REMINDER: Pick My Project - please register and vote to help fund local nature projects - TELL YOUR FRIENDS

[Maelor Himbury]

If you haven't voted on Pick My Project please do so as soon as possible. The details are below. Voting ends September 17.

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From: Maelor Himbury
Sent: Friday, 17 August 2018 10:40 AM
Subject: Pick My Project - please register and vote to help fund local nature projects - TELL YOUR FRIENDS

 

FMV is partnered with Maribyrnong Council on a Pick My Project funding effort for Pipemakers Park where we have been working regularly on a Tuesday morning.

Pick My Project is a community grants initiative that allows you to vote for projects in your local area (withing 5km of your home).

We would encourage you to register and vote so we can achieve our target.

You can choose up to three (3) projects so we would love it if you could include the following two:

Pipemakers Park Community revegetation project

Environmental revegetation and weed control at Pipemakers Park, Maribyrnong

Pipemakers Park, 7kms NW of Melbourne, is an 8 hectare conservation park with 2 wetlands, some native bush, and a history garden and open green spaces. Work will be in the History Garden, the Frog Hollow areas and the general park to create an improved urban native landscape for inner Melbourne residents. This project will engage local community volunteers to work with Friends of Maribyrnong Valley, Conservation Volunteers Australia and the Bush Kindergarten to complete a range of conservation activities including weed removal, native plantings, rubbish removal, frog surveys, bird surveys, community gardens and create a full time working nursery

The project will remove various noxious weeds. Planting indigenous native plants will provide biodiversity and habitat for wildlife linking up corridors of native flora & fauna along the Maribyrnong River. The local community will maintain the environmental assets and will create new open green spaces, learning new skills while enjoying a cultural experience. Benefits to health and social inclusion will be a further result of this program. Engaging community volunteers for the project will engender a sense of ownership of the park, which will have long term benefits for the community as well as the environment.

Western Urban Rivers Network

To connect communities working to protect and restore our rivers.

Across the west communities are coming together and working to protect and restore their local rivers, creeks and wetlands. Our project will build on and deepen networks connecting these passionate local communities and advocate for new laws that revive our waterways and suburbs. The Western Urban Rivers Network will bring people together face-to-face and online, it will train volunteers and create shared resources. This network will structure and formalise community ‘voices’ for the rivers and creeks of the west, contributing to protection and restoration of these key local assets and embedding supports to this community advocacy.

The rivers and waterways of Melbourne’s west are well loved major natural and community assets. These places are facing considerable urban and development pressures. There are plans and strategies for their protections and restoration but without community-based organisations coming together to stand up and care for these places they will continue to be compromised. Newer communities in the west will not learn about them. Plans and strategies will be not be effective. This project will build on existing momentum from the ‘rivers of the west’ network, strengthening links between groups and building up skills and space for advocacy and community

How to vote

1. Register for a Pick My Project account.
2. Enter your suburb or address and browse the project ideas in your local community.
3. Pick your three favourite projects, verify your mobile number, and submit your votes.
4. Share who you’ve voted for with your family and friends.

The process is a bit fiddly involving verifications but please persist.

Maelor Himbury

6 Florence St Niddrie 3042

0393741902

0432406862