Investing back into the community

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NORTEC Community Grants Initiative

NORTEC recently launched their Community Grants Initiative in 2009, offering a grant share of $25,000 from Nambucca to Tweed Heads for community organisations on the North Coast.

To read about some of the recipients in 2009, see below:

Adventure Based Counselling Helping Youth in the Northern Rivers

St Andrews Aged Care Facility Ballina - Mural done by local high school students

The next Community Grants Initiative will be launched in February 2011 - keep posted on our website for more details!

 

Supporting our Local Surf Lifesaving Clubs

Surf Life Savers are the unsung hereos in our beautiful region and NORTEC aim to support Surf Life Saving Clubs whenever we can.

In 2007 NORTEC donated $4,000 to Fingal SLSC to assist them purchase another jet ski for rescue operations and each year NORTEC sponsor the Cudgen Nippers Classic, encouraging young locals to become surf savvy.

Annually, NORTEC are involved in Boardies Day and this year, due to expansion of NORTEC territory, NORTEC have nominated clubs from Coffs Harbour to Tweed and each branch is already preparing fundraising activities for the local clubs. See our recent Boardies Day press release on the Tweed.

NORTEC Labour Hire sponsor the Rainbow Bay SLSC that has a high percentage of Tweed Shire members. This year we sponsored the Dolphins - check out the cute NORTEC Dolphins!

 

Getting Behind Movember - Raising awareness for men's health issues

On a day to day basis NORTEC deal with disadvantaged community members and issues like depression are common amongst our many of our clients. Movember is a way for us to support our male community members and educate them to seek help for physical and mental health issues.

In 2009 all staff in our offices got behind the cause with fundraising activities and we raised a motzah $5,308.85!

 

Other NORTEC Community Benefits involvement in the past have included:

NORTEC has established Community Investment Program through which the Company reinvests its profits back into the Community.

Projects have included: Volunteering Referral Service - NORTEC Volunteering:

• Investment of over $30,000 in 2000 into a Volunteering Research Project which has now led to the establishment of NORTEC Volunteering as an agency linking Tweed and Northern Rivers Volunteers with Volunteering opportunities in the community.
• Subsidisation of NORTEC Volunteering over the period of 2001-2009 - approx $300,000.

Youth Services:

• Subsidisation of NORTEC Youth Services youth program delivery over the period of 2001-2009, investing approximately $40,000 and $50,000 per year into bettering our youth program delivery.

Language Literacy and Numeracy Program (LLNP)

• Subsidisation of NORTEC LLNP to improve service delivery of the program - $25,000 per annum.

Other:

• Investment in 2001 of $20,000 into the Murwillumbah Community Support Scheme to establish a Volunteer Co-ordinators position and $10,000 maintenance towards same in 2002 and 2003.

 

Donations and Sponsorships

Recent Donations:

2009

• $3,000 Coffs Harbour Women Health Centre
• $2,000 Nambucca Valley Youth Services
• $4,000 North Coast Computer Project, Pippi Beach Yamba
• $1,000 Grafton Showgrounds Recreation and Reserve
• $4,100 Lismore Neighbourhood Centre
• $900 Windara Communities
• $3,000 Byron Bay Youth Services
• $1,000 St Andrews Ballina, Murel Project
• $1,000 Mullumbimby Community Garden
• $1,000 Tweed Palliative Support
• $1500 Interaction Based Counselling (for traumatised young people)
• $1,000 Things2Do Banora Point Community Youth Centre
• $1,000 Friends of Wollumbin Land Care
• $500 Hastings Point Dune Care
• $500 Cudgen SLSC Nippers Event
• $500 St Joseph's Youth Services Tweed Valley Youth Times (print newsletter)
• $1900 Rainbow Bay Surf Lifesaving Club Dolphins Rashies
• $550 NETPAC Training Awards in Coffs Harbour
  
• $250 North Coast Group Training Awards
• $2,000 Sponsorship Ballina Business Excellence Awards
• $2,000 Clarence Valley Business Excellence Awards
• $500 Brunswick Heads 'Simple Pleasures Photography Award'
• $500 Community Printmakers National Printmakers Award for new talent
  

2008

• $2,000 Byron Youth Services
• $2,000 Sth Josephs Youth Services Cool Heads Program
• $2,000 to CASPA (Child and Adolescent Specialist Programs and Accommodation, Northern Rivers )
• Rainbow Bay Surf Lifesaving Club Nippers - $2000 for a Marquee Tent
• Cudgen Classic 2008 - $500
• $1900 to Movember Fundraiser
• Coolangatta/Tweed PCYC Fundraiser Golf Day
  

2007

• $4,000 Fingal Rovers Volunteer Surf Lifesaving
• Autism Info Indoor Bowls Tournament Fundraiser
• $500 Cudgen Surf Lifesaving Club - Cudgen Classic
• 2007 Youth Week on the Tweed
• Coolangatta/Tweed PCYC Fundraiser Golf Day

2006

• $3,000 PCYC Tweed Heads
• $4,000 Cancer Council NSW
• $500 Cudgen Surf Lifesaving Club - Cudgen Classic
• Gold Sponsors of the Tweed Business Excellence Awards 2006
• Autism Info Community Trivia Night Fundraiser - $1500 raised
• TAFE Outreach Courses, provision of venue and transport
• Tweed Youth 3F Funky Film Festival (part of 2006 Youth Week)

2005

• $8,625 to Murwillumbah and Tweed Hospital

NORTEC annually support the Volunteer Rescue Association Incorporated