Winchelsea and District Community Safety, Health and Emergency Relief Project

This project is to maintain the health of the Winchelsea and District community by ensuring all members of the community can access resources to meet emergency needs for food, clothing, household goods and housing and by doing this reduce the impact on their physical and mental health when these needs arise.

The project worker will be able to, if required, make available to the community assistance with utility bills to prevent the disconnecting of utilities and no interest loans that can be used to fund medical and dental procedures that will improve the health of community members.

The project will benefit the community and improve the health of individual members as emergency needs for food, clothing, household goods and housing will be able to be addressed due to the presence of a project worker.

The project worker will also be able to provide assistance with managing utility bills so the health of community members is not adversely affected by loss of these services.

The no interest loans scheme will help low income community members improve their health by accessing medical and dental procedures and purchasing medical appliances that they would not otherwise be able to access.