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A workshop to find out more about how to work with your local schools to develop partnerships for facility use and improvement. There will be speakers from the Department of Education and Training, local councils and schools.

Theme: Palm Beach to Coogee - How far can your team walk?
Be a part of this premier, world-class 100km trek. Challenge yourself to achieve extraordinary endurance goals and raise funds for The Fred Hollows Foundation.

Teams can choose from 3 exciting events:

Team of 4 - trek 100km in under 36 hrs
Team of 4 - trek 50km in under 18 hrs
Relay team of 6 - trek 2 x 50km in under 36 hrs
All teams to consist of 50% women.

Theme: The National Standards for Involving Volunteers in Not-For-Profit Organisations represent Volunteering Australia's benchmark for "best practice" in the management of volunteers. Participants will be able to make an informed decision regarding the implementation of the National Standards within their own organisations. The topics covered are:

o The importance and intent of the National Standards
o Developing an implementation plan
o Key issues and critical success factors to implementation
o Minimising obstacles to implementation

Clare Dallat and Deb Ajango are both experts in Risk Management in the outdoors and have agreed to present a series of one-day workshops around Australia during the first two weeks of April 2010.

The proposed format for the workshop days will be a morning of risk management theory which will include:

oWhat is risk?
o Risk consciousness
o Communicating risk
o Compliance with regulatory requirements

The afternoon will consist of a facilitated critical incident scenario.

Participants from many different sectors will include physical & mental health, planning, tourism, community development, education, conservation, climate change, government, policy development or park management.

With over two hundred sessions across five days the Congress will raise awareness of recent research, highlight case studies and facilitate discussion regarding advantages of, and opportunities for, future collaboration across sectors at local through to global levels, and nurture a truly sustainable society, which recognises its dependence upon, and place within, the natural environment.

If you are passionate about our industry, we would love to hear from you! We feel this event will benefit everyone involved in outdoor recreation and education. Remember our main aim for GACO is to promote the benefits of camping and encourage people to get into the Great Outdoors!