Volunteers play a critical role in times of disaster, and to better prepare for future events, Byron Shire Council, together with emergency response organisations, local services and groups will be holding three information sessions about volunteering in a disaster.
Council staff say, ‘The sessions are a chance for the community to learn more about responding to disasters – like the 2022 floods, and more recently Ex-Tropical Cyclone Alfred – through spontaneous volunteering’.
‘There’ll be short presentations, information stalls and some light refreshments during each of the two-hour events’, they say.
Session times
The free sessions will be held: Tuesday, July 29 from 6pm till 8pm at St Martin’s Church Hall, Mullumbimby (38-40 Stuart Street); Wednesday, July 30 from 6pm till 8pm at Ocean Shores Public School Hall (166 Shara Boulevard); and Saturday, August 2 from 1pm till 3pm at Marvell Hall, Byron Bay (37 Marvell Street).
The sessions will also include short presentations from local community resilience hub group representatives.
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