May 19, 2016
Only three local groups appear to have received funding under the latest round of grants from the Gambling Community Benefit Fund.
The Kingaroy Breastfeeding Association has received $6552 to purchase equipment.
Blackbutt Tennis Club has received $23,496 to resurface the Blackbutt Tennis Courts
As well, the Queensland Rural, Regional and Remote Women’s Network – formed in the South and Central Burnett – received $20,000 to develop a database platform.
The three groups were among 600 community groups across Queensland which received a total of $13 million in funding from the latest allocations.
Member for Nanango Deb Frecklington is concerned that only three local groups were funded.
She said that over the past several rounds, the number of Nanango Electorate groups receiving grants has been steadily decreasing.
“I am worried that many of our hard-working groups are missing out and I question the Labor Government why this is happening?” she said.
“I just hope that in the next round more groups in my Nanango Electorate are successful with their grant submissions,” she said.
She is keen to hear from any group who submitted a Gambling Community Benefit Fund grant in November 2015 and was unsuccessful.
Applications for the next round of funding, Round 89, close at midnight on May 31.
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