{"id":42497,"date":"2013-08-27T01:44:53","date_gmt":"2013-08-26T15:44:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/?p=42497"},"modified":"2023-10-18T19:21:30","modified_gmt":"2023-10-18T09:21:30","slug":"heritage-donates-500000-to-community","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/2013\/08\/27\/heritage-donates-500000-to-community\/","title":{"rendered":"Heritage Gives $500,000 To Community"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Max Forsyth and Richard Don, from the Maidenwell Rural Fire Brigade, with Heritage Community Bank Nanango branch manager Robert Shaw, centre<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Fred Laubli and Barry Sheppard from the Nanango and District Aeromodellers\u00a0<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

August 27, 2013<\/strong><\/p>\n

It’s not every day that more than half a million dollars is handed out to community groups, but that’s exactly what happened on Saturday when the Heritage Community Branch Nanango distributed its 2013 Community Grants.<\/p>\n

Representatives from 27 not-for-profit groups gathered at Ringsfield House to be presented with cheques ranging from $300 to $130,000 to further their activities.<\/p>\n

Heritage Community Branch secretary Wendy Zerbst told the assembled crowd the Nanango branch had given away a total of $2.5 million since it opened.<\/p>\n

She said it was very proud to be giving away half a million dollars this year to the local community.<\/p>\n

“I don’t think that happens anywhere else in Queensland, and possibly in Australia,” she said.<\/p>\n

Some of the groups to benefit from grants this year included the Nanango All Breeds Kennel Club which will be using its $6205 grant to develop an “earth dog-testing area”.<\/p>\n

“The only one of these in Queensland was wiped out in the floods a few years ago so Nanango will have the only one in the State,” Ms Zerbst said.<\/p>\n

“The club anticipates it will bring people into Nanango.”<\/p>\n

Nanango and District Aeromodellers will be using their $8000 grant to build a “low-cost” clubhouse from two shipping containers.<\/p>\n

SB Care, which is based in Kingaroy, was given $17,000 to purchase a new car to better service clients in the Nanango area.<\/p>\n

The Nanango Stags rugby league football club was given almost $18,000 to build a small, covered grandstand at Fred Kassulke Oval.<\/p>\n

The Nanango Historical Society – who hosted the grants ceremony – was given almost $47,000 to completely paint Ringsfield House inside and out, and repair and repaint the roof.<\/p>\n

The Nanango Men’s Shed project, which is being developed on land belonging to the Baptist Church on Mt Stanley Road, was given $56,500 which will allow construction of the shed to start.<\/p>\n

However, the big winner on the day was “Heritage Lodge”, \u00a0a joint project between South Burnett CTC and the Heritage Community Branch Nanango.<\/p>\n

Heritage Lodge is a specialised community housing project being developed jointly by CTC and Heritage.<\/p>\n

The project received $100,000 in last year’s Heritage Community Grants and received another $130,000 this year.<\/p>\n