Projects

TSWW seeks to create, foster and enable in Seymour and its environs a developing community which is environmentally, socially, economically and culturally attuned and fulfilling.

How do we see this happening?

  • By being a forum and clearing house by and through which strategies, ideas, concepts and proposals may be presented.  In so doing it will also assist individuals, groups of people, organisations and businesses in whatever way is both possible and feasible to bring to reality those things that are consistent with our Statement of purpose.
  • Regularly inform and seek the response of the community of Seymour as to our activities and proposals.
  • Providing a legal entity for the achieving of the aims in our Statement of Purpose.
  • Doing whatever else we can to achieve our statement of purpose.

Some examples of what we do and have done in the past:

Election forums

(2010 – ongoing)

2025 Mitchell Shire Election Forum at the VRI Hall in Seymour

TSWW have a history of running forums for Federal, State and Council Elections. The purpose of this is to help people to hear from candidates about the issues that they see as important and to ask questions. The forums are not lobby nights, or trying to influence the votes of people. It is all about information sharing so that our people can make informed decisions about their votes. The 2025 Council Election forum had over 70 people attend, a great turn out reflecting the local interest.

Railway bridge viaduct mural

(2019)

The mural as seen from Station Street. Photo: Nicole Reed

This project came to be from the ideas of a couple of men in our town, James Hall & Bruce Johnstone.  TSWW auspiced the project to enable them to make their dream come true as part of the Pick-A-Project program in 2018/19. The project involved working with VLine, VTrac, Mitchell Shire & VicRoads.

Newsletter

(2005-2020)

For over 15 years we produced the fortnightly e-newsletter ”WHAT’S HAPPENING” SEYMOUR & SURROUNDS” that contained events, activities and information from Seymour and the surrounding area. The newsletter ceased during COVID in 2020.

Some past newsletters are available to show you the types of things that we were helping to make people aware of: 2020 #4 / 2020 #3 / 2020 #2 / 2020 #1 / 2019 #19

See our final newsletter, concerning Corona virus (COVID-19)

Bright Ideas

(October 2011 – April 2012)

625 ‘Bright Ideas’ were collected via suggestion boxes, online and at the Community Planning Day in 2012. The Community Planning Day was attended by nearly 50 people who added new ideas and collated the ideas into themes and goals. Suggestions from community members ranged from simple requests such as ‘more trees planted’ to grander ideas of a complex of connecting trails and pathways in and around Seymour. Respondents ranged in age from 5 to 86.

The committee together with a consultant have forged the following report for comment and further input from any interested person, community group and organization that is part of the fabric of the Seymour and surrounding community. The themes generated directly reflect input from the community and aim to be a framework to inform and inspire individuals, community groups and agencies to take action to develop the Seymour community.

listofbrightideasDownload

Seymour Directory

(2008-2014)

Committee members Carol Smith, Pat Coffey and Rhonda Sanderson.

A comprehensive guide of services, facilities and Community Groups in Seymour. First launched as a booklet in 2008 it was updated in 2009 providing a much expanded listing of services and groups with over 150 local community, recreation, sporting and church groups in the Seymour area.
In 2013 a downloadable edition of the Directory was produced, updated in 2014.

seymourdirectoryDownload

2015 Community Action Plan

(produced 2005, updated 2012)

The Aim of this document was not only to introduce the residents of Seymour to their own vision for the town, but also to give people an opportunity to participate in the goals and actions set out in the plan. The information reflects the goals and actions that came directly from the public consultations held in 2004. Each area is divided into goals, actions, progress partners, target dates and milestones. The goals are the only parts of the plan that are quite fixed; the other categories were reviewed by the residents of Seymour to ensure that the plan stays on track.

Seymour 2015 Final versionDownload