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The Mirboo North and District Community Foundation aims to encourage and inspire local community groups, professionals and stand out individuals to think outside the box and use their creative spirit to highlight opportunities and solve complex issues within their own community.

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Make a difference as a Director

16 August 2024

The Mirboo North and District Community Foundation helps strengthen our local area through giving, facilitating and investing. We are community led both through our Board of Directors and our valued member base. We are now seeking local people who want to make a difference in our district through Board membership. If this resonates with you…

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Grants for Students going to Uni or TAFE in 2025

13 August 2024

Students of any age who are taking up tertiary level studies in early 2025 can apply to the Mirboo North & District Community Foundation for an Education Support Award to assist with the financial costs.  Applications are now open through our website and close on 20th November.  “The costs faced by local students seeking to…

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Plants for Rebuilding Gardens

02 July 2024

Last Sunday the Mirboo North Shire Hall was not only filled with hundreds of donated plants: natives, herbs, succulents, flowering shrubs, orchids, but with local community members who wanted help with rebuilding gardens.   A Day of Community and Greenery If you had a small or large gap in your garden, there was ground cover, middle…

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‘Thank You’ Party to celebrate community!

02 July 2024

The storm event on February 13th brought a life changing natural disaster right into our community.  Almost five months later it feels like a good time to take stock:  to thank everyone who has helped, to recognise those managing on-going recovery and to celebrate our response as a whole community.   The idea of the ‘Thank…

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Rebuild and Refresh our Gardens: Plants and Planting Day

11 June 2024

On Sunday 23rd June the Community Foundation is hosting a Plants and Planting Day at the Mirboo North Shire Hall thanks to the generosity of locals and neighbouring communities who are donating plants as well as their time to help the planting in gardens that have been impacted by February’s Storm event. This event has…

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Donations and Community Recovery Fund supporting Storm Cell Volunteers

06 June 2024

Thanks to a donation of $30,000 from Esso Australia to the Mirboo North Community Recovery Fund, a grant of almost $20,000 has gone to the Storm Cell Volunteers (auspiced by the MN Community Shed) to assist in completing the work on the jobs they have logged post storm.

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Free training in Mental Health First Aid – June 12th and 13th

30 May 2024

Many in the community are skilled first aiders, but how many of us are skilled at giving first aid for mental health challenges?  If you want to improve your skills, you can join a free Mental Health First Aid training course taking place in Mirboo North on Wednesday 12th and Thursday 13th of June.   …

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The Community Foundation’s story on display at Mirboo North Library

02 May 2024

This time last year the Community Foundation launched a book telling its origin story, called ‘From Rural Health to Community Strengthening’.  This book was written by Dr. Julie Fenley after much research and takes the reader from the Bush Nursing Hospital set up in 1932 through to the Aged Care facility set up in the…

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Mirboo North Recovery Fund continues to support Community

02 May 2024

The Mirboo North Community Recovery Fund in the Community Foundation continues to make small grants to support the community in recovery.   This fund was set up post-storm and has been generously supported by local donors and those further afield.     Thanks to these donors we have given out a range of small grants.  Most recently…

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The Annemieke Mein exhibition at the Gippsland Gallery, Sale

09 April 2024

A group of Mirboo North women enjoyed an opportunity to view the Annemieke Mein retrospective exhibition titled “A Life’s Work”.  This exhibition is currently being held at the Gippsland Gallery in Sale to celebrate the artists 80th birthday. Exploring Annemieke Mein’s Retrospective Exhibition The group travelled to the exhibition for free in the Mirboo North…

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Vital Signs

The Mirboo North and District Vital Signs Report illuminates what is going on in our district in a very accessible way, using publicly available and easy to read data as well as personal input from members of our various communities.