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Metropolitan Migrant Resource Centre

Connect, Move and Play Project

The Connect, Move and Play (CoMaP) program aims to engage people from refugee and migrant backgrounds in sport and physical activity as a means not only to improve health, but to enhance a sense of social connection and belonging. We have identified a need within CaLD communities in the City of Fremantle's who have been disconnected from the wider community and aren't participating in anything involving other communities groups so we plan on connecting communities together and making for a more inclusive wider community.

Project timeline: 15 November 2021- 01 July 2022  Grant: $4000

Propel Youth Arts WA

Youth Week WA KickstART Festival: Walyalup Day

Since 2011, the KickstART Festival has been the flagship metropolitan event for Youth Week WA and is held during the April school holidays each year. KickstART is a large-scale youth festival offering young people in WA –aged between 12 and 26 – free opportunities to be creative, develop their skills, showcase their work to the community, advocate and connect on the issues that matter to them, and to find out about the arts organisations, cultural institutions, and service providers available to them.

Project timeline: 13 April- 14 April 2022  Grant: $5,500

Fremantle Wesley Mission

Wesley Link

The Wesley Link is a drop in centre with a commercial kitchen. At present this is open twice a week to provide free hospitality to those who require tea, coffee, toast, cheese and cup of soup etc. The project is attended by a wide range of people with different ages and ethnicity. It provides a quiet place for shelter and conversation as well as refreshment. The link is run entirely by volunteers and we are constantly seeking to increase volunteer numbers to enable increasing opening times. The grant sought is specifically to assist with the provision of food supplies and some of the running costs of the link.

Project timeline: 01 October 2021- 30 September 2022  Grant: $2000

North Fremantle Social Farm

Bush Tucker Garden Planting Day

The North Fremantle Social Farm conduct a community planting day for the bush tucker garden bed, combined with a talk about bush tucker, followed by a catered meal. We will engage a local Nyungar bush tucker expert and procure catering services from a local Indigenous business. We have already identified an appropriate Nyungar expert and also two Indigenous catering businesses in the Fremantle area.

Project timeline: 01 December 2021- 31 July 2022  Grant: $2,750

Hilton Harvest Community Garden 

Noongar Language and Culture for the Buds n Blooms Program

The purpose of this project is to engage with the local Noongar Community to bring local language and culture into the program. This initiative will seek to embed Noongar seasonality, knowledge of flora and fauna, food and cycles into the weekly program, through language, song and rhyme. Through the guidance and support of the Noongar educators, we will create a series of language posters and songs for the BnB program. Language books and song books will be purchased for the program, and will be shared with the BnB and wider Hilton Harvest Community.

Project timeline: 02 February- 30 November 2022  Grant: $5000