community directory - Bundaberg Regional Council

Steps Employment -
Childers
Street Address: Neighbourhood
Centre, Childers Bundaberg
Postal Address: PO Box 2059
Bundaberg 4670
P (07) 4150 1900 1300 078 377
M 0409 589 585
F (07) 4150 1919
E bundaberg@steps.net.au
Web Site: www.steps.net.au
Meeting Place: Neighbourhood
Centre, Childers
Operating/Meeting Times: Friday - by
appointment only
Wheelchair Accessible: Yes
Service Description: Obtains
employment positions in open
employment for people with
disabilities whose needs are ongoing
or short term. Provides pre and
post placement services to ensure
successful long-term employment.
Provides on the job support to clients
and maintains regular contact with
employers. Promotes the rights,
development and well-being of the
clients.
Steps Employment - Gin
Gin
Street Address: 21 Mulgrave Street,
Gin Gin Bundaberg
Postal Address: PO Box 2059
Bundaberg 4670
P (07) 4150 1900 1300 078 377
M 0409 589 585
F (07) 4150 1919
E bundaberg@steps.net.au
Web Site: www.steps.net.au
Meeting Place: 21 Mulgrave Street,
Gin Gin
Operating/Meeting Times: Friday - by
appointment only
Wheelchair Accessible: Yes
Service Description: Obtains
employment positions in open
employment for people with
disabilities whose needs are ongoing
or short term. Provides pre and
post placement services to ensure
successful long-term employment.
Provides on the job support to clients
and maintains regular contact with
employers. Promotes the rights,
development and well-being of the
clients.
ENVIRONMENT
Australian Marine
Conservation Society
Postal Address: PO Box 5136 Manly
4179
P 1800 066 299
E amcs@amcs.org.au
Web Site: www.marineconservation.
org.au
Service Description: The Australian
Marine Conservation Society is a
not-for-profit charity, dedicated to the
creation of Marine National Parks,
saving our ocean wildlife and making
our fisheries sustainable. Support the
Marine Conservation Society today
and together we will secure healthier
oceans for tomorrow.
Bundaberg and
District Artificial
Reef Association Inc
(Cochrane Artificial Reef)
Postal Address: PO Box 5552 West
Bundaberg 4670
P (07) 4131 5865
M 0438 523 749
Web Site: www.badarai.asn.au
Meeting Place: Brothers Sports Club
Operating/Meeting Times: Meets
on the fourth Tuesday of the month
(except December) at 7.30pm.
Wheelchair Accessible: Yes
Service Description: Working bees
and construction of modules, sea
deployments, reef monitoring and
fundraising.
Bundaberg and District
Urban Landcare
Association Inc
Street Address: 80A Woongarra Street
Bundaberg
Postal Address: PO Box 467
Bundaberg 4670
P (07) 4159 9286
M 0427 268 631
F (07) 4159 9286
E lcare1@bigpond.net.au
Meeting Place: 80A Woongarra Street
Operating/Meeting Times: 2nd
Monday of each month
Wheelchair Accessible: No
Service Description: BDULA is a
non-profit organisation dedicated
to informing and involving the
community in caring for our
environment. we now also operate a
plant nursery
Burnett Catchment Care
Association Inc
Street Address: 51 Lyons Street
Mundubbera
Postal Address: PO Box 105
Mundubbera 4626
P (07) 4165 3551
F (07) 4165 3552
E admin@burnettcatchment.org
Web Site: www.betterburnett.com
Meeting Place: Rotational around
Catchment
Operating/Meeting Times: 9.00am to
3.00pm (Three monthly)
Service Description: To coordinate
and instigate community awareness
and effort to maintain ecologically
and economically sustainable river
systems in the Burnett - a coordinated
approach to the management of land,
water, vegetation and biodiversity.
There are four sub catchment groups
– BCCA North, BCCA Central, BCCA
East and BCCA South.
Burnett Mary Regional
Group
Street Address: 193 Bourbong Street
Bundaberg
Postal Address: PO Box 501
Bundaberg 4670
P (07) 4181 2999
F (07) 4154 1427
E admin@bmrg.org.au
Web Site: www.bmrg.org.au
Operating/Meeting Times: 8.30am to
5.00pm (Monday to Friday)
Wheelchair Accessible: Yes
Service Description: Burnett Mary
Regional Group (BMRG) is one of
fifteen non-government, community
based Natural Resource Management
(NRM) groups in Queensland. The
Regional Groups were formed to
support the delivery of the National
Action Plan for Salinity and Water
Quality (NAP) and the Natural
Heritage Trust (the Trust). The BMRG
will build regional partnerships to
progress sustainable NRM initiatives
to ensure the social and economic
growth of our region over the long
term. These initiatives will bring
together government, industry and
community to address problems such
as salinity, water quality, biodiversity
and coastal and marine management
in the Burnett Mary Region. Our
region includes all of the catchments
from the Baffle Creek to the Mary
River, shires from the Continental
Divide (eg Chinchilla) to the coast,
Fraser Island World Heritage Area
and the Great Sandy Straits RAMSAR
area. The organisation also has a
large resource library available for the
use of our members with information
related to natural resource
management – including biodiversity,
salinity, land use management, water
quality and pest management/weeds.
Hinkler Burnett Greens
Postal Address: 10 Crossart Cresent
Bargara 4670
P (07) 4159 1931
E eco.ann@gmail.com
Meeting Place: School of Arts
Building, 184 Bourbong Street
Operating/Meeting Times: Meets
on the third Monday bi-monthly
(commences Feb) month at 5.30pm.
Wheelchair Accessible: Yes
Service Description: Grass roots
political party covering sustainable
development, environment
protection, social justice, care for
disadvantaged groups.
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