Pittwater Life May 2023 Issue
NORTH NARRA PRO SURFING ELECTION WASH-UP: AMON, SCRUBY & REGAN HAVE THEIR SAY MONA VALE AQUATIC RESERVE PUSH / CAROL LANGSFORD THE WAY WE WERE / HOT PROPERTY / SEEN... HEARD... ABSURD...
NORTH NARRA PRO SURFING
ELECTION WASH-UP: AMON, SCRUBY & REGAN HAVE THEIR SAY
MONA VALE AQUATIC RESERVE PUSH / CAROL LANGSFORD
THE WAY WE WERE / HOT PROPERTY / SEEN... HEARD... ABSURD...
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Health & Wellbeing<br />
Relief as funding cuts<br />
Health & Wellbeing<br />
Three major local<br />
charities will continue<br />
to receive Council<br />
funding at existing levels over<br />
the next three years after a<br />
previous decision to gradually<br />
cut their financial assistance<br />
and review future allocations<br />
was reversed.<br />
Community Northern<br />
Beaches, Avalon Youth<br />
Hub and Northern Beaches<br />
Women’s Shelter were each<br />
facing a total reduction of<br />
their funding over the next<br />
three years after councillors<br />
voted in March to support<br />
a resolution to phase out<br />
existing arrangements<br />
totalling $250,000 and<br />
redistribute the funds to an<br />
expanded grants program<br />
which would be open to all<br />
charities.<br />
The motion was reversed at<br />
Council’s meeting in April – to<br />
the relief of representatives<br />
of the major charities who<br />
thanked the community for<br />
the outpouring of support<br />
and advocacy.<br />
Lead agency for the Avalon<br />
Youth Hub is The Burdekin<br />
Association; CEO Justene<br />
Gordon said while she<br />
welcomed the funding, she<br />
was surprised Councillors<br />
had completely reversed the<br />
decision.<br />
“Council has invested a lot<br />
of time into reviewing their<br />
grants program and the need<br />
for a more transparent and<br />
equitable way to manage that<br />
program,” she said.<br />
“While there is merit in<br />
their need to do that, there<br />
also needs to be a deeper<br />
understanding about the<br />
needs and the gaps in the<br />
community.<br />
“Grant funding should be<br />
targeted, and I think there<br />
are a number of services that<br />
QUESTION: Who is responsible for<br />
<strong>Pittwater</strong>, asks Burdekin Association<br />
CEO Justene Gordon.<br />
should have an opportunity<br />
to apply for funding where<br />
there are needs and gaps.”<br />
The Avalon Youth Hub was<br />
established five years ago to<br />
provide access to free local<br />
PHOTO: NB Advocate.<br />
youth and family support<br />
services in our region.<br />
Council funding provides<br />
the infrastructure for eight or<br />
nine organisations including<br />
<strong>Life</strong>line, Mission Australia, and<br />
Headspace to work out of.<br />
Each of the services that<br />
provide the support do their<br />
own fundraising.<br />
Ms Gordon said her analysis<br />
of the service provision<br />
for younger people in the<br />
Narrabeen and <strong>Pittwater</strong><br />
wards revealed “a significant<br />
under-resourcing of services”.<br />
“There continues to be<br />
a significant inequality of<br />
service delivery for younger<br />
people, so my question<br />
to Council and to State<br />
and Federal members and<br />
the community, is: Who is<br />
responsible for <strong>Pittwater</strong> and<br />
Narrabeen? And how are we<br />
going to address those gaps<br />
in that need?<br />
48 MAY <strong>2023</strong><br />
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