Creating a web of green

Lord Mayor Suburban Initiative Fund
B4C, working with local bushcare groups and Habitat Brisbane, has received funding to develop a photo book promoting the wonderful work of Habitat Brisbane bushcare groups in the catchment. Many thanks go to Cr. Adrian Schrinner, Cr. Gail MacPherson, Cr Shayne Sutton and Cr. John Campbell for supporting this initiative and approving funding for their respective Wards.

Salvin Creek Fauna Movement Grant
In 2011, B4C received funding from Department of Environment and Resource Management (DERM) to create fauna movement solutions at Salvin Creek, off Pine Mountain Road. THrough rehabilitation and the installation of nesting boxes, B4C hopes to facilitate the movement of native animals through this waterway corridor.

Funding goes towards development of the Southside Sustainability Centre

B4C has received funding through Perpetual for a project manager at our education centre, the Southside Sustainability Centre. There are several current partners in developing small projects within the education centre, however lack of available funds for managing the overall project has prevented it from developing as a comprehensive, and integrated educational centre.

This funding of more than $25,000 will enable us to employ a
project manager for two days per week to organize and facilitate
the many small projects that are planned for our Centre. A
dedicated project manager will be able to follow up and continue
 momentum for the activities which include establishment of a
demonstration grassland area, sensory garden, expansion of
community vegetable gardens, workshops for volunteers and
the community on a variety of environmental issues, interpretative
 and informational signs, recognition of the hard work of the
 volunteers and engaging the wider community in environmental
 issues.

B4C would like to thank Perpetual and the John Christopher Pasco Memorial Charitable Trust for their generous support.

Queensland Country Credit Union
QCCU is supporting the Southside Sustainability Centre through a grant to
establish a sensory garden. Sensory gardens have been used in community
centres and hospitals as learning aids and areas of healing, and B4C is now
in the process of designing and establishing our own garden of the senses.

Queensland Country Credit Union supports local organisations and
communities across the state, making a real difference to the lives of its mem-
bers and their communities. B4C would like to thank QCCU for their support.

Signature Brisbane 2010

Funding of more than $8000 was received by Bulimba
Creek Catchment Coordinating Committee from
SignatureBrisbane to develop a mural that expresses
community values and experiences of Bulimba Creek Catchment. SignatureBrisbane awards three grants a year for projects that celebrate Brisbane’s unique ‘signature’ and draw together the themes of environment and art.

The project at the Southside Sustainability Centre received funding for its focus on expressing care for the environment through art, and for its celebration of Brisbane’s second largest catchment. The creation of the mural and several informative signs about the centre was facilitated by local artist, Chrissy Foreman C, and involved enthusiastic painters and artists from Mansfield and Tingalpa State Schools, and community members from around the catchment.

Low Carbon Diet

In 2009, funding of more than six thousand dollars was received by Bulimba Creek Catchment Coordinating Committee from the Queensland Government to produce educational signs at the Southside Sustainability Centre, focussing on climate change and how households can reduce their impact on the climate. These signs provide information on Climate Change, energy, transport and 'reduce, reuse, recycle'.

The grant was obtained via the Queensland Government’s Low Carbon Diet (LCD) Community Funding Program which supports organisations to implement the Low Carbon Diet, a program to help reduce Queenslanders’ carbon footprints.

More information on B4C's Low Carbon Diet program can be found here, or visit our Sustainability Centre to learn more about sustainable living in our homes and communities.

Grant from Gambling Community Benefit Fund

B4C received a grant of $6985 in September 2009, for purchase
 of water testing equipment. In February 2010 we purchased a
Horiba Water Quality Meter and carry bag from Australian
Scientific. Our water testing team, comprising of four regular
volunteers, all University Environmental Science students, was
trained in the use of the Horiba. Three people are new to the
team in 2010. Subsequently the 4 volunteers undertook a special
 two day course with SEQ Catchments on water quality monitoring
and use of the Horiba. The team visits 15 sites within our catchment,
going out each fortnight to approximately four sites each time.

The Horiba is a very easy to use instrument, that gives readings on pH,
turbidity (sediment in the water), dissolved oxygen, conductivity (ability of
the water to conduct an electrical charge, temperature and salinity (salt).
The team has just been trained in uploading the raw data to the SEQ
Catchments site, which will then be forwarded to the National Data Base.

Each month SEQ Catchments collects the Horiba and calibrates it to
make sure that the readings are accurate. This ensures that the data
is accepted by the National Data Base.

Southside Sport & Community Club Report

Dream River Project - Funded by the Queensland Government's Q150 Project