RTRFM Fresh Blast 2008 Project - Arts Radio LTD (trading as RTRFM 92.1) - $17,866.66

The Fresh Blast Project has confirmed funding of $25,000.00 from Healthway for 12 launches in 2008. Given the overwhelming response in 2007, RTRFM hopes to expand the project to 20 launches with additional funding from the Community Road Safety Grants Program.
The Fresh Blast Project will help 20 local bands and musicians launch and release their debut EP or album. The project provides bands with everything they need to do so successfully as well as providing a fastastic and credible means to communicate an anti drink driving message to hundreds of thousands of at risk young Perth adults.
Fresh Blast and RTRFM 92.1 are brands that Perth's young local music industry are proud to be associated with and combining these cool and credible brands with health and safety messages has already proven to be very influential. The Fresh Blast launches were used with great effect to introduce anti smoking messages in WA music venues, leading to anti smoking legislation.

Fatal Vision Goggles, Alcohol and Drug Education - WA Police Norseman - $1,395.00

This project will provide young adults aged between 16 and 18 with an informative program about road trauma. Sub topics under this title include: serious crash statistics, risk factors, hoon legislation, driving while under the influence of drugs or alcohol and a driver's rights and obligations. It is believed that the use of a fatal vision goggles kit will provide a much needed educational tool in providing the necessary material to enhance the dangers of driving if affected be either alcohol or drugs or both. In conducting previous projects the use of fatal vision goggles has been found to help engage young people and helps them grasp just how much drinking and the use of drugs can impair your perceptions and motor skills.
The project will also include a four week drug and alcohol seminar with all year six and seven students in the area. The use of fatal vision goggles in the past as a reward and fun activity for the students has been received exceptionally well. The prospect of 'having a go' with the goggles has always kept the students engaged.
There will also be a project for at risk teenagers involving the building and driving (supervised/safe environment) of dune buggies. A large part of this project will be informal education that occurs through discussions with the participants whilst building the dune buggies. The goggles will be used to illustrate the adverse effects of drugs and alcohol on the user's perceptions and the participants will be required to engage in some tasks (not driving) whilst wearing the goggles to reinforce this fact.
The goggles will also be used when conducting talks in the community as they generate useful discussion.

Sponsorship grants

Dowerin School Reunion and Centenary - Dowerin P & C - $1,000.00

Narrogin Cup - Narrogin Golf Club - $500.00