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The Foundation A Year in Review 2013

The Foundation A Year in Review 2013

To all our dear friends,

We would sincerely like to thank all of our partners who have so generously given so much of their time to support our foundation and cause.  Without your help none of what we have achieved in the last 12-months would have been feasible.  We are truly blessed to have your support and recognise every single persons input as invaluable.

The board of directors of the foundation will focus our attention on changing attitude in our youth to pre-fuelling, binge-drinking and the current opinion that its "cool to be drunk".  Associated within this is alcohol-fuelled violence which led to the tragic death of our beautiful son Thomas in July 2012 that has left our family decimated.

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MEDIA RELEASE: New CCTV Cameras in Sydney's hot spots 09.12.2013

For Immediate release:                                         Monday 09th December 2013

 NEW CCTV CAMERAS TO HELP PREVENT VIOLENCE IN SYDNEY ‘HOT SPOTS’

The Thomas Kelly Youth Foundation, welcomes today the City of Sydney’s swift action in supporting an additional ten (10) CCTV cameras to be located in the Kings Cross area, the CBD and Surry Hills. They will add to Sydney’s existing 87 Street Safety CCTV cameras.

Since Thomas’ death, Ralph and Kathy Kelly have been strong advocates for additional CCTV cameras in key “hotspot” areas identified across the city and Darlinghurst. 

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