Violet Town Action Group
Violet Town Action Group [VTAG] has been actively looking after the interests of the community for many years and has as its vision and purpose:
"VTAG is a group of people drawn from the local community. VTAG works to develop and support community activities and initiatives, and provides a forum which facilitates discussion and decision making for the communities of Violet Town and District."
A master plan was created to guide the development of the project.
VTAG's Market committee is wholly responsible for the operation and direction of the 'Famous Violet Town Market', the Honeysuckle Recreation Environment Project that has undertaken the creation of an excellent walking and cycling trail along both sides of the Honeysuckle Creek with the town boundaries.
VTAG has taken on the responsibility of administering the Violet Town Community Forest project, and is prepared to carry any shortfall in funding using money raised by the Violet Town market.
Violet Town Action Group engaged the services of a 'StreetLife Coordinator' to assist with business development and marketing opportunities. Part of the function of the StreetLife Coordinator was a review of the 'branding' and 'image' of Violet Town.
Violet Town and District Community Plan 2007-2010
The Violet Town and District Community Plan
The Violet Town and District community has a long and strong history of planning for the future and bringing positive change. Since the amalgamation of the Violet Town Shire Council into Strathbogie Shire Council in 1994 there has been an evolution of community groups and processes to lead the direction of Violet Town and District. A significant step was the first Community Opportunity Workshop held in 2000. This first workshop led to a range of initiatives, projects and actions which when reviewed after five years were found to have achieved almost all its aims.
The experience and success of the 2002 workshop and its flow-on effects gave confidence when deciding to hold a Community Opportunity Workshop in February 2007. The success of the Anti Toxic Dump Campaign also provided great confidence in community processes.
The Violet Town and District Community Plan was established in the months following the Community Opportunity Workshop. At the workshop the community suggested seventy-six different ideas and initiatives as the basis for the new community plan.
Following the February 2007 session, members of the VTAG grouped all of the suggestions into ten broad themes. Ten local people took on the role as facilitators for each of these themes. Small group meetings to develop the ideas within each theme were publicly advertised, and took place.
The information set out in the Ten Key Themes in this Plan mostly comes from the work done by those small groups, and especially by the Theme facilitators in writing it up. A higher resolution pdf is available ...
Violet Town Eco Living Centre
Violet Town Action Group appointed a part time Project Coordinator to oversight the development of the Violet Town Eco Living Centre over the next three years.
This project is a collaboration of approximately 15 community organizations working together to transform Violet Town into an Eco Living Town. Community education is a strong focus, together with a major retrofit of community facilities which will demonstrate practical solutions for energy reduction.
The project will build on existing community sustainability activities, and work together with a diverse range of interest groups in order to engage long term behavioural change.
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