The official Website of the NSWSES Volunteers Association Incorporated

Welcome to the website of the NSW SES Volunteers Association

The NSW SES Volunteers Association website exists to provide a variety of information for its members including a discussion forum, photo gallery, updates on SESVA activities, a download repository and general information and news that may be of interest to NSW SES members.

Note that you need to be logged in to see most of the content on this site (e.g. discussion forums, SESVA meeting minutes etc).

More information about this site can be found here.

Volunteer Consultative Council - Request for Expressions of Interest

Submitted by steve on May 8, 2010 - 7:00pm

The NSW State Emergency Service Volunteers Association (SESVA) has, in consultation with the Commissioner Murray Kear, requested the Minister for Emergency Services the Honourable Steve Whan to enshrine the SESVA in the SES Act 1989 as amended. This has been achieved with the implementation of the “State Emergency Service Amendment (Volunteer Consultative Council) Bill 2010.

Community Referral Partnership with NAB

Submitted by steve on May 8, 2010 - 6:45pm

The NSW State Emergency Service Volunteers Association (SESVA) has entered in to a Community Referral Partnership with the National Australia Bank (NAB).

This partnership will be beneficial to SES Volunteers, through the SESVA, when they and/or their family or friends take out a qualifying lending product(s) with NAB,the bank then will pay an up-front commission for qualifying Home Lending & Business Lending products to the SESVA. This income will then be distributed to Units through their Regions.

Emergency services 'super-department' scrapped

Submitted by steve on April 7, 2010 - 9:36am
Source: 
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2010/04/07/2865935.htm

A clash of cultures has led to the break-up of the super-department covering police and emergency services in New South Wales.

The department was created under the previous premier Nathan Rees as part of a shake-up of the public sector.

But it was vigorously opposed by the Rural Fire Service (RFS) Association who feared the agency's independence and funding would be compromised.

The Emergency Services Minister Steve Whan says he has listened to the concerns of frontline volunteer organisations.

SESVA Proposes SES Volunteers Joint Consultative Council

Submitted by steve on February 23, 2010 - 8:06pm

The SESVA has a very good working relationship with the SES management and both the current State Government and the State Opposition. However, as an association, it currently has no legal standing within the State Emergency Service legislation. This is why the SESVA is working with the NSW Government to have the association formally recognised in legislation and to develop a robust volunteer consultation model.

2009 SESVA Scholarship Winners

Submitted by steve on November 16, 2009 - 10:35pm

The NSW SESVA is proud to be a partner with the New South Wales Government and New South Wales State Emergency Service (SES) in the provision of scholarships for ten SES volunteers worth a total of $15,000.

Scholarship winners will share the skills and knowledge they gain through the courses they undertake and this will help build a smarter, more responsive Service better able to meet the needs of the community and to deal with future challenges such as advancements in technology and climate change. Volunteers will undertake study in such diverse areas as flood and emergency management, geographic information systems, expedition medicine, search and rescue and casualty simulation.

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