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NRMA Grant Helps Swansea Youth


NRMA Grant Helps Swansea Youth

Author: NRMA MediaDate: 27 September 2010

Monday 27 September 2010: Eastlake Youth Centre will today receive a $1,000 NRMA Safer Driving School Road Safety Grant for a project aimed at helping young people stay safe on local roads.

Local NRMA Director Kyle Loades congratulated Eastlake Youth Centre for making road safety a priority and praised the innovative Saving Our Lives project.

"The Eastlake Youth Centre's project will teach young people life-saving, road safety skills regardless of whether they are drivers, pedestrians, cyclists or skateboarders," Mr Loades said.

"Safe travel skills can be as simple as crossing at pedestrian crossings or traffic lights or not skateboarding across busy roads.

"We want to increase all aspects of road safety awareness for kids and young adults in the area especially with the new skate park at Chapman Oval due to open next month."

NRMA's Safer Driving School Road Safety Grants help communities tackle local road safety issues. This year the NRMA has awarded $100,000 in grants to 40 community-based organisations for innovative road safety programs that address issues such as safer cycling and road safety for people with a vision impairment and those who are deaf.

Eastlake Youth Centre Senior Youth Worker Ms Jenny Rixon said the NRMA grant would be used for a series of six road safety workshops for young people attending the Swansea Centre.

"Young people often think they are invincible and there is a great need to raise the awareness of the dangers they put themselves and other road users in, often without realising it," Ms Rixon said.

"Fact sheets to be distributed throughout the community will be produced at the workshops for all road users including drivers, pedestrians, cyclists, skateboarders and scooter riders."

Mr Loades said the NRMA was proud to support road safety initiatives which make a real difference at a local level.

The NRMA has funded more than 200 initiatives since 2001. Click here for a complete list of this year's successful grant applications .

PHOTO OPPORTUNITY:
WHO: Local NRMA Director Kyle Loades will present Eastlake Youth Centre with the $1,000 grant. Young people from the Youth Centre will be present.
WHEN: 1:00pm Monday 27th September 2010.
WHERE: Ground Floor, Youth Room, The Swansea Centre, 228 Pacific Highway, Swansea, NSW

Media: Contact Kimberly Rigby 0439 133 215

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