22 July 2015 – Meet Tess at the Landcare Link-up

Posted on 8 July, 2015 by Connecting Country

Representatives from Landcare and Friends groups across the Mount Alexander Region are invited to attend a Landcare Link-up meeting in Castlemaine on Wednesday 22nd July 2015.

New Regional Landcare Coordinator for the North Central Catchment Tess Grieves, with a turtle.

The meeting has been organized to get input from groups on the key tasks for the Mount Alexander Landcare Facilitator over the coming years. This is the role undertaken by Connecting Country staff member Max Schlachter.

The State government has committed to continuing the program (now called the ‘Victorian Landcare Facilitator Program’) for another 4 years and this requires the development of a ‘Program Delivery Plan’ which sets out the key tasks of the facilitator for the next 4 years.

The Landcare Link-up meeting will also be used to introduce our new Regional Landcare Coordinator, Tess Grieves.

Tess has been working at the North Central CMA for the past four and a half years on a number of large-scale NRM projects (e.g. Loddon River, Gunbower Forest) and has coordinated all the community engagement activities and community grants for these projects. Tess has a Bachelor of Arts – Nature Tourism and has also completed a Graduate Certificate of Outdoor and Environmental Education and a Graduate Certificate in River Health Management. She is also a Mount Alexander Shire local having grown up in Elphinstone and gone to high school in Castlemaine.

Tess began the role this week and has kindly agreed to come down for the meeting to introduce herself and tell us about changes to this year’s Victorian Landcare Grants. Tess will be able to answer questions about the the grants and the application process, which are due to open prior to the Link-up meeting.

The meeting will be on Wednesday 22^nd July at the Ray Bradfield Room, Castlemaine. It will begin with soup and bread at 6:30pm and be done by 8:30pm at the latest.

Two representatives from each group are invited to attend, but we can fit more if you have extras. It would be wonderful to get at least one representative from every group there.

Please RSVP for catering by Friday 17th July to Max (max@connectingcountry.org.au, 5472 1594).

Click here to download a PDF flyer.