There is so much to do but it is all GOOD!

Hello All,


Emma is working on the Conference and the toolkit
as well as other projects



 Well the Community Engagement Toolkit is well and truly underway with the draft being available soon. This toolkit will kind of be like an 'operations manual' for those undertaking community engagement activities with a pile of ideas on the how to's, tricks of the trade and resource hints and tips. If you are interested in reviewing the draft toolkit please email Community Engagement Team and you can be added to the review

team. We welcome as much feedback as possible because to quote Emma "it is a resource that you will be using so lets make sure it has everything covered."

 

The 2011 Community Engagement and Fire Awareness Conference venue has been booked and you will start to see more information on this over the coming month. Expressions of interest to present and exhibit will go out over the next week along with nominations for registrations to attend.   

Our Conference is about Community Engagement, Fire Awareness, Social media and working with our
communities. It will be held at Wollongong at the Novotel.

  

Those who nominated to be a part of the volunteer working group will be notified of their appointment in during the next fortnight and expressions of interest for staff to be a part of the committee will be released during the same time period.

We have drafted a grass fires fact sheet which will be released in the next couple of weeks. This has been a topic of interest of late and highly sought after. Thanks to  

everyone who has reviewed the draft versions, your feedback was great! Other fact sheets currently in draft format include 'Defending Your Property', 'Total Fire Bans', 'AIDER' and 'BBQ, Recreational and Cooking Fires'.

A Property Assessment Tool is currently being developed to

An example of 1 side of a key message card

 assist members with property inspections. If you have ANY examples we would love you to share them with us as Emma is intent on delivering what she refers to as the "SUPER" version.

Lyndle is working on the
key message cards, the Roadshow
and other projects

Lyndle has sent the key message cards, complete with RFS

Caribeena's, off to the printers and we will have these to hand out at our Roadshows (refer previous Blog post). The key message cards are playing card size, double sided, laminated and will go onto the caribeena so they can be clipped onto your belt, pants or display stand. We will also have posters of these that you can use at displays. The intention of these cards is to give you a tool that contains our main key messages in the one place, is easy to use and can be used when chatting to members of the public or other RFS members. They also relate to the content of our recently launched Bush Fire Survival Plan.

  

Stay and Defend icon

 

As part of the key message cards and the Bush Fire Survival Plan Lyndle and the team developed some icons to help with written communication - let us know what you think of them. The icons represent some of our key messages as a picture. There have been 8 developed so far. They can also be used as discussion starters with children. As an example you could ask a child what they think the 'Leave Early' icon means. What the picture represents to them?

Cheers all

From the NSW RFS

Community Engagement Team at HQ