Community resilience grants program returns

Community resilience grants program returns

Published on 21 December 2020

The popular Gannawarra Community Resilience Grants Program will open for applications on Monday, 21 December 2020, with funding available to help support community resilience projects.

Managed by the Gannawarra Community Resilience Committee, Gannawarra Shire Council-based community groups and organisations located within the municipality are eligible to apply for up to $3,000 for projects and initiatives.

“Since its inception in 2019, the Gannawarra Community Resilience Grants Program has enabled community groups and organisations to implement initiatives and hold events that bring residents together,” Mayor Charlie Gillingham said.

“As we start to reconnect following the COVID-19 pandemic, it is now more important than ever that we continue to unite and support each other, with the Gannawarra Community Resilience Grants Program to assist in this process.”

The grants will support community-led activities that align with the following priorities from the Gannawarra COVID-19 Community Relief and Recovery Plan:

Projects that maintain and build on social links within communities and promote social inclusion and equity; Projects that promote healthy communities and improved mental health and wellbeing; Community gardens and other projects that improve food security; Projects that support children, young people and their families; Art projects particularly those that build new skills across the community; Projects that support safer communities, including responding to future emergency situations and prevention of family violence; Projects that restore and build local economies; Workshops and training that build the capacity of community to develop localised solutions to climate change; Small landscaping projects that improve the local environment; Projects that promote the Five Ways to Wellbeing – Connect, Be Active, Take Notice, Keep Learning and Give; and Other projects that create sustainable long-term outcomes to build resilience of the Gannawarra community to withstand future change.

“Regardless of how small projects are, I encourage community groups and organisations to look at the program guidelines, which are available at www.gsc.vic.gov.au/grants and determine whether projects or activities planned would benefit from this funding,” Mayor Gillingham said.

Applications, which close on Tuesday, 16 February 2021, can be submitted online at www.gsc.vic.gov.au/grants

For more details, please visit www.gsc.vic.gov.au/grants, phone (03) 5450 9333 or email [email protected]

ABOVE: The organisers of the Murrabit Country Market benefited from the previous round of the Gannawarra Community Resilience Grants Program.