Community Grants Archives - Page 2 of 3 - Mirboo North and District Community Foundation

What would your community organisation do with a grant of $5,000?

We are blessed with a very active community in this area. The many community organisations not only connect us, they teach us, entertain us, keep us active, protect our history, secure our environment, build assets, and keep facilities and services running for the benefit of us all. The Mirboo…

Official Reopening of the Mirboo North Pool

We are very grateful to Rob Waycott and the Mirboo North Times for allowing us to share their excellent article on the reopening of the Mirboo North Pool on our website (together with the wonderful photos taken by Elana Kovac). The Mirboo North Times is a weekly community newspaper run…

Community Foundation awards 2021 Community Grants to seven local groups

On Wednesday 24th November, the community groups who had been successful in this year’s Community Foundation grants program were announced to a room full of people at the Walter J Tuck Reserve. “It was a pleasure to be able to gather as an organisation for the first time since February,”…

Zadnick Bequest Supports New Pathology Room at Mirboo North Medical Centre

The modern medical and allied health facility being built on Ridgway by the Mirboo North and District Community Foundation (the Community Foundation), will now include a pathology room. This addition is due entirely to a generous bequest by Joe (Joze) Zadnick from Allambee South. To recognise Joe’s generosity the new…

Community Grants 2021

September is one of our favourite months at the Mirboo North & District Community Foundation. It is the month when our annual Community Grants program opens for applications and we start talking to many local community groups about projects they are planning. “It is always exciting to hear how these…

Community Grant for Hallston Hall

In May, the Community Foundation awarded a grant of $3,599 to the Hallston Mechanics Institute to support urgent roof and gutter repairs at the Hallston Hall and avoid deterioration of the internal roof structures of this much-loved community building – the only public building in Hallston. The first Hallston Hall…

Community Grant for Yinnar

The Yinnar & District Historical Society and Museum is going to expand its display area through a grant from the Mirboo North & District Community Foundation awarded in June. The Y&D Historical Society have been displaying items of historical interest and importance in the old railway goods shed in Yinnar…

Revitalising Ridgway Workshop

Mirboo North’s main street was the beneficiary of some love and attention at the end of 2020, thanks to a fantastic whole-town working bee which saw lichen removed, windows washed, new wine barrel planters installed and Christmas decorations put up. This activity was part of the first phase of Revitalising…

BooFIIT Back in 2021

Mirboo North. The Boo. A place with a thriving community; filled with volunteers and entrepreneurial spirit that provide all kinds of opportunities right on our doorstep. BooFIIT is a great example. Set up informally by Stacy Harriage in July 2019 to see if there were enough locals interested in gathering…

2020 Community Grant’s Awards Announced

The Community Foundation announced the recipients of the 9 successful community grants for 2020, which will be distributed to the successful community groups around the local district.