Community Fund recipients for Round IV
We are proud to announce the successful recipients of Round IV of the Hepburn Wind Community Fund.
The Community Fund committee received eleven applications totalling almost $40,000 and selected eight projects to share in a total of $17,000.
The successful local projects are:
- Daylesford Community Theatre Inc Cinema Speakers $5000
- Clayspace Community Ceramics Studio Equipment $2600
- Ballan District Health and Care Ballan Child Care Sustainability and Educational Program $1200
- Wombat Forestcare Arboreal Mammal Research Project in the Wombat Forest $1423
- Hepburn Community Radio Hepburn Community Radio-internet Broadcasting $1000
- Daylesford Secondary College Project Garlic $2000
- Melbourne Chamber Orchestra Daylesford Chamber Music Weekend $2750
- Trentham Food Hub Purchase of a Mobile Coolroom $2000
In addition, our ‘rolling’ fund for renewable energy projects remains open. The $15,000 fund welcomes inquiries from community members keen to develop renewable energy projects in our local area that provide opportunities for wide community participation.
We are particularly grateful to Red Energy — our energy retail partner — and our supporters who have signed up to our jointly-marketed Community Saver product. Our community fund is significantly underwritten by their support. You can help us grow the community fund, and increase our local impact, by signing up at redenergy.com.au/hepburnwind
We would also like to expresses our gratitude to all applicants as well as to the members of our Community Fund committee who have again given so generously of their time to ensure a robust and fair process.
