Positive Memory Bank - Berry Street

3. Quantitative Data
3.1 General
Applications were invited from individuals
and from groups. The characteristics of the
groups which applied were hard to track,
because in many cases the group of young
people who applied did not end up being the
same as the group who then participated in
the activity. This may have been the result
of multiple factors including natural
attrition in the time lapse between
application and opportunity, or applications
being developed on a program basis and the
group within the program changing over
time.
Among the applications submitted
by
individuals 39 were from female applicants
and 25 from male applicants.
Applicants were invited to self-identify their
cultural identity if it was anything other
than Anglo-Australian. Australian. Between the first and
third application rounds applications from
non-Anglo-Australians Australians increased from 20% to
28%. Applicants identifying as Indigenous
stayed static in the first and second round,
but doubled in the third round.
The following list is drawn from both the
individual and group applications and covers
all three rounds. The figures represent the
total number of young people in each
cultural group
across all three Giving
Rounds.
• Aboriginal/Indigenous/Koori – 8
• Sudanese/Dinka - 3
• Macedonian - 3
• New Zealanders – 2
• Lebanese, Australian-Italian, Italian,
Greek, Syrian and Ethiopian – 1 each
Applications came from all the Berry Street
practice Groups. The table below shows the
number of applications received from each
group, across all three application rounds
and includes those withdrawn before or
after the Giving Group met.
Application by Group
24
21
15
6
7
Hume
North West Southern Gippsland Take Two
(Therpeutic)
The first application round received ten
applications. The second saw an increase of
60% (total 16 applications) and the third saw
an overall increase of almost 300% from the
second round and 470% from the first (47
applications in total).
This volume of increase in applications was
completely un-expected. . It was observed
that more applicants and support workers
were contacting the PMB project manager
for advice before submission, but this
communication alone did not indicate the
sharp increase in application numbers.
The impact was also seen in the quantity of
funding available and requested. In the first
round just over $9,000 was requested. The
second saw requests totalling $14,500 and
the third round, $43,000.
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