A $900 SWCF grant will help build a sense of identity and improve the comfort of Warrnambool’s Riding for the Disabled Association (RDA) volunteers. Small grants can sometimes make the most difference in the community. A $900 grant to Warrnambool RDA to purchase embroidered fleece jumpers will help the volunteers build their sense of identity…
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A SWCF grant for $3620 is helping re-establish an indigenous food garden on the site of the former Lismore Bowls Club. When the Lismore Bowls Club was shut, and the land came up for sale, a group of passionate locals campaigned for the space to remain in public hands. Now the former bowls green is…
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Merrivale Community Association (MCA) is ready to run the third annual Sustainable Scarecrow Trail this November. As part of their “Totally Wild” project, the scarecrows will be built alongside beach clean-up walks and education workshops focussing on the environmental impacts of marine debris. MCA member Brenda…
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After all of the COVID interruptions, SWCF celebrated three years of grant recipients with a bash at Brother Fox on September 14. Grant recipients from 2020, 2021 and 2022 came together to talk about their projects, network with like-minded groups and share all of the different ways they are building capacity and connecting their communities….
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South West Community Foundation’s Colac Sub Fund celebrated the work of grant recipients from the 2020, 2021 and 2022 at Red Rock Regional Theatre & Gallery on Tuesday 13 September. Over 50 grant recipients and guests gathered for the first time in three years to celebrate the 12 community projects who have shared in over…
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South West Community Foundation, in conjunction with United Way Glenelg, is providing schools across south west Victoria with $50 gift vouchers to help families struggling with cost of living increases. Over 450 vouchers, totalling more than $22,500, will be distributed to families in need, via the students’ school. In partnership with the Foundation for Rural…
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Hamilton personal trainer Di Dixon is now at the halfway point of her Leadership Great South Coast program. Balancing the leadership program, starting a new job with Southern Grampians Shire, and her family commitments have been a challenge, but with the financial support of SWCF she is managing to achieve her goals. “With thanks to…
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SWCF Chair David McIntyre and geologist Michael Raetz joined ABC SW breakfast presenter Jeremy Lee to discuss the upcoming feature-length documentary on Tower Hill and the Belfast Coast. This project has received funding from SWCF in the 2022 Grant Round, along with 30 other local organisations. Listen back to the interview here:
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As work begins on a documentary to tell the Tower Hill and Belfast Coast story, have a look back on previous grants SWCF has provided to help enhance this amazing south west Victorian environmental and indigenous asset. Tower Hill is one of the iconic landscape features of south west Victoria, and rightly a place…
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Grant puts Tower Hill history on the big screen Port Fairy Tourist Association will be putting the ‘remarkable’ geological, ecological and cultural history of the Tower Hill volcanic structure on the big screen after receiving $12,500 in grants from South West Community Foundation’s 2022 Grant Round. South West Community Foundation is awarding more than $113,000…
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