VOLUNTEERS SUPPORT FUND

373 Dr McFETRIDGE (Morphett) (11 September 2012).

1. How much money was allocated by the government in 2012 for the Volunteers Support Fund, the Community Voices Grant Program, the Sustainable On-Line Community Engagement Program and any other volunteer support grants?

2. List all grant recipients that received grant monies for 2010 and 2011 and how much money each recipient received from the Volunteers Support Fund, the Community Voices Grant Program, the Sustainable On-Line Community Engagement Program and any other volunteer support grants?

The Hon. A. PICCOLO (Light—Minister for Communities and Social Inclusion, Minister for Social Housing, Minister for Disabilities, Minister for Youth, Minister for Volunteers): I am advised:

1. In 2012, the South Australian government allocated the following funding to volunteer support grant programs, through the Office for Volunteers:

$150,000 to the Volunteer Support Fund;

$80,000 to the Free Volunteer Training Grants Program;

$50,000 to the Community Voices Program;

$50,000 to the Sustainable Online Community Engagement Program;

$38,135 to the Corporates4Communities Program; and

approximately $300,000, over three years (2010-13), was provided as administrative support to key volunteer resource centres including Volunteering SA&NT, Northern Volunteering SA and Southern Volunteering SA.

2. Grant recipients that received grant monies in 2010 and 2011 from the abovementioned volunteer support grant programs included:

a total of 115 community organisations in 2010 and 83 in 2011 which received grants through the Volunteer Support Fund;

Flinders University which received $50,000 in both years to deliver the Community Voices Program;

The University of South Australia which received $50,000 in both years to deliver the Sustainable Online Community Engagement Program;

Heta Incorporated which received $36,125 in both years to deliver the Corporates4Communities Program;

until 2012, the Free Volunteer Training Grants program had been delivered by:

Volunteering SA&NT which received $40,000 in both years;

Naracoorte Lucindale District Council which received $20,000 in both years; and

Port Augusta City Council which received $20,000 in both years.

Volunteering SA&NT, Northern Volunteering SA and Southern Volunteering SA will receive funding over three years (2010-13) as administrative support for their operations. Volunteering SA&NT will receive $204,344, Northern Volunteering SA $46,446 and Southern Volunteering SA $46,446.