Council & Business
15 August, 2025
Locals invited to design logo
Central Goldfields Shire Council are calling on primary and secondary school kids to create a logo for their Cool Spaces project.
Local students are encouraged to submit their hand drawn or digitally created logo by September 10, with the winning design to be used, around town and across the projects campaign materials.
The Cool Spaces project aims to help the community adapt to the changing climate, particularly extreme heat, by sign-posting areas residents can cool off.
Central Goldfields Shire mayor Grace La Vella said the project will help those in the community most vulnerable including those over 65-years-old, babies and children, those with health conditions, or socially isolated people.
“In our shire there are many in the community who are vulnerable to heat stress, which can cause heart attack, stroke and other health complications. In fact, more people have died in heatwaves than in any other natural disaster in Australia,” she said.
“We also know some people’s homes are not air conditioned or their air conditioning is inadequate. So the Cool Spaces awareness projects, which are springing up around Australia and across the world, are a community minded way of us caring for our residents.”
As the project develops local community groups and other organisations will be able to nominate halls, clubrooms and other suitable sites to open as Cool Spaces.
However, to know where they are the shire needs a logo, one Cr La Vella hopes the shire’s talented young residents will create.
“We’re calling out to young people to design a special logo, to show people where there are safe cool spaces around our shire to escape dangerously hot conditions.”
Student’s hand drawn or digitally created logo can be emailed to genevieve.barlow@cgoldshire.vic.gov.au by September 10, 2025.
Prizes include double passes to Maryborough’s Paramount Cinema.
Further information can be found on council’s Engage website.