About
The current, or Phase 1, Building Community Resilience in Bywong and Wamboin Program is now complete.
A Report of the Program is available for download here.
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Based on that Report the Steering Group is now looking to develop a Phase 2 Program in partnership with the Queanbeyan Palerang Regional Council. For more details see Appendix 3 of the Evaluation.
The Building Community Resilience program is about better connections between people and local neighbourhoods in Bywong and Wamboin.
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These connections create a foundation for local safety, sharing local knowledge and help when needed, to ensure living a rural residential life can be a rewarding and sustaining experience in uncertain times.
The program builds on two existing initiatives- the Community Firewise Groups and the public walks program on the Greenways.
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To support those two initiatives, we plan to offer a community leadership program to help volunteers who may want to lead public walks, offer to be a Firewise convener or to step up in other ways to assist the community.
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And finally, we hope to offer a range of other events - talks and social events- to ensure we are able to include everyone who wants to take part.
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MORE INFORMATION about the current details of this program are available to DOWNLOAD HERE
Community Firewise
Groups
Neigbhourhood safety networks
Other Events
Social, Talks & Workshops
Public Walks on the Greenways
Walk, Talk and Connect
Community
Leadership Program
Step Up and Step Out
Steering Group
The Program is driven by a Steering Group of local volunteers, currently led by Carol Boughton.
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The Group is making decisions about the program and is accountable to Resilience NSW for the agreed funded Program.
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CONTACT the Program Steering Group by email.
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Project Officer
Amanda Jones is our newly engaged Project Office. Amanda is finalising our detailed Project Plan and by the end of June we should have available a formal schedule of activities encompassing the Greenways Walks & Talks, creating new FireWise Groups and training in community leadership. In the meantime, a preliminary schedule is available here.
Program Partners
The Program grant application was initiated by the Greenways Renewal Working (GRoW) group, and is supported by the:
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We thank all our partners for supporting this community program and appreciate everything they do for our communities.
Bywong & Wamboin
Bywong and Wamboin NSW, are localities in the western-most part of the Queanbeyan-Palerang Regional Council local government area, very close to the North-Eastern border of Canberra, ACT. We are located on the Lake George escarpment with Sutton (West) and Bungendore (East) our closest villages.
Classed as a rural residential area, Bywong and Wamboin has 3,030+ residents with small holdings typically 5-20 acres.
Bywong & Wamboin each have a community hall & community association. We also have a unique network of public walkways through bushland called Greenways, a range of voluntary organisations including the very active local Wamboin Rural Fire Brigade, two pony clubs, Landcare and our organisation, GRoW, among others.
Our locality is a recognised fire-prone area within the Lake George zone of Rural Fire Services.
Our hybrid urban/rural population with no town centre or built environment to indicate a local population means providing services and support to such a scattered population has proven difficult for all levels of government.
Hence, the purpose of this program is to try to offer support to our community at a grassroots level to help improve our individual and community resilience through stronger relationship networks.
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PAGE UPDATED 27 February 2022