{"id":190515,"date":"2017-09-20T15:49:23","date_gmt":"2017-09-20T05:49:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/?p=190515"},"modified":"2020-08-13T17:27:42","modified_gmt":"2020-08-13T07:27:42","slug":"council-slashes-community-grants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/2017\/09\/20\/council-slashes-community-grants\/","title":{"rendered":"Council Slashes Community Grants"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Wondai Country Festival is the only Regionally Significant Event to win funding from first round of the Council’s new-look Community Grants Program<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

September 20, 2017<\/strong><\/p>\n

The South Burnett Regional Council has slashed funding to community groups by more than half in the first round of its new-look Community Grants Program.<\/p>\n

Communities portfolio chair Cr Danita Potter told Wednesday’s Council meeting the program had received requests for $125,952.88 in funding, but only approved $58,449.55.<\/p>\n

The reason for the difference was that not all applicants received the amounts they asked for, Cr Potter said.<\/p>\n

In all, 50 community organisations submitted applications to the funding round – one-sixth fewer than the number of applications the Council received two years ago, when it handed out $113,500 – and only 39 were approved.<\/p>\n

The biggest winner of the funding round was the Wondai Country Festival, which received $10,000 under the Regionally Significant Event sponsorship program.<\/p>\n

Regionally Significant Events are required to submit a detailed three-year business plan and annual progress reports to Council to secure three-year funding of $10,000 (first year), $7500 (second year) and $5000 (third year).<\/p>\n

The successful first round applicants were:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Public Liability Insurance <\/strong><\/p>\n