July 3, 2017
Seventeen South Burnett community organisations will share in $306,569 in grants from the latest round of the Gambling Community Benefit Fund.
Successful applicants for Round 92 of the fund’s grants program were announced on Friday.
The announcement follows hard on the heels of Round 91 winners, who were announced in mid-May.
In that Round, 19 South Burnett community groups shared $353,000 in grants.
The Gambling Community Benefit Fund is a state-wide government funding program which collects revenue generated by gambling and channels it into not-for-profit organisations.
The Fund distributes an average of $53 million each year.
Groups can apply online for grants of up to $35,000 (inclusive of GST) on a quarterly basis.
In April this year, Queensland Attorney-General Yvette D’Ath announced that the priority for the next four rounds of funding would be to assist areas impacted by Tropical Cyclone Debbie.
The rounds this will apply to are Round 92, which closed on February 28; Round 93, which closed on May 31; and rounds 94 and 95.
The successful Round 92 applicants were:
- Blackbutt Art Gallery – $1478.38
- Blackbutt Singers – $3051.14
- Boondooma Dam Fish Stocking Association – $20,000
- BIEDO – $5240
- Cooyar Agricultural Society – $35,000
- Cooyar Campdraft Association – $20,000
- Durong Bowls Club – $24,400
- Kilkivan Veterans and Men’s Shed Association – $33,767
- Kingaroy State High School – $32,870
- Kumbia Racecourse and Recreation Reserve Association – $35,000
- Lions Camp Duckadang – $20,537
- Murgon Bowls Club – $27,200
- South Burnett Tutoring Association – $1700
- Taabinga State School – $15,000
- Taabinga State School P&C Association – $10,000
- The South Burnett Pistol Club – $15,000
- Wondai Woodworkers – $6326
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