VOLUNTEER RESOURCE
CENTRES
1241. Hon COLIN HOLT to the Leader of the House representing
the Minister for Volunteering:
I refer to volunteer resource
centres.
(1) Can the minister please list
the locations and total number of all VRCs in Western Australia?
(2) How much does each VRC receive
in funding?
(3) When do the current funding
arrangements cease?
(4) Is the
government currently undertaking a review of the funding to VRCs or has a review
been recently completed?
(5) If a review has been completed,
can the minister please table that review?
Hon SUE ELLERY
replied:
I thank the honourable member for some notice of the
question.
(1)–(2)
The Department of Communities does not
provide funding for all volunteer resources centres. Communities
provides funding to services under its volunteering development services
program. I have a list in tabular form and I seek leave to have it incorporated
into Hansard.
Leave granted.
The following material
was incorporated —
|
Organisation
|
Service name
|
Location
|
2019/20 Annual Funding ex GST
|
|
Albany & Regional Volunteer Service Incorporated
|
Albany and Regional Volunteer Services
|
Albany
|
$48,072.27
|
|
Broome Community Information Resource Centre and
Learning Exchange
|
Broome Volunteer Resource Service
|
Broome
|
$41,924.79
|
|
Busselton Dunsborough Environment Centre Inc
|
Busselton Dunsborough Volunteer Centre
|
Busselton
|
$55,761.83
|
|
City of Armadale
|
Armadale Volunteer Services
|
Armadale
|
$31,702.63
|
|
City of Cockburn
|
Cockburn Volunteer Resource Centre
|
Cockburn
|
$38,020.68
|
|
City of Fremantle
|
Fremantle Volunteer Service
|
Fremantle
|
$34,835.54
|
|
City of Melville
|
Melville Volunteer Resource Centre
|
Melville
|
$35,488.01
|
|
City of Nedlands
|
Nedlands Volunteer Resource Centre
|
Nedlands
|
$30,756.28
|
|
City of Swan
|
Swan Volunteer Resource Centre
|
Midland
|
$50,213.14
|
|
Manjimup Community Resource Centre Inc
|
Volunteer Opportunity Development Service
|
Manjimup
|
$48,072.74
|
|
Nannup Community Resource Centre Inc
|
Nannup Volunteers
|
Nannup
|
$48,072.27
|
|
Peel Volunteer Resource Centre Inc
|
Peel Volunteer Resource Centre
|
Mandurah
|
$56,833.56
|
|
Shire of Esperance
|
Esperance Volunteer Resource Centre
|
Esperance
|
$36,848.39
|
|
The Roman Catholic Bishop of Geraldton Centacare
Family Services
|
Centacare Volunteer Service
|
Geraldton
|
$58,003.32
|
|
Volunteer South West Inc
|
Volunteer South West Inc
|
Bunbury
|
$56,781.05
|
(3) These
volunteer resource centres are currently funded through the volunteering
development services program to 31 December 2019. The minister has requested
that all services be offered an 18-month extension to 30 June 2021, to ensure
that adequate consultation is carried out by the department.
(4) The
Department of Communities' internal review of the volunteering
development services program was finalised in 2019.
(5) I table the
attached information, which is the report of the review, and seek leave to have
it incorporated into Hansard.
The PRESIDENT: The minister
seeks leave to have the report incorporated into Hansard. Sorry,
minister. Is that just a report that can be tabled; it does not need to be
incorporated?
Hon SUE ELLERY: Yes. I might
have said ''incorporated'' about the report as well, which does
not need to be incorporated into Hansard.
The PRESIDENT: The report is
tabled.
Hon SUE ELLERY: Shall I name
the document, Madam President?
The PRESIDENT: Perhaps that
will be easier.
Hon SUE ELLERY: It is titled ''Future
approach for purchasing Volunteering Development Services: Policy and Service
Design.''
The PRESIDENT: So we do not
need to have anything incorporated into Hansard? Good.
[See paper 3320.]