disaster resilience
You can use the categories to the right to explore particular topics. You’ll also find inspiring stories about some of the wonderful things community groups do with that funding. We also share a selection of media stories, where FRRR or a member of our staff has been featured. For any media enquiries, email Julie Weldon or call 0423 110 802.
Support available as recovery continues, 12 years on
22 Mar 2021 – Twelve years on from the 2009 Victorian bushfires, FRRR is offering another round of funding to support communities as they continue to rebuild, reconnect and recover.
FRRR to deliver two Future Drought Fund programs
18 Dec 2020 – Networks to Build Drought Resilience and Drought Resilience Leaders FRRR will soon be providing increased support into remote, rural and regional communities to prepare for the impacts of drought, after…
Disaster Resilient: Future Ready program to launch in Victoria
20 Nov 2020 – FRRR is inviting community members in Myrtleford, Beaufort, Korumburra, Paynesville, St Arnaud, Whittlesea and Yarra Junction to find out how the Disaster Resilient: Future Ready program can help them to…
Ocean Shores gets future ready thanks to $40,000 in grants
04 Jun 2020 – Two Ocean Shores community groups, Byron Youth Service and Ocean Shores Community Association, are sharing $40,000 in grants for projects that will help the community to better withstand and recover…
Tackling tough times in the Tablelands
30 Mar 2020 – The Tablelands Regional Council (TRC) and Northern Gulf Resource Management Group (NGRMG) have worked together to deliver a range of drought relief projects that contributed to connectedness, social wellbeing and…
Wee Waa set to be Disaster Resilient: Future Ready thanks to $40,000 grant
11 Oct 2019 – The Wee Waa Rotary Club will build a Community Arts Hub and fund a Cultural Trail as part of the Disaster Resilient: Future Ready (DR:FR) Get Ready NSW Pilot, thanks…
NSW communities to pilot community-led approach to disaster preparedness
01 Mar 2018 – The Foundation for Rural and Regional Renewal (FRRR) has announced that three NSW communities will be the first to trial a new national framework to improve community disaster preparedness and…
NSW communities Get Ready for disasters
06 Sep 2017 – FRRR and the NSW Government, through the Get Ready NSW initiative, are collaborating to develop and evaluate effective community-led disaster preparedness practices. A roadshow is underway through some NSW communities…
Not Quite Baroque (Broke!) festival energises Wallangra
06 Apr 2015 – An FRRR Tackling Tough Times Together grant funded by the Yulgilbar Foundation helped the Wallangra community to rediscover its strength and resilience.