City of Port Phillip

Happy Wear it Purple Day! 💜 🌈 Wear it Purple Day strives to foster supportive, safe, empowering and inclusive environments for young people in the LGBTIQA+ community. Our Pride Network hosted a Wear it Purple Day afternoon tea for staff, where we were joined by Minus18 Foundation guest speaker Charlie Farmer. Charlie shared their story of growing up in the LGBTIQA+ community as well as the importance of active allyship and practical tips to support our friends, colleagues and clients in the rainbow community. To find out more and to support Minus18 visit: wearitpurple.org

Save the date! The iconic St Kilda Festival will return in 2025 for a weekend of summer celebrations featuring some of the biggest names in Australian music. Those longing for a splash of sunshine can pencil Saturday 15 February and Sunday 16 February, 2025 in their calendar, where the 44th annual St Kilda Festival will take place as a two-day program. We're proud to deliver the Festival, which brings significant economic benefits to St Kilda and Victoria each year. This year’s event delivered an estimated economic impact of $31.5 million, while attracting an estimated 325,000 attendees to the foreshore. Find out more via the link below. Image caption: Mallrat at St Kilda Festival 2024. Photo by Josh Braybrook https://bit.ly/4dODELn

Last week we hosted our Stand for Council event at St Kilda Town Hall in partnership with @MAV, where potential candidates heard from a range of Council Senior Leaders about what the day-to-day duties of a Councillor could look like. Becoming a candidate for the 2024 Council elections is an exciting opportunity to work with other dedicated community members and advocate to help set our organisations strategic directions and make decisions that can affect change in the City of Port Phillip. To find out more about becoming a candidate, election timelines and a typical month in the life of a Councillor in Port Phillip, check out our website: https://lnkd.in/gvfcbm7g

Our Stand for Council event, in partnership with the Municipal Association of Victoria, is coming up on 31 July.   With Council elections fast approaching in October, this information session covers all the important things that potential candidates need to know about nominating, the election process and the day-to-day work of a Councillor.   You’ll also get to hear from: Port Phillip City Council CEO Chris Carroll Melbourne City Council CEO Alison Leighton Stonnington City Council CEO Dale Dickson PSM Yarra City Council CEO Sue Wilkinson Bayside City Council Director Community and Customer Experience Tilla Buden Glen Eira City Council Director Customer and Corporate Affairs @Kellie Vise The event starts at 6 pm at St Kilda Town Hall. Find out more and register on the MAV website: https://lnkd.in/g5_WMKaa  

Are you passionate about the environment and keen to make a difference? 🌳 Applications for our August Environmental Leadership Course are now open. ♻️ This 10-week course supports you to develop and lead your own community based sustainability project and will focus on individual growth in a team-based environment. Don't have an idea yet? That's ok! The team is there to help. 💧 Find out more on our website: https://bit.ly/3LntPI3 #environmentalleader #leadershipcourse #sustainablitycourse #sustainability

St Kilda Film Festival is over for another year - and what a festival it was! We sold over 6,600 tickets to a record 56 sessions that showcased over 180 short films, plus 35 professional development events, a series of talks and arts experiences. 🎞️ We want to thank everyone who came out to support Australian short film and our local traders as part of St Kilda Film Festival 2024, and the amazing team that put the Festival together every year. 📽️ We look forward to welcoming you back in 2025!

"The playground that kids asked for" 🧒 🌲 🏉   What a great story by The Age on our recent community engagement showcasing proposed upgrades to the St Kilda Adventure Playground.   Our team worked hard to deliver an inclusive and engaging process to consult with the primary users of the playground - children. This has included a range of interactive sessions and activities like sharing playground stories, ideas for farewelling old equipment, and fun workshops with the kids who use the playground to find out what they want to see for its future.   We have also heard from Adventure Playground staff and carers of children on the functionality and accessibility of the playground.   The ideas from the children and their families have been used to develop the concept design that will continue to make this playground a magical and memorable place for generations to come.   The next round of community engagement on the project closes today, so find out more and provide your thoughts on this much love community space on our website.

Thank you to everyone who took time to have their say on the draft Council Plan and Budget (Year 4) documents. We are happy to announce, that the documents were successfully adopted by Council on 26 June 2024 and are now available online. Key changes include: ➡ An average rate increase of 2.75 per cent, which is in line with the rates cap, is lower than last year’s increase and is less than forecast inflation. ➡ The addition of three new differential rates categories – derelict land, vacant land and unactivated retail land – which will incur higher rates to encourage local development, with exemptions and appeals processes being offered. You can view our quick guide to the Year 4 changes here: https://lnkd.in/g2zWBYwQ Or access the full suite of documents on our Council Plan and Budget webpage.

📢 Calling all #personaltrainers and #recreationproviders in Port Phillip. We've recently endorsed our Commercial Recreation Policy. Following this, personal trainers and wellness providers are now invited to apply for either a personal training or commercial recreation licence. Recreation providers looking to facilitate larger group classes of more than 15 participants can now apply for a commercial recreation licence, providing more opportunities for leisure and entertainment in Port Phillip. Applications close on 16 July, find out more on our website: https://lnkd.in/geH5FPzK

This month we endorsed our Fair Access in Sport Policy and Action Plan to support women and girls’ participation in sport. This Policy aims to support positive outcomes for women and girls by building the capacity to identify and address the systemic causes of gender inequality within community sport and participation and create equitable use of our community sports infrastructure. Thanks to Change Our Game's Community Activations Grant, we were able to celebrate the launch with a breakfast panel discussion hosted by Change Our Game ambassador and Founder of @Good.Human, Rana Hussain. The panel featured local club leaders and professional athletes, including AFLW player and proboxer Tayla Harris, former WNBL and AFLW player and Women Sport Australia board member, Chantella Perera and local club leaders Megan Drysdale and Annette Maloney. The breakfast was well attended by clubs across the municipality and was a valuable and inspiring discussion for everyone who attended. We are very excited about the adoption of this policy and action plan as we work towards creating more equitable outcomes in sport across Port Phillip. You can find out more about the Policy here: https://lnkd.in/g4nUNfhd