NARACOORTE is set to benefit from the Federal Government’s Building Better Regions Fund with $18,750 awarded to the South Australian Volunteer Fire Fighters Museum.
The funding has been awarded to the organisation for development of a strategic business plan and funding strategy that underpins the development and operation of the proposed museum
complex that will present and preserve the history of South Australia’s volunteer firefighters.
The museum will be a conduit for the education of the wider community, particularly the youth, on the role of the volunteer fire service in South Australia since its inception as the emergency fire service in the 1940s and its evolution into the SA Country Fire Service over the past 75 years.
Member for Barker Tony Pasin said he was very supportive of the project.
“Our firefighters, particularly our volunteers, past and present, show tremendous dedication and work hard in often dangerous, life threatening conditions, leaving their own family, home and sometimes community to help others,” he said.
“I’m really pleased to see SA Volunteer Fire Fighters Museum be successful in their application for funding through the Building Better Regions Fund to get the strategic business plan and funding strategy off the ground.
“Without the Building Better Regions Fund, these community investment projects often struggle to get the funding.”
Regional Development Minister Fiona Nash said the Building Better Regions Fund Community Investment Stream was investing $6.9m in community projects throughout regional Australia.
“I aim to help build the kinds of regional communities our children and grandchildren either want to stay in or come back to – this project helps to do that,” she said.
