Wentworth Falls CCTV/ June 12, 2024/ Blue Mountains Gazette

Holy Trinity Anglican Church welcomes CCTV grant to stop item dumping and enhance security in Wentworth Falls.

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00:00Yeah, we're just very pleased that we've won this grant from Multicultural NSW to upgrade

00:10the security of the church site with CCTV cameras.

00:13Yeah, so there's a couple of instances that really sparked this to upgrade the security.

00:18We had a break-in earlier this year which was, they didn't get away with anything but

00:22yeah it still cost money for us to repair things.

00:25One incident a couple of years ago where a suspicious person talked to a student and

00:29they felt very unsafe and they walked back past our site, back down to school to find

00:33some safety.

00:34And if we'd had a security camera pointed at our charity bins which we're hoping to

00:38do with this grant then we would have been able to help the police with their enquiries.

00:46And hopefully as well it will discourage people from dumping all their belongings at our charity

00:50bin.

00:51And I would say that the op shop here is the best op shop in the entire Blue Mountains.

00:55The prices are ridiculously low.

00:57I'm trying to get them to raise their prices slightly but that's a debate.

01:02So yeah, come while the prices are still very low and every Friday morning during school

01:07term.

01:08And we've seen the numbers of people increase who come and receive those cheaper groceries

01:13and the fresh food that local businesses are donating.

01:16So it's great that we can actually help.

01:19So it'd be good if more people knew about that every second Friday at Community Hub.

01:27Community Hub.

01:28www.cdc.gov.au