Taste Orange

	Orange City Council The Municipality of Orange was established in 1860 to cater for a population of 400 within a village area of one square mile. Orange was proclaimed a city in 1946, and today with more than 38,000 residents, is a thriving regional city with 12 Councillors and a dedicated staff to help run and maintain the city. Orange City Council is one of the founding partners of Taste Orange. Click here to download the Orange City Council 2012 Event Calendar

	Harvey Norman Orange Harvey Norman is Australia's leading retail chain, with more than 195 stores across the country offering a huge range of home, office and mobile products. Harvey Norman Orange, always supporting the local community and always offering the best price and the best service in the Central West for electrical, furniture, computers and much more.

	Mental Health Services The NSW Government is expanding services in the Greater Western Area Health Services for people with a mental illness, their families and carers and for people with problems associated with substance misuse. There are excellent opportunities now and into the future for employment with the Mental Health and Drug & Alcohol (MHDA) Program across community and inpatient settings and across the diverse communities of the Greater Western AHS from regional to rural to remote. The MHDA Program is an innovative and unique service that is continually reflecting on and developing, tailored service models for the wide range of communities in our large catchment area. Opportunities are now available for medical, nursing, and allied health staff in our expanding campus at Bloomfield in Orange and in facilities and services across the Area. The re-development of the historic and beautiful site of Bloomfield will consist of relocation of existing units into new facilities and new specialist MHDA inpatient units including * Child and Adolescent * Acute * Intensive Care and High Dependency Units for Adults * Older Peoples Acute and Non Acute Units * a suite of Forensic Units and * Rehabilitation Units
	Events Support Group The Events Support Group (ESG) is a collaboration of members of event committees including F.O.O.D, Wine Week, Slow Summer, Frost Fest, Farmers Markets, Stay Orange, TOWAC Co-operative and Village Committees. They have combined their formidable marketing and operational experience to continue to build on partnerships with existing businesses and attract new business partners to deliver broader benefits by underwriting and enhancing existing regional events, providing some economies of scale across events, as well as develop future regional marketing initiatives. The new voluntary group comprises a management group whose role will be to oversee the management and use of partnership investments, an administrator and local Councils. The administrator will be Taste Orange due to its current involvement in the marketing of regional tourism in Orange, its management structure and its proven ability to garner support and deliver results. The role of Taste Orange as administrator of the group, will be to procure and manage business partnerships, marketing and administration. The objective of the ESG is to work collaboratively to facilitate the procurement, management and delivery of guaranteed local, state and national business partnerships for promotion of regional events, so as to provide uniformity, continuity and sustainability, enhancing existing events and generating a productive environment to investigate new events. Further, to promote the Orange region through innovative and diverse marketing activities with potential to significantly increase business partnerships, whilst ensuring that those business partners realise an enduring return on investment. For more information contact Rhonda Sear Taste Orange Executive Officer E. rhonda@tasteorange.com.au P. 02 6360 1990

Events Support Group