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• How to access cash or grants for the work you do?
  
• How to inspire your creativity?
• How to help your community out?
• What more you can do for the environment?
• Where you can access more information about your primary industry?
• How to improve the health of the people around you?
• How to upgrade your skills?
• How young people tell their stories?

CASP provides small grants to arts and community organisations and local arts councils in regional NSW for short term, locally initiated projects. The aims of the program are … [read more]

This year is the 25th anniversary of the Human Rights Awards, which celebrate amazing contributions by Australians to the protection and promotion of human rights. … [read more]

The NSW Central West Catchment Management Authority invites you to enter their photographic competition. … [read more]

Heywire is open to rural and regionally-based people aged 16–22 to tell their stories in all forms of media – text, photos, video and audio – about life and issues in Australia outside the major cities. … [read more]

Become the “fix-it” female in this one day introduction course to chainsaw and small powered machine safety and maintenance. What you learn could save you hundreds of dollars on maintenance bills on tools like ride-on mowers, hand mowers, whipper-snippers, line trimmers, brushcutters, mulchers, generators and pumps etc. … [read more]

CASP provides small grants to arts and community organisations and local arts councils in regional NSW for short term, locally initiated projects. The aims of the program are … [read more]

Rural and regional women of Australia – block out 18-20 February 2013 in your diaries now for the inaugural National Rural Women’s Conference … [read more]

The Stopping Violence Against Women Before It Starts: A Practical Toolkit for Communities was formally launched yesterday by Minister Julie Collins at the Country Women’s Association Australian National Conference, in Hobart. … [read more]

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Current Projects

• Expansion of the National Rural Women’s Network.
• Working to network with as many other rural women’s organisations across the country as possible.
• Marketing and sharing of the Family Violence Toolkit for Communities.
• Sharing and Marketing of the Disaster Preparation Toolkit for rural communities.
• Hosting of the first National Rural Women’s Conference in February 2013, Canberra.
• Member of the Alliance Working Party to lobby government as they develop housing policy, especially for women in rural areas.
• Working with the other National Women’s Alliances to prepare an NGO submission to the UN CSW (Commission on the Status of Women 2013) focusing on addressing issues relating to family and domestic violence against women and their children.
• Working with other Women’s Alliances to lobby the two political parties to include an impact statement on women and gender issues as they develop government policies into the future.
• Participating in discussions on food sustainability.
• Participating in discussions on rural education.
• Seeking funding to run more e learning and leadership programs for women in rural areas.
• Developing the "Cuppa With" program, an online learning tool for women in rural areas.

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