Sponsors and Supporters
The Barossa Council
The Barossa Council is committed to supporting and enhancing opportunities for the young people in the Barossa region. This is achieved with collaboration and support for projects, by and for young people, in addition to Council initiated projects, events and programs.
Council employs a part time Coordinator Youth Services who is responsible for working with youth service providers, schools and young people to advocate for youth needs and address issues by building on the community’s commitment to youth development. The Coordinator Youth Services is also actively involved in The Youth Advisory Committee of the Barossa.
Light Regional Council
Light Regional Council acknowledges its accountability to its residents and ratepayers for the creation and fostering of community values and safeguarding ratepayer funds. This is achieved by the adoption and monitoring of corporate strategies, plans, policies and performance. At Light Regional Council, the staff and elected members embrace the following three clear and truly core values whichgo to the heart of the Council’s ideology. These values express how the Council operates, lives, breathes and expresses itself through its daily duties in a clear and succinct manner;
- Leadership
- Environmental and Financial Sustainability
- Respect, Honesty and Integrity
As Council harnesses its vision and aspirations encompassed by its core values of operation, it leads to a future of benefits for the residents, ratepayers and visitors of the region.
Vine Inn Barossa
The Vine Inn Barossa is a community owned hotel in Nuriootpa, that has won the AHA Awards Best Community Hotel, for several years. This is because they are dedicated to helping their local community, including Youth Barossa.
“The idea of it all is about helping kids. Adults can generally look after themselves to a degree,” said Chris Linden, CEO of the Vine Inn Barossa. “Certainly as a business we try and help adults, but one of our priorities is to care for disadvantaged children. “As a personal point, I think it’s incumbent on us to support kids, because if we don’t support kids to become decent adults we’re not going to have a whole lot of decent adults.”
From a local point of view, each year the Vine Inn holds a charity golf day, which receives outstanding support from the community and suppliers, and the majority of revenue raised goes to the Social Justice Fund.
Chris believes that you hear plenty of the negatives that happen within our community, but there are so many kind, generous, heartfelt people who don’t look for or receive the acknowledgement they deserve. “If we can create one more positive little human being then we’ll be happy,” said Chris.
Youth Affairs Council of South Australia:
YACSA is made up of over three hundred members from across South Australia. Among them are individuals (both under and over 25), organisations that work with young people, and youth networks from all over the state.
YACSA is the peak body that represents both young people and the sector that supports them. We provide advice and knowledge that is informed by the thoughts, opinions and ideas of young people and the sector.
Their primary role is to represent and advocate with and for young people and the youth sector in South Australia and undertakes the key peak body functions including:
- Research, policy development, advice and analysis.
- Information dissemination
- Capacity building
- Consultation and coordination
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