Entries Open
Entries for the 2010 Fire Awareness Awards are now open.
Awards are offered across eight main categories – these reward the hard work of individuals, groups and organisations who have carried out fire projects in Victoria.
Grants are also on offer including the $10,000 RACV Insurance Fire Safety Grant and Special Incentive Grants of up to $2,000 to develop and undertake a fire project, or further an existing fire project in Victoria.
All entries for grants and awards must be submitted by 4pm on Friday 20 August 2010.
For further information or queries please email fire.awards@dse.vic.gov.au or call 03 9412 4465.
Past Winners
Past winners of the Fire Awareness Awards in 2009 include:
Amy Foster, Jessica Bedggood, Tim Liddell and Sam Montague students at Maffra Secondary College won the Education Award for their Teenagers in Emergencies Initiative.
The fire project consisted of a consultation process with 160 teenagers in the Maffra area to create the Teenagers in Emergencies booklet. This provides teenagers with practical solutions to prepare for, and respond to, emergencies. The students also organised practical sessions at their school with groups of students learning basic bushfire and flood safety skills.
Maffra Secondary College was also the recipient of the 2009 $10,000 RACV Insurance Fire Safety Grant to further develop this project.
Latest Updates
2010 - we're focusing on communities
Recognising the great projects carried out by members of the community, eight new Community Award categories have been introduced for this year's Fire Awareness Awards.
The new categories include Community Preparedness, Volunteer, Individual Achievement, Recovery, Multicultural, Youth and Aged/Disability. These awards are an opportunity to acknowledge individuals or community groups for their fire projects that reduce the number of fires, or the effects of fires, anywhere in Victoria.
Check out more information about each of these new community awards and enter your fire project.
