Local projects receive funding through Pick My Project

Published on 03 October 2018

The Romsey Ecotherapy Park Climbing Forest and the Woodend Kindergarten Playground upgrade projects are two of 237 project ideas from across Victoria chosen to share in $30 million in community grants through the Victorian Government’s Pick My Project initiative.

The Romsey Ecotherapy Park Climbing Forest project will complement the recently completed active nature space in the park. As the largest climbing forest of its kind in the shire, it will engage older children, young people and adults, encouraging people to be active. At up to three metres high, the challenging climbing forest will excite and thrill park visitors with its poles, ropes, lookouts, rope bridge, vertical climbing net and hammock.

The Victorian Government will provide $200,000 and work with the Romsey Ecotherapy Park Inc. Committee and Macedon Ranges Shire Council to help make their idea a reality.

The Woodend Kindergarten Playground upgrade project will create an outdoor environment that supports and promotes inclusion, participation and a sense of belonging for children with all abilities. The playground will include natural elements that allow children to connect to their world and learn about the environment and the ecosystem. Interactive features of the plan include a dry creek bed, frog bog, bridges, outdoor classroom, sandpit and sand kitchen, new play structures and plantings.

The Victorian government have committed $198,500 towards this project.

Under the Pick My Project initiative, Victorians were invited to vote for their three favourite project ideas in their local community. Over 95,000 Victorians cast votes for their favourite project ideas in their local community. The successful projects were two of 32 local project proposals submitted by communities in the Macedon Ranges. 

Successful projects can be viewed on the Pick My Project website