Sea Lake Neighbourhood house has been awarded $7669 from the RACV Community Foundation. The RACV Community Foundation aims to support three main priorities: mobility and safety, emergency services and environmental sustainability. Sea Lake Neighbourhood House focused on enhancing the mobility and safety of residents in the community. It was an extremely competitive grant with 84 applications and only 19 organisations awarded funding.
The funding from RACV will increase the number of people in town with an endorsed bus licence so that there is a number of trained and qualified bus drivers to transport people to events and activities who would unable to get to them on their own. The remaining funds will be utilised by Tyrrell College to target targets youths and others who are about to get their licence or who need to build their confidence at driving, increasing their awareness of road safety and learning the road rules. The students will participate at the Charlton Education Driving School now and again in six months time to learn basic road rules and safety while also gaining some practical experience at driving vehicles through roundabouts, traffic lights and different parking techniques.
Sea Lake Neighbourhood House would like to thank both the Trust Company and RACV Foundation for this funding and enabling these projects to take place. The Trust Company funding will provide a space for youths to go and socialise with each other in a neutral environment while the RACV Foundation funding will increase youths skills, abilities and knowledge about driving as well as provide the opportunity for people to become mobile and attend events as more people in the community are capable of safely driving a bus full of people.
