The Office for Volunteers' Community Voices grant program provides $50,000 funding to enable several volunteer organisations to promote and market themselves to the community.

The grant program is in partnership with the Screen Studies Department at Flinders University and sees students working with volunteer organisations to produce:

• Community documentaries to be used for promotion, training or recruitment by the organisation.
• Community service announcements (television commercials) to promote, retain and recruit volunteers.

The Community Voices 2008 program opened on the 13th October 2008  and closed on 28th November 2008.

A total of 51 applications were received, of which ten (10) community groups were selected and will be connected with students from the University in the first semester of 2009.

The following groups have been approved by the Minister for Volunteers as  recipients of media product development:

• Arthritis Foundation of SA
• Baptist Care (SA) inc
• Greening Australia SA
• Royal Society for the Blind (RSB
• RSPCA
• Teen Challenge
• The National Trust of SA
• The Volunteer Service for Flinders Medical Centre
• Tutti Ensemble Inc
• WOWSAFE: Women of the West for Safe Families

The induction for the recipients of the Community Voices Program was held at Flinders University on Thursday 5 February 2009.

• Download the Community Voices Guidelines
• Download the Community Voices Application Form
• View listing of successful 2006-07 Community Voices applicants
• Contact us

See examples of community service announcements produced through the Community Voices program.

On the 25 June 2007, the then Minister for Volunteers, Hon Jennifer Rankine MP officially launched the Community Voices program at Flinders University. View photos