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Grants recipients 2003

In 2003, the twelve successful projects were chosen from a field of 46 applications requesting a total amount of more than $525,000.

Projects funded under the 2003 Grants Scheme include:

• $4,000 to Acacia Ridge Community Support Inc. - Brisbane Outer Suburbs, to develop resources and deliver information sessions specific to residents of boarding houses, supported accommodation and aged care rentals, living in the Outer Southwest Brisbane region.
• $10,000 to the Sabai Island Council. These funds will employ a project worker to organise three workshops that will cover tenants in Saibai, Boigu and Dauan Islands in the Torres Strait. The workshops will raise awareness of the RTA in each community improving understanding by both tenants and lessors of their rights and responsibilities.
• $10,623 to the Multicultural Families Organisation Inc to assist state-wide tenants in the Farsi speaking community about their rights and responsibilities when renting, through the translation and promotion of Tenants' Union of Queensland publications.
• $12,223 to the Multicultural Development Association to provide culturally appropriate education to some newly emerging communities for tenants of culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds in the Brisbane and Logan region.
• $1,900 to Fraser Coast Tenant Advice and Advocacy Service to deliver education sessions to caravan park owners, managers and tenants in the Hervey Bay area to raise awareness of residential tenancy law.
• $6,414 to the Migrant Resource Centre Townsville Thuringowa Ltd to train key community facilitators from ten ethnic communities in tenancy law, who will then organise and deliver information sessions and training in their own language.
• $14,050 to Sunshine Coast Regional Housing Council Inc to develop a comic to provide tenancy law information for young people in Queensland.
• $25,000 to Brisbane City Council to provide information on tenancy legislation and rights and responsibilities for residents and operators of caravan parks in the Brisbane city area. The Council will also contribute an additional $29,000 in funding for the project. Workshops will be conducted in 19 caravan parks and written information will be developed and distributed at the forums.
• $1,550 to the Tenant Advice and Advocacy Service Whitsunday Inc to deliver appropriate community education to residents of boarding houses in the Whitsundays.
• $10,000 to the Vietnamese Professional Society - Qld Chapter to translate the Residential Tenancies Authority's Form 17A - "Information Statement - Renting in Queensland". Workshops will also be conducted on tenants' rights and responsibilities for members of the Vietnamese community in Brisbane.
• $12,000 to Ngoonbi Co-operative Society Ltd to deliver a culturally appropriate education program for the local indigenous community in the Kuranda area to raise awareness of tenants' rights and responsibilities.
• $12,200 to Cairns and District Regional Housing Corporation Ltd to deliver five, two-day tenant awareness workshops to tenants of Cairns and District Regional Housing Corporation Ltd.