Atlantic Eagle Community Fund

 

The Atlantic Eagle Community Fund has been established from funds the Albany Port Authority negotiated through the grounding of the ship, the Atlantic Eagle in July 2008. A fee of $250,000 was charged to allow the Atlantic Eagle’s ship owners to leave the rudder on the seabed and provide a benefit to the local community.

 

The rudder has since been placed in King George Sound off Seal Island and is now another popular dive spot close to the HMAS Perth.

A call to community groups and not for profit organisations was made last July to use the fund.Thirty one applications were received with the total amount of requests coming to over $700,000. With the fund oversubscribed it was a challenging task assessing the applicatiosn which all had great community benefit.

 

The following groups were successful in recieving funds from the Atlantic Eagle Community Fund:

Organisation	Project/Event
Albany Maritime Foundation Inc	Albany Maritime Interpretation Project;
Albany Maritime Foundation Inc	Interpretive and Gallery Space Completion
City of Albany	Interpretation and the Anzac Peace Park
Department of Fisheries WA	Community Monitoring Program for Introduced Species in King George Sound and Princess Royal Harbour
Department of Water	Trial Transplanting seagrasses in Princess Royal Harbour
Great Southern TAFE	Port Theme Public Art Murial
Green Skills Inc	Weed management in Mount Clarence reserve adjacent to port land
Mission to Seafarers	Air-conditioning and insulation upgrade
North Albany Senior High School (Art department)	Harbour Impressions - years 11 and 12 art
Southern Edge Arts	The Colour of Forgetting - 25 years celebration performance, maritime stories and themes
Stella Maris Seafarers Centre	Building upgrade
WA Seabird Rescue Inc - Albany	Veterinarian Medical Trust Fund
Western Australia Museum Albany	Port Interpretation - refurbishmnet of the Residency Museum

The Port looks forward to working with these groups and in bringing you the results of the projects.