High tea for community grant winners

Member for Gosford, Ms Kathy Smith, has hosted a celebratory high tea for the successful Community Building Partnership Grant applicants at the Hidden Courtyard Cafe in Woy Woy.

"It was a great pleasure to meet the people behind the worthy project applications and to hear of the work being done by these organisations for the benefit of our community," Ms Smith said.

"I know all present also enjoyed meeting each other and discussing their work and ideas.

"It can only be a positive process when we get community-minded people together like this with the beneficiaries being the local residents they are providing services for," she said.

The grants are made each year to provide local community organisations with funding for their projects.

Among this year's successful applicants for projects on the Peninsular were the Umina Beach Police Citizens Youth Club to fund safe and secure storage facilities at the club, Life Education NSW for a wheelchair lift, and Vinnies Woy Woy to fund their emergency support and response centre.

The Catholic Diocese of Broken Bay received a grant for Mary Mac's Place at Woy Woy and Gosford Council received a grant for a major upgrade at the Trafalgar Ave playground in Umina.

HammondCare was a grant recipient for its dementia care work at Woy Woy.

Email, 3 Mar 2016

Jane Letteri, Office of Kathy Smith