Helping communities prepare for bushfire
Sparking Conversations, Igniting Action was a joint initiative of the Greater Hobart councils – Clarence, Glenorchy, Hobart and Kingborough.
Our project team worked side-by-side with 12 different neighbourhoods, creating bushfire risk demonstration sites, holding events and giving free bushfire risk assessments.
Our efforts were to work with communities in Clarence, Glenorchy, Hobart and Kingborough to spark conversations, and ignite action that will protect us all from bushfire. The information and resources developed as a result of this pilot project, have been retained here for future use and reference for those participating communities, and for other communities in Tasmania and abroad.
Neighbourhoods
This project focused on 12 small community neighbourhoods in Clarence, Glenorchy, Hobart and Kingborough.
Each neighbourhood consisted of 100 and 150 people who worked with our team to explore ways of better preparing our homes for bushfire.
We ran workshops, events and created bushfire risk demonstration sites, to help residents learn how to better plan, prepare and respond to bushfire events.
Sparking
conversations
Research shows people want to prepare for bushfire, but often don’t know how or where to look for the right information.
By sparking conversations we want to discover how to empower people to take action to protect families and homes from bushfire.
Igniting
action
Conversations on their own won’t protect communities from the threat of bushfire, but they are the first step in taking action.
This project was all about listening, talking and igniting action, giving communities the tools and knowledge to prepare for bushfire.