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Partner / Stakeholder Communication Coffs Coast Local Food Film Festival website updated and promoted (April 2012 ongoing)(target audience communication) Face Book page for the Bellingen High School Community Gardens Association and Bellingen High School Community Garden updated and promoted (February 2012 ongoing)(target audience communication) Bellingen Community Gardens Association group page on the Coffs Coast Local Food Alliance ning site updated (target audience communication) Stories in the Bellingen Courier Sun promoting social and gardening activities at the Bellingen High School Community Garden (target audience communication) Bellingen High School Community Garden promoted in the High School newsletter and via the High School website (target audience communication) Regular emails and updates promoting gardening and project activities sent to 185 people via the Bellingen Local Food Network e-mail list (target audience communication) Regular monthly meetings of the Bellingen Community Gardens Association Management Committee, which now includes a member of the Bellingen EYE Regular fortnightly column published in the Rural Weekly section of the Coffs Coast Advocate since August 2010, promoting project activities and other topics relevant to the wider project objective (target audience communication) 500 copies of flyers for the Bellingen High School Garden and the Bellingen Community Gardens Association delivered to households in nearby streets, and left at cafes and restaurants in Bellingen (target audience communication) Local recipe book produced for students and community, focusing on garden produce Evaluation meeting held with Coffs Harbour City Council, North Coast Health, and Coffs Harbour Community Gardens Association to conduct a final evaluation of the Project and its outcomes (20 July 2012) Stakeholder Engagement/Participation The following groups have participated in and engaged with the diverse activities of the project: School children (primary and high school) and local youth (Bellingen EYE) Youth leaders and mentors Parents of school children Teachers and the acting principal of Bellingen Public Primary School Teachers, students and parents at the Mary Help of Christian School, Sawtell Public School, Sandy Beach School, Members of Transition Bellingen Local government and private sectors planners from a wide range of institutions across the mid-north and north coast regions State government (DPI, DPC) senior staff Members of the general public Assessment of levels of participation Those participating most consistently and intensively have been local youth, i.e. students from the Bellingen High School, especially those who are also members of the Bellingen EYE.
Monitoring and Evaluation Please see attached evaluation report in tabular form, which documents the progress made towards achieving the immediate, intermediate and ultimate outcomes, as measured against the performance indicators. The assessment of the BCGA and its principal project partners (Bellingen EYE) is that significant progress has made been towards all three levels of outcomes according to the outcomes hierarchy. YouTube - Bellingen Public Permablitz, Boambee Permablitz Photos – attached Unanticipated outcomes / multiplier effects The Coffs Coast Advocate Rural Weekly column continues to reach a wide audience and raise awareness of the project activities as well as to wider issues of sustainability and resilience The local food film competition organised as part of the second Coffs Coast Local Food Film Festival attracted six high quality entries, with the winner being a short film about the recovery of bush tucker knowledge by a landowner in the Nambucca valley; this competition continues into the third Local Food Film festival due for October 2012 The combination of the permablitzes with the green grants made available to schools and community groups by Coffs Harbour City Council has enabled the project to reach a much wider audience than might otherwise have been the case Embedding Sustainability This Project needs to be contextualised amongst a number of other initiatives that have taken place concurrently in Bellingen over the past four-five years. Since the formation of the Bellingen Local Food Network in 2007, which was a significant factor leading to the formation of the Coffs Harbour Local Food Alliance and hence to this Project, these initiatives have included: Transition Bellingen Edible Streetscapes Project (part-funded through this grant) Bello Food Box Belllingen Seed Savers North Bank Community Garden Dorrigo Green Lifestyle Group Bellingen Permaculture Collective – Food Swaps Bellingen Free Market The drive for sustainability in Bellingen has inspired similar initiatives further afield, such as the Nambucca Valley Local Food Network. As mentioned earlier, members of this Network have played a leading role in the continued realisation of the Coffs Coast Local Food Film Festival. All these initiatives feed off each other, and support each other. The establishment of the High School garden, and the establishment of permaculture gardens in several primary schools and community organisations via the permablitz program, has played a leading role in the embedding of sustainability in two principal ways: It has shown how ideals can be put into action in concrete projects, and It has created (together with the Edible Streetscapes program) visible demonstrations of sustainable living.
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Page 3 and 4: The Farm Gate Trail & Seasonal Cale
Page 5 and 6: Introduction This project establish
Page 7 and 8: Milestones The Milestone Timetable
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