Editorial

The LEAD Group has recently developed a new group strategic plan for FY2015. We would like to outline what we have planned for this financial year:

• Implement financial planning actions such as budgeting for operating costs, auditing the current cost of VAP and other projects, exploring other possibilities for kit sales and SEO, researching sponsorship opportunities etc.
• Develop our internship and volunteering program through use of university internship, career volunteer websites and other opportunities. We will also reconnect with our previous providers such as Seek and advertise our position there. Set targets with KPI for the various tasks to be carried out by volunteers and interns.
• Enact our planned strategies for promoting our unique offerings (expertise, information and services provided both online and offline, the only Australian tax deductible gift fund focused on Lead Safety in the environment, kits and lab reports, social contribution opportunities aimed at big profit organisations).
• Enact our planned strategies for specific revenue streams such as GLASS, LSWP and VAP.

The Lead Safe World website will continue to promote lead safety actions that everyone can take, anywhere in the world, rather than being a broad-ranging archive of information about the history of lead, the health effects of lead, sources of lead contamination, etc., as our existing web site is ( www.lead.org.au).

We have continued to add to the Partners section
 ( http://www.leadsafeworld.com/partners/) and this section informs visitors of our Lead Safe World website and companies and when visiting the website about products and organisations which help manage lead poisoning and lead contamination. These organisations and products will be easily-identified by the Logos: ‘Lead Free’, ‘Lead Safe’ and ‘Lead Away.’

Having said this, we would like to extend our invitation to all partnerships and companies with proven solutions to lead problems, lead-free products and lead-safe services, to join us.

This issue of LEAD Action News also promotes the 2014 Lead-Safe World Volcano Art Prize; each month of the year will be illustrated by a winning art entry on the subject of lead safety. A further 13 finalists in the art competition, will receive a Pictureproducts mug as their prize. All the entries are awaiting your review and voting for the People’s Choice Award at https://volcanoartprize.com/peoples-choice/ so get your entries in and vote now!

See below for more information and images from our latest entrants. Good luck and get creating, creative people!