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Active Mums - Healthy and Active Moreton NAIDOC Week Grant Funding Opens
If you’re a mum of young children looking to National Aborigines and Islanders Day Observance
incorporate more fitness into your lifestyle while Committee (NAIDOC) celebrates the history, culture
making new friends, Active Mums is for you! and achievements of Aboriginal and Torres Strait
Active Mums is a joint initiative of Moreton Islander people and is an opportunity to recognise
Bay Regional Council and the Queensland Government, in the contributions that
partnership with Moreton Bay Region’s Police Citizens Youth Indigenous Australians make to
Clubs (PCYCs). our country.
During Term 1, 2018, PCYCs in the Moreton Bay Region will be NAIDOC week is 8 - 15 July.
delivering the free Active Mums program to provide mothers This year’s NAIDOC theme is
with young children (aged 0 to 5 years) with access to group ‘Because of her, we can!’
fitness classes. Active Mums is a post natal exercise program Council is offering grant
delivered by qualified and experienced trainers. funding to support community
Participants will have the flexibility to bring their children to the groups and organisations to
classes and have them in the room during the class or in a fully deliver initiatives that mark
supervised crèche. NAIDOC week. Funding is
Active Mums is available to any full-time female carer of children available to assist with events,
aged 0 to 5 years. activities and programs that
Borth Redcliffe PCYC and Deception Bay PCYC run classes on celebrate the history, culture
Monday, Wednesday and Friday. and achievements of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people
To book and find out class times, call Redcliffe PCYC on in our community. Up to $1,000 is available.
(07) 3385 1900 or Deception Bay PCYC on (07) 3293 0166 Applications open 1 February 2018 and close 1 April 2018.
For more information visit www.moretonbay.qld.gov.au/
naidoc or contact the Grants team on (07) 3205 0555 or email:
grants@moretonbay.qld.gov.au.
Skilling Queenslanders for jobs, jobs, jobs in Bancroft
One hundred and sixty-five jobseekers in the
Bancroft electorate will get help through the Skilling
Queenslanders for Work (SQW) program.
Movement Twentytwo Inc. and the Deception Bay
Neighbourhood Centre Inc. will receive funding for their programs
under this round of SQW.
“SQW gives people who have struggled to find work the skills and
training they need to find work and build a successful career,” Chris
Whiting said.
“More than 1,100 participants in our community have benefited from
the different programs funded through the SQW initiative since the
Palaszczuk Government reinstated it in 2015,” he said.
Parkour Workshop (12-15yrs) Minister for Training and Skills Development Shannon Fentiman
Parkour, the art and sport of finding the most direct announced $30.66 million had been awarded to 161 projects through
path through your environment. Brisbane Parkour the latest Skilling Queenslanders for Work funding round.
will teach you how to run, jump and roll through the “Our investment in programs like this is a practical example of the
Redcliffe Parkour Park. This session is for participants Palaszczuk Government’s focus on jobs for Queenslanders, with more
12-15 years. than 13,000 people finding jobs thanks to the Skilling Queenslanders
Please note: Please wear enclosed shoes, hat, sunscreen and for Work initiative,” Minister Fentiman said.
bring a water bottle. All participants must be signed in by a “We worked closely with business and industry to create more than
parent/carer. Parents/carer are required to stay for the duration 130,000 jobs in our first term in office – an average of 130 new jobs
of the session. every day,” she said.
Date: Sat 17 February 2018, 9.15am-11.15pm Skilling Queenslanders for Workfunds skills development, training
Location: Redcliffe Parkour Park, Cnr Hornibrook Esp & Victoria and job opportunities for unemployed, disengaged or disadvantaged
Ave, Clontarf Queenslanders through a suite of targeted skills and training
Cost: FREE programs.
For more information and to book, visit - www.moretonbay.qld. For further information visit www.training.qld.gov.au/sqw or call
gov.au/healthy-active/ramp-up/timetable/ 1300 369 935
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