Reference Groups

A number of people have asked “how much work is involved with a reference group?”

If you put your hand up for one of our reference groups we do not expect you to attend meetings - lets face it we are all busy and the shire covers a large area.  What we want is your time with input to the particular area of interest -  not travelling to and attending meetings.

We have to be clever how we use our time and we can do this through the internet.

As with the Cultural Heritage Working Group,  the reference groups members will be people who are already engaged with the regions heritage, that is its History, Geology, Marine, Indigenous and the Arts. It is your existing level engagement with this heritage that we would like to tap into for information, insight and ideas

We expect that you will respond to emails and those responses can be as extensive, thoughtful or as simple and brief as you want to make them.

We are not starting from scratch. You will see that the Cultural Heritage Working Group through last years Heritage Strategy has already identified that there is rich tapestry of stories in the region. The next phase is to shape these into information packages for the experience seeker, the informed traveller  - our guests who are coming to the region.