Energex Community & Sustainability Fund
The Energex Community and Sustainability Fund will sponsor South East Queensland organisations that, like Energex, are committed to sustainability and the environment. Applicable groups include, but are not limited to:
- Schools
- Community and sporting clubs
- Cultural Heritage groups
- Gardening and Agricultural societies
- Industry associations
- Animal Welfare groups
- Service Groups
The funds will be provided by the sale of scrap metal, thereby also delivering on Energex’s own goals for sustainability.
October 2012 recipient groups
Congratulations to the following groups, who were successful in the latest round of funding:
All Saints Primary School, Albany Creek – to create and maintain a vegetable garden to educate students about sustainable food practices
Australian Volunteer Coast Guard, Noosa – to purchase vital emergency rescue equipment
Beechmont Progress Association – to create a community garden to educate people to live in a sustainable way
Bilinga Surf Life Saving Club – to support the a Junior lifesaving education and surf safety program;
Bulimba Girl Guides – to create and maintain a vegetable garden to educate members about sustainable food practices
Caloundra Community Kindergarten – to replace ageing electric hot water system with more effiecient solar powered system
Clover Hill State School, Mudgeeraba – to create and maintain vegetable garden to educate students about sustainable food practices
Civic Solutions Inc, Logan City – to create a community garden to educate people to live in a sustainable way
Coolum District Coast Care Group – to provide energy effiecient refrigerators that are used for seed storage
Coomera Chamber of Commerce – to develop Junior Chamber of Commerce groups in high schools in the local area
Coorparoo Juniors AFL Club – to purchase energy effiecient lighting for the school oval used by the junior club
Dicky Beach Surf Life Saving Club – to assist the “Beach to Bush” camp for high school students to receive bronze medallion and also provide soft rescue boards
Everton Park State High School – to revegetate area of Kedron Brook Bikeway
Friends of the Caloundra Lighthouse – to produce an educational brochure about the lighthouse to promote its cultural significance
Good Start Early Learning Centre, Ann Street, Brisbane City – to create and maintain a vegetable garden to educate students about sustainable food practices
Gympie and District Landcare Group – to build tracks at Nils Buchanan Messmate Park at Kia Ora to minimise weed impact and increase public use
Kuraby State School – to create and maintain a vegetable garden to educate students about sustainable food practices
Lions of MacGregor – to provide tools for work on weed control and revegetation projects
Marine Rescue Point Danger – to purchase a canvas marquee to be used at community events and recruitment days
Memorial Park Kindergarten Assn Inc, Maroochydore – to create and maintain avegetable garden to educate students about sustainable food practices
North Shore Community Centre, Pacific Paradise – to create a community garden to educate people to live in a sustainable way
Palm Beach Neighbourhood Centre – to promote the centre’s community services
Samford’s Men’s Shed – to provide materials for the Brisbane Sustainable Timber Expo
St Joseph’s Nundah – to support the Marathon Club promoting healthy lifestyles through exercise
Toowong State School – to install a fish pond area for native fish and plants
Twinnies Pelican and Seabird Rescue, Beerwah – to provide training to rescue pelicans and seabirds
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