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The LEAD Group Inc
The Lead Education and Abatement Design Group
Working to eliminate childhood and foetal lead poisoning
by the year 2012 and to protect the environment from lead
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SUBSCRIPTION FORM for LEAD Group Membership & DONATION FORM for LEAF (Lead Education and Abatement Fund)

PLEASE HELP US SAVE
The Global Lead Advice & Support Service (GLASS) incorporating the Lead Advisory Service Australia (LASA) run by The LEAD Group Inc

The LEAD Group would like to acknowledge the financial support of the Australian Government Department of the Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts (DEWHA) in helping to make its services possible. DEWHA has provided funding for 12 months ending 30th June 2011.

The service was first funded nationally in Financial Year (FY) 1995-6 by the Australian Federal Government, but was funded mostly by the New South Wales (NSW) State Government paying up to seven staff (four full-time equivalent wages) for FYs 1996-2005 with contributions in some years by either the Federal Government or the South Australian (SA) Government. From 1991 to May 1995 and from July 2003 to June 2006 government funding was insufficient for wages so all staff were volunteers. The service survived solely on donations and other income for the non-funded periods July-Nov 2005 and July-Oct 2007. 

The Global Lead Advice & Support Service (GLASS) run by The LEAD Group Inc, requires further funding to ensure that not only are the phones and e-mails answered over 5,000 times a year, but current information is constantly added to our website.

Unfortunately, with so much lead left in our environment – in old paint and ceiling dust in particular - the refusal of all state governments and major lead mining and lead utilising companies to fund GLASS adequately, puts thousands of children at risk of lead poisoning. In FY 1999-2000 alone we handled over 5,500 calls and distributed 53,640 items of printed information averaging over 1031 items for every week of the year: how many children did we protect from lead poisoning? The work we do has a major benefit even when you allow for the cost of us receiving wages. With a NSW Environment Protection Authority (EPA) grant of $300,000 in FY 1996-7 we were also able to pro-actively educate the community by paying a media officer and an outreach officer. No government agency or industry body is as motivated as this bunch of parents (and the caring professionals who advise The LEAD Group) to eliminate childhood lead poisoning.

We need your support to keep spreading the word about lead while we find enough funding to stay open and carry out pro-active information dissemination.

If you think that our service is worth maintaining, show your support by:

  • Making a donation to the Lead Education and Abatement Fund (LEAF). Donations over $2 are tax deductible so please fill in the form so that we can send you a receipt for tax purposes., and/or

  • Becoming a member of The LEAD Group Incorporated, by filling in the membership form , and/or

  • Writing a letter to your state and federal Ministers for the Environment, and to your Ministers for Health, asking them to ensure continued funding of the Global Lead Advice and Support Service Australia (GLASS).

    Your support is very much appreciated. The current appeal aims to gather enough donations to cover the costs of my attendance at the 6th Global Partnership Meeting (6GPM) of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) Partnership for Cleaner Fuels and Vehicles (PCFV) which will be held during the last week of January 2008. Among other things to be discussed at 6GPM will be the completion of the PCFV's global campaign to phase out leaded gasoline (leaded petrol) for road use.

    Elizabeth O’Brien
    President, The LEAD Group Inc
    Partner, UNEP Partnership for Cleaner Fuels and Vehicles (PCFV)

 

The community cost of each lead poisoned child (ie for each 10 µg/dL rise in lead in blood) is $10,280 in remedial education costs, health costs and lost earning potential. When compared to the call cost of LASA’s FY 1999-2000 service, if only one of 246 calls results in preventing one child from exceeding the Australian goal, the service is cost effective.

 

Print the form and fax or mail your subscription or donation (see below). [Printable version PDF of this file]
Donations over $2 are tax deductible. On-line membership donation form
The purpose of the Lead Education and Abatement Fund (L.E.A.F.)  is to support the environmental objects of The LEAD Group Incorporated, that is to protect the environment from lead.
 Please accept my membership application and/or donation:

¸ $5.00 annual membership (non-corporate rate)

¸ $132.00 annual membership (corporate rate)

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"The LEAD Group" being for membership

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¸ Please charge the amount of $____________

to my ¸ Visa Card ¸ Master Card (tick one) payable to:
"LEAF" (Lead Education and Abatement Fund) being for a donation

 

Please Print & Mail form & payment to:
The LEAD Group Inc.
PO Box 161
Summer Hill NSW 2130 Australia
OR fax the form to:
+61 2 9716 9005
OR phone us with your credit card details on:
+61 2 9716 0966
Freecal - 1800 626 086 (Australia only)

 

 

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The LEAD Group Inc is endorsed as an Income Tax Exempt Charitable entity under subdivision 50-B of the Income Tax Assessment Act 1997. The Lead Education and Abatement Fund (L.E.A.F) is a public fund listed on the Register of Environmental Organisations under Item 6.1.1 of subsection 30-55(1) of the Income Tax Assessment Act 1997 and is endorsed as a Deductible Gift Recipient under subdivision 30-BA of the Income Tax Assessment Act 1997

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