2019-03-12 P&E Agenda - Item 7 - Attachment 1 - NBRF FY17-18 Annual Report

                                                    NOOSA BIOSPHERE RESERVE FOUNDATION - 2017/18




7. COMMUNICATION & COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT


During 2017/18 NBRF dramatically increased its presence through media releases, Facebook and our website. We
contracted the part time services of a communications expert, Alison Cooper, who has been very effective for us.
A lot of our publicity has been around our project initiatives which have been well received.

We gained significant community engagement through our grants programs.

This is an area we will keep developing in the future.




8. LINKS TO COUNCIL


We are grateful for the access we have to Councillors and Council staff which we use frequently. On average we
give an informal update to Councillors each quarter and formally report twice a year.




9. WORKING WITH THE NOOSA COMMUNITY BIOSPHERE ASSOCIATION


Unfortunately the NCBA has been through a management crisis and is working hard to re-establish itself.

NBRF funded a Biosphere Day for NCBA which was initially rained off in October 2017 but was successfully
implemented in November 2018.

We are committed to helping NCBA however we can as an important community part of the NBR.