Successful applicants in the latest round of graffiti grants:

Approved Applicant Project Title Project Description Amount Graffiti Rapid To purchase a specialised g raffiti trailer and equipment $19,990 Removal used to remove graffiti.

Shire of Cunderdin Cunderdin Anti- To purchase exit tag graffiti remover and anti- graffiti $4,695 Graffiti Project coating.

City of - Airless Mobile Spray To purchase an airless mobile spray unit to assist the $7,900 Boulder Unit city’s graffiti buster team and community groups to clean up graffiti in the city. The unit will provide the graffiti buster team with the ability to paint over offending and racist graffiti very quickly. The system provides lots of paint in a very short time to an area. It is also extremely accurate in its delivery, enabling the operator to place covering to a fine edge. Midland PCYC PCYC Graffiti To continue to employ a youth worker/mentor who $18,392 Removal Program engages well with the young people providing mentoring and counselling to reduce graffiti. They will retain the services of this person to work in partnership with the police officer -in-charge of Midland PCYC. Midland PCYC graffiti removal program is the only program dealing with Juvenile Justice Teams (JJT) referrals of young people to a graffiti program. JJT referrals require one-on-one supervision and mentoring. Rapid Removal For Purchase g raffiti removal equipment, paints and safety $17,269 Rockingham equipment. Residents Wipe Out Graffiti To purchase graffiti removal equipment, provide $20,000 training for volunteers and deliver a Wipeout Graffiti Education Program. Graffiti Removal To purchase a Blast Jet 10 HP Diesel cold water high $12,799 Equipment pressure cleaner.

Shire of Carnarvon CCTV for Carnarvon The funds will be used to consolidate the shire’s $20,000 Townsite existing CCTV infrastructure and make it more efficient, and to install additional cameras to the areas identified. This will improve security for shire-owned and privately-owned premises. Mobile Anti Graffiti The purpose of this proposal is to purchase a CCTV $20,000 Unit camera and recording device fitted with an IP addressable transmitter to enable live, secure monitoring via the internet. Rapid Deployment $11,520 To purchase a mobile CCTV unit for deployment at CCTV identified graffiti hotspots within the city. Pinjarra CCTV To install a co-ordinated CCTV system in the Shire of $20,000 Project Stage 2 Murray CBD area.

Shire of Dardanup Bunbury and Districts To remove current graffiti from the club rooms and $10,200 Softball Association redesign the area in front of the club rooms by Club Rooms implementing Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design.

Shire of Roebourne Graffiti Removal Blitz To fund the consultancy services and travel expenses $20,000 and Anti Graffiti of a consultant with the capacity to conduct a Crime Coating Prevention Through Environmental Design (CPTED) and Lighting Audit with a Crime Risk Assessment that focuses on the incidence of graffiti in the shire’s five towns. Town of Vincent Vincent Anti Graffiti To purchase and install three solar lights on poles to $20,000 Solar Lights light up identified hotspot areas in an attempt to deter vandalism, illegal graffiti and associated criminal behaviour. Merredin Apex Park To install security lighting in Apex Park, which would $11,300 Graffiti Removal improve the use of public spaces and assist in reducing the number of graffiti incidents. Motley Hue This project will see the engagement of two $6,000 professional artists across three consecutive days to workshop and guide 14 local skaters through a creative process involving design concepts to the final implementation of a colourful mural covering the concrete surfaces at the Boyanup Skate Park. Artrage Inc The Yard $19,340 The purpose of this proposal is to run The Yard (Aerosol Art, Design & Mural Workshops) in Armadale. Participants will learn about design, illustration and drafting murals and will then design a mural within a group. The Artrage Complex on James Street houses a professional gallery, where the final exhibition will be held. The building already has special status for target participants as it is located on the train-line, and has one of most impressive and sizable pieces of Urban Art in Australia on its facade, commissioned with 30 urban artists in 2009 by Western Power and Artrage.

City of Cockburn GAAA RT Graffiti Ain't The GAAART project will target Year Nine students at $15,000 Always Art Lakelands Senior High School, South Lakes. The project is an urban art (bus shelters) project with an educational unit and a series of nine art workshops. Shire of Derby/West Youth Centre $19,500 Kimberley Precinct: Urban Art The Shire of Derby/West Kimberley Youth Centre Score Project precinct is located in an open public access park area and includes a skate park, youth centre building and the recently-built half-basketbal l court and a toilet block with further development proposals including a mini- soccer field and lighting to extend safety and the hours of accessibility. This urban project covers three locations that have been graffiti targets - skate park, youth centre building and youth centre and town oval toilet blocks; skate park, youth centre building, youth centre; and town oval basketball court.

Shire of Katanning Youth Art Workshops The project will assist in the prevention of $5,000 graffiti/vandalism in the Katanning community through educational art workshops and providing diversionary activities. Paint by Colours The project will engage local youth in an artistic $2,705 capacity through a school holiday program to paint a town water tank. Nannup has seen an increase in tagging incidents in the past 12 months and the location of the water tank makes it a target for graffiti, both from local residents and travellers passing through town.

Rockingham PCYC The Right to Write The program is about teaching young offenders how to $20,000 Graffiti Reduction do proper art pieces on canvas and walls to deter them Program from tagging and graffiti. The program is tailor-made for young offenders aged 12 to 17 who will be referred by the JJT, local police officers and other youth agencies. The program provides education, mentoring and discipline. Town of Port Young Offenders The project is based on an early intervention and $11,000 Hedland Graffiti Removal restorative justice approach whereby juvenile Program offenders (on either a Community Based Order or a JJT ‘Action Plan’ agreement) carry out graffiti removal work with the ’s Graffiti Removal Crew under the supervision of either a CYJS Community Works supervisor or a nominated member of the police. The program will run once a week for two hours (outside of school hours). St Matthew's Legal Ink This project involves running a ‘legal ink’ project $20,000 Anglican Parish targeting young people 13 to 17- years-old who are currently tagging local businesses, street signs, churches, etc. Participants will be taught design and colour techniques by a team of artists and mentors and encouraged to use their talents creatively and legally rather than in destructive and illegal ways. Two sets of workshops will run concluding in November with an art exhibition. Respect Your Place The Respect Your Place project is a joint initiative $7,250 between the Shire of Wickepin, local police and primary schools. Local police will conduct education sessions at the three local primary schools to highlight the negative effects of graffiti and vandalism and consequences of this behaviour. These education sessions will be followed by a poster campaign to reinforce the anti-graffiti message. Albany Youth Urban Arts Stencil The project will assist in the prevention of vandalism in $14,940 Support Association Project the Albany community through diversionary, Inc. educational and positive methods. Albany Youth Support’s Open Access Youth Arts Studio plans to conduct a series of 15 educational Urban Arts Stencil workshops culminating in an outdoor community exhibition. The program, facilitated by a highly respected local artist will use urban art to engage disadvantaged youth. Urban Stylin’ $17,275 To combat the high volume of graffiti in City of Swan. Hotspots are Beechboro, Lockridge, Ellenbrook, Bullsbrook and Ballajura which are hit every day with either graffiti or vandalism. In school holiday periods, graffiti can double and occasionally triple. Shire of Serpentine- Graffiti Clean up The purpose of this grant is to enable the Serpentine $20,000 Jarrahdale Project Jarrahdale Shire to meet the increasing ongoing unbudgeted cost of the removal of graffiti vandalism for the current period and to purchase new cleaning equipment. People Against PAV Community The purpose of this proposal is to co-ordinate an $20,000 Vandalism Inc Urban Art Project Urban Art project in four communities and engage young people in community programs that challenge their perceptions of the community and build commitment to their local area. There will be an urban art project in each area which will be open to all 12 to

17-year-olds but will specifically target hard to reach/at risk youth within those communit ies. Each program will comprise a design/practice phase and will lead to the creation of a community urban art mural (two days) on a local graffiti hotspot. York Graffiti Youth The project has a two-prong approach to addressing $10,000 Art Project the graffiti problem. The first part involves holding individual graffiti taggers responsible for cleaning off the graffiti themselves. The second part involves a series of creative workshops which will be held with young people to formulate designs that will then be used to enhance the appearance of community buildings and bus shelters.

Community themes of respect, acceptance, friendship, and pride in ones community will be promoted throughout the project. City of Target Lane Mural The purpose of this proposal is to address a major $19,080 Art Project graffiti hotspot in the Target laneway between William Street and Murray Street Mall by replacing the current graffiti with mural art which will improve the ambience of the area, acknowledge t he skills of urban artists and provide an interesting walkway and location for people and businesses in the area. This project will develop mural art as a viable management tool for the city to use in appropriate areas of the city in the future to manage the continued graffiti damage. Sneaky Picture $1,500 System for Graffiti The purpose of this proposal is to purchase two trail Hotspots cameras. These will be used to acquire photographic evidence of individuals who graffiti within the area. Mobile Graffiti To purchase two portable cameras. The cameras can $20,000 Cameras be used to address major graffiti hotspots in the city which ar e currently not covered by the city’s existing on street CCTV network.