Peel Youth Services are the most recent local charity to benefit from the Three Summers production team, who are committed to working with and supporting the Peel community after the shooting of their major feature film.
The local branch of BCF partnered with the Three Summers team, providing equipment that was featured in the movie set, and have now donated the equipment used in the film to Peel Youth Servies.
Three Summers producer Mark Anderson said the team did not just want to be a movie production that comes into a community, shoots their film, spends money while doing it and then leaves.
“We spent time getting to know the community before we shot the film and through that process, and having community members involved in the production, we gained an understanding of the needs of the community,” he said.
Peel Youth Services chief Be Westbrook said she could not believe the perfect timing of the donation of camping equipment.
“We are just in the final stages of establishing a leadership program where we are taking young people back out on country with hiking and camping,” she said.
“The equipment will enable us to reconnect the young people with each other and with country.”
Peel Youth Services focuses on early intervention engagement with young people and their families, supporting young people from 11-25 years.
They operate from a green spaces environment, using nature and connection to country as the platform in everything they do.
Through the Eyes Wide Open project they have also developed a range of specialised services for young mothers aged 14 to 25 years, from pregnancy through to being mothers.
