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1 August, 2022

Local groups share in over $33,000 for community projects

Fourteen local community groups will share in over $33,000 in funding for a host of projects, ranging from volunteer training, facility extensions and a community festival. The groups received a share of $33,250 last week as part of the Central...

By Riley Upton

Some 14 local community groups have received a total $33,250 in funding to support their initiatives and projects.
Some 14 local community groups have received a total $33,250 in funding to support their initiatives and projects.

Fourteen local community groups will share in over $33,000 in funding for a host of projects, ranging from volunteer training, facility extensions and a community festival.

The groups received a share of $33,250 last week as part of the Central Goldfields Shire Council’s 2022/23 Community Grant program.

An annual funding initiative, the program provides grants to community-based organisations looking for financial support to deliver activities, programs, small events, equipment and infrastructure.

Community groups to receive funding include the Talbot Farmers Market which received $1200 for a website redesign, the Maryborough Girl Guides who received $2250 for new audio-visual equipment and St John Ambulance Maryborough with just over $2000 for promotion and training for 10 volunteers.

The Maryborough Lawn Tennis club received $4000 for floor upgrades, Maryborough Midlands Historical Society will purchase a new laptop and digital scanner for Worsley Cottage with $1300 and the Maryborough Horse Riding Club will install a competition standard dressage and show jumping arena with their $5100 in funding.

Central Goldfields Shire mayor Chris Meddows-Taylor congratulated the grant recipients.

“Community groups are the backbone of our shire and the community grants program is an opportunity to support those who do so much,” he said.

“There is a wide range of community groups who applied this year and it’s great to see so many wonderful activities happening across the shire.

“Congratulations to all the successful applicants — we know there are many worthwhile projects set to be undertaken.”

Dunolly Today Tomorrow received $2000 to reinstate the Dunolly Gold Rush Festival, set to take place at the end of October.

Group president Brian Phillips said reviving the 50-year-old festival was a way to promote Dunolly and the region.

“The festival originally started in 1971 and has had a multi-staged past but wound up in 2006 and we’ve been trying to bring it back for the past three years,” he said.

“The festival is something that we see as an opportunity to reinvigorate Dunolly, we are a bit of a sleepy hollow and this is a chance for us to change that.”

The festival is set to take place on Saturday, October 22 and Sunday, October 23 and Mr Phillips said the grant funding from council would go a long way in supporting its revival, which will offer something for everyone.

“We’ve done extensive legwork — we’re having the Dunolly Gold Rush Music Festival at the Dunolly Golf Club on the Saturday which will be a lot of fun and then on Sunday, we’re having the Dunolly Gold Rush Festival in the Gordon Gardens,” he said.

“The grant we’ve received is just fantastic, we can’t do this without the support of the council and it’s not just money they’re helping us with, they’re providing bollards and temporary fencing and things as well.

“There will be so much going on and we’re really looking forward to it.”

Maryborough Little Athletics also received $5000 for new wireless timing gates, which secretary David Tull said will streamline processes at the athletics track.

“We are very excited to receive this funding. Our current timing gates are around 20 years old and one just broke last week, so this funding couldn’t have come at a better time,” he said.

“These new wireless gates will make set up easier and because of the software and hardware upgrades, everything talks to each other meaning our athletes will get more accurate times for their events.”

Dunolly Today Tomorrow secretary John Tully and president Brian Phillips welcomed funding to support the Dunolly Gold Rush Festival, which will make a return later this year.
Dunolly Today Tomorrow secretary John Tully and president Brian Phillips welcomed funding to support the Dunolly Gold Rush Festival, which will make a return later this year.
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