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State Government Graffiti Clean-up Initiatives

Graffiti Clean-up Community Grants

The State Government's Graffiti Clean-up Community Grants encourage local councils to work with their communities to clean-up graffiti. In the two grant rounds since July 2007, 34 local councils have been funded to deliver 41 graffiti removal-focused projects in partnership with community stakeholders. Councils receive non-recurrent grants ranging $5,000 up to $25,000 per project.

The program aims to:

• help councils and local communities improve the visual amenity of their neighbourhoods through graffiti clean-up initiatives
• encourage and support local communities to take responsibility for graffiti clean-up
• provide sustainable local graffiti clean-up solutions in Victorian communities
• increase community perceptions of safety and security in public places.

The 2009–10 grant round opened in August 2009. For further information, see 2009-10 Graffiti Grants Applications NOW OPEN in the right-hand menus.

Community Correctional Services Graffiti Removal Program

The Victorian Government's Community Correctional Services Graffiti Removal Program puts offenders on community-based orders to work to clean-up graffiti from council, community and public assets. The program encourages offenders to take pride in the work they undertake as compensation for their offences, while providing them with opportunities to contribute to the beautification of local communities.

The program was expanded in 2007-08 with the addition of six new purpose-built trailers. This brought the total to 14 trailers across the state, and provided increased access for program partners (up to 26 including 18 local councils) to the clean-up crews. From July 2009, the number of program partners will increase again and the program will deliver 30 operational days per week, every week of the year.

From November 2005 to July 2009 the CCS Graffiti Removal Program has delivered the following outcomes:

• cleaned up 500,000 square metres of graffiti
• provided around 10,000 offenders with the opportunity to make reparation for their crimes
• provided over 178,000 hours of unpaid community work.

The 500,000 square metres of graffiti that has been cleaned up equates to an area the size of:

• almost 25 Melbourne Cricket Ground playing fields
• 1,900 tennis courts.