October 30, 2015
South Burnett community organisations were presented with an extra $36,455 in funding this week.
$15,000 came from the latest round of the Mayor’s Community Benefit Fund, and the balance came from the Council’s Community Assistance Grants.
Representatives of successful applicants for Round 5 of the Mayor’s Community Benefit Fund were invited to a Community Assistance Presentation Morning Tea at the Kingaroy Town Hall Forecourt on Tuesday.
They were joined by representatives from several other groups who had been unable to attend the Council’s annual Community Assistance Grants presentation night on Wednesday, September 16.
Mayor Wayne Kratzmann presented 11 local organisations with cheques towards their projects, all of which support the community in different ways.
He noted that since he’d set up the Mayor’s Community Benefit Fund soon after gaining office, the Fund had collected and given away more than $85,000 to South Burnett community groups.
It was now distributing between $45,000 and $50,000 a year – a 10 per cent “top-up” over and above the $465,000 in community assistance the Council already provides to local not-for-profit groups and community associations.
After the presentations, the Mayor announced that a special extra round of the Mayor’s Community Benefit Fund is now open for organisations who actively provide support for the community in need at Christmas.
The extra round has been made possible by the success of this year’s Mayor’s Charity Ball.
Applications for the special Christmas round close on October 30
More details and application forms can be obtained from the Council’s website, or by contacting any of the Council’s Customer Service Centres.
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