The a Fremantle Fun and Games for Autumn Years in Spring will offer activities to improve knowledge and inspire behaviour in healthy ageing for residents of Fremantle and members of Fremantle Park Sport and Recreation Centre. Games address nutrition, personal physical activity, social physical activity, other social activity, mindfulness and meditation, altruism, skills and self-efficacy, hygiene and medical matters. A minimum of 20 activities will be offered over a 9-week period at the Centre. A regular feature will be BEA VEAYN BINGO© (pronounced Bare Vane, Manx Gaelic for Long Life), based on a traditional bingo game but with 90 images in the 8+2 healthy ageing categories, identified from peer-reviewed scientific literature and the World Health Organisation, of behaviours found to promote healthy ageing.
Grant: $5,000
Hazel Orme Community Kindergarten
Hazel Orme 100 year Jubilee Fair and Book
Hazel Orme ‘s 100 year Jubilee Fair and book will commemorate the 100th year of the Kindergarten in 2023. The book will be authored by an artist connected with the kindergarten and the story authored by two parents of children at the kindergarten. The book will be created through community workshops open to all children aged 4-5 in the City of Fremantle and their parents. The Kindergarten will celebrate the 100 year Jubilee with a community fair on the grounds and engaging local food providers and musicians. They also plan to hold a similar activation at the City of Fremantle library.
Grant: $5,000