ZERO EMISSIONS NOOSA (ZEN) Inc. ALLIANCE AGREEMENT · Attachment 7 ZEN Inc. Alliance Agreement Annual Report 2025

 $17,150 (ex-GST)            Communications Package
                             Having funding in 2024-2025 to start working with a professional PR & Marketing
                             company has greatly assisted ZEN Inc. to boost it it’s reach to drive greater
                             community engagement & behaviour change. They are key to the Noosa
                             Community making the transition to net zero.
                             Some additional funding for our Comms. package has enabled ZEN Inc. to engage
                             our professional marketing person for more hours per month to help us better
                             engage with our audience and get more people to ACT (change their behaviour)
                             to be part of transition to renewable energy and e transport.
                             Implementing a more strategic marketing plan for greater community
                             engagement with all projects to have greater community action.
                             It has also helped to broaden our demographic as part of our community
                             outreach.

                             This service to ZEN Inc. role includes:
                                 - Some social media
                                 - EDM’s
                                 - Project campaigns e.g. Car Free Day & Business – Save Money,
                                     Save Energy
 $3,740                      Website Rebuild (a small part only)

 $3,005.13                   Admin. Expenses incl. $ 936.38 general admin. expenses; $2,150 bookkeeper
                             & auditor;

 $7,732.65                   Grant Assoc Expenses (other than SAGE & Website design), ie Ethical Jobs
                             adverts, Squarespace, The Creative Frog, Chamber of Commerce events,
                             Xero, Noosa Graphica, Otter AI, Tourism Noosa events, Org T Shirts, HR,
                             Media, printing, etc.
 $111,964 excl. GST          actual Alliance Funding was $125,000
 spent in 2025 +
 $13,035 spent in
 2024
 Total $124,999


   8. Utilisation of 2025 Funding/Projects & Status/Time frames
All but one of ZEN Inc’s funded projects in 2025 have been, or will be completed, within the required
timeframe. The Noosa Council grant for Energy Assessments and Upgrades for Low Income and
Vulnerable Households, required a variation to re-focus the project, due to the difficulty of engaging with
organisations to select the households to be involved.
The Go Car Free Day project, again funded by Council, was due to be acquitted on 15 Dec., 2025.
However, this funding was not expended on all items listed in the approved budget due to Go Car Free
Day falling in the school holidays in Qld. This made it difficult to engage with locals, so the project was
reoriented, with the agreement of the Council Climate Change Officer. The timeframe was extended to
April 2026, with the remaining funds being transferred to the ebike library project enabling it to continue
operation longer than it was previously funded. The e bike library is a key way to remind people about
how they can Go Car Free.


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