{"id":8574,"date":"2017-12-08T09:22:47","date_gmt":"2017-12-08T09:22:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gabriellewilliams.com.au\/dev\/funding-boost-for-dandenong-volunteers\/"},"modified":"2024-08-07T06:58:25","modified_gmt":"2024-08-07T06:58:25","slug":"funding-boost-for-dandenong-volunteers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gabriellewilliams.com.au\/dev\/funding-boost-for-dandenong-volunteers\/","title":{"rendered":"FUNDING BOOST FOR DANDENONG VOLUNTEERS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Volunteers in Dandenong are receiving a welcome funding boost, thanks to the Andrews Labor Government.<\/p>\n<p>Minister for Emergency Services, James Merlino, recently announced the outcome of the 2017-18 Volunteer Emergency Services Equipment Program, delivering grants to 300 successful applicants.<\/p>\n<p>Member for Dandenong, Gabrielle Williams, proudly announced that the Greater Dandenong SES will receive $52,274 to replace one of their ageing vehicles with the purchase of a new fit-for-purpose Crew Cab Ford Ranger vehicle.<\/p>\n<p>Emergency services volunteers across the state will share in $13 million in grants to help them keep Victorian communities safe.<\/p>\n<p>The program funds operational equipment, including vehicles, trucks, tankers, watercraft, trailers and minor facility upgrades.<\/p>\n<p>Across Victoria the grants package assists all our emergency services volunteer organisations, including:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>$9.55 million for volunteer CFA brigades<\/li>\n<li>$2.05 million for SES units<\/li>\n<li>More than $750,000 for Life Saving Victoria clubs<\/li>\n<li>More than $320,000 for the Australian Volunteer Coast Guard Association<\/li>\n<li>Almost $290,000 for other volunteer organisations<\/li>\n<li>Almost $50,000 to cover additional costs incurred by volunteers.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The Labor Government is also allocating almost $2.5 million in state-wide initiatives. For more information about the grants, visit the Emergency Management Victoria website:\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.emv.vic.gov.au\/\">https:\/\/www.emv.vic.gov.au\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Volunteers in Dandenong are receiving a welcome funding boost, thanks to the Andrews Labor Government. Minister for Emergency Services, James Merlino, recently announced the outcome of the 2017-18 Volunteer Emergency Services Equipment Program, delivering grants to 300 successful applicants. Member for Dandenong, Gabrielle Williams, proudly announced that the Greater Dandenong SES will receive $52,274 to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9798,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8574","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-media-releases"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gabriellewilliams.com.au\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8574","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gabriellewilliams.com.au\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gabriellewilliams.com.au\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gabriellewilliams.com.au\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gabriellewilliams.com.au\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8574"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.gabriellewilliams.com.au\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8574\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9799,"href":"https:\/\/www.gabriellewilliams.com.au\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8574\/revisions\/9799"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gabriellewilliams.com.au\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9798"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gabriellewilliams.com.au\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gabriellewilliams.com.au\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gabriellewilliams.com.au\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}