Dan Friesen is the Community and Grants Manager at the South East Regional Centre for Urban Landcare (SERCUL) and has worked at SERCUL since 2013.

Commencing work at SERCUL as a Landcare Officer, working on landcare projects south of the river and with local community groups. Dan has worked his way up to now manage the Community and Grants program at SERCUL where he applies for and manages the majority of SERCUL’s grants and securing grants for unincorporated groups. He also supports many community groups in the South region through the grant funding he has secured. Dan’s commitment to the community groups in the South region, however, goes far beyond what his job at SERCUL entails.

He regularly works both days on the weekend to help community groups run planting and weeding events and takes along planting equipment and other equipment such as BBQ’s so that the day runs smoothly. During the summer months he drops off and picks up the SERCUL watering trailer to one of the Friends of Groups on his way to and from work in his own time each fortnight.