Where has Springboard been run?

To date the program has been delivered in: the ACT, the Sunshine Coast, Southeast NSW; Narooma (as a part of a Small Town Renewal Program); Shoalhaven in the South Coast; Cooma; Bundaberg; and South Australia (as part of the BESB Project Round 1); the Cities of Marion and Onkaparinga in Adelaide; Western Sydney (Parramatta, Blacktown and Baulkham Hills LGAs); Lake Macquarie (NSW); and the Cities of Monash, Stonington and Melbourne.  As a general rule Councils are involved and at times they have been the main driver. 

The program costs around $550 per head to deliver, and costs even less when the delivering organisation has ready access to possible participants as this reduces the marketing effort.  To date public subsidies have underpinned the program allowing the cost paid by participants to be kept below $200 each. Participants have readily been prepared to pay up to $200 per head to undertake the program, which involves nine two hour sessions.