Community Grants Program grant recipients for 2023-2024.
Small Grants
Maximum funding amount is $2,000
- Bendigo Harness Racing - Bendigo Harness Racing Club Inc - $2,000
- Bendigo Historical Society - Red Ribbon Agitation Re-enactment - $1,997
- Asian Women’s Collective - Asian Women’s Collective - $2,000
- Maiden Gully Progress Association - Maiden Gully Community Hall Secure Windows - $1,075
- Golden Square Croquet and Bowling Club - Additional bowls to establish a junior bowling program - $2,000
- Bendigo Pickleball Club - Pickleball Sport - $2,000
- Bendigo Branch Victorian Apiarists Association - IT Upgrade - $1,966
- Bendigo Bridge Club - Bendigo Bridge Congress - $2,000
- Victorian Railways Institute - AED - Defibrillator maintenance and installation - $811
- Elmore Progress Association - Elmore Community Christmas Party - $2,000
- Elmore Cemetery Trust - Elmore Cemetery Trust - $2,000
- Bendigo Hawks Aquatic - Launching of specialist coaching to support our swimmers - $1,995
- Upper Spring Creek Landcare Group - Riley Street Reserve community volunteer woody weed removal - $2,000
- Sandhurst Hockey Club - Sandhurst Hockey Club Uniform Upgrade - $2,000
- Bendigo Baptist Community Care Inc (Nexus Bendigo Youth Theatre) - Nexus BYT Presents Cinderella at The Capital Theatre, Bendigo - $2,000
- Bendigo Toastmasters Club - Club Zoom Swivel Camera - $2,000
- Friends of Bendigo Botanic Gardens - Installation of a Defibrillator at the Samuel Gadd Centre in the Bendigo Botanic Gardens - $2,000
- 7th Victoria Girls’ Brigade Bendigo - Equipment Upgrade - $2,000
- Bendigo Indoor Gamers - The B.I.G Weekend 2024 - $2,000
- Bendigo Science and Technology Centre (Discovery) - A New View: Colour Blind Friendly Exhibit - $1,991
- Longlea Recreation Reserve - Longlea Reserve Maintenance - $1,400
- Kiwanis Club of Bendigo - Kangaroo Flat Family Fun Day - $2,000
- Comedy Victoria - Women of Wit 2024 - $839
- The Great Stupa Library - Exhibition & Launch of the Govinda Collection - $1,650
- Bendigo Comedy Festival - Bendigo Comedy Festival Auslan access for the deaf community - $759
- Bendigo Historical Society - Installation of a Defibrillator - $2,000
- Bendigo Military Museum - Acquisition of Contactless Scanner - $1,200
- The Trustee for The Salvation Army (Vic) Social Work - Community Garden - $2,000
- Karen Organisation of Bendigo - Karen Wrist Tying Ceremony Bendigo - $2,000
- Central Victorian Restoration Group - Farmall and Friends Display - $2,000
- Goornong Memorial Hall Committee - New interior Holland blinds for Goornong Hall - $1,500
- Redesdale and District Association - Redesdale Community Hall new blinds and curtains - $2,000
- Central Highlands Pleasure Harness Club - 2024 Victorian Show Driving Championships - $412
- Mandurang Valley Events - Mandurang Valley Festival - $2,000
- Zonta Club of Bendigo - Toiletry Bag Project - $2,000
- Kangaroo Flat Swimming Club - Community Swim Club-Rebuild (provide coach development training and training equipment) - $1,633
- Bendigo Harriers Athletics Club - Annual 5K Frenzy 2024 - $2,000
- Centre for Non-Violence - Strong Voices Choir - $2,000
- Bendigo Touch Football Association - Touch Football - $2,000
- Bendigo and District Quilters BADQ - A Parade of Quilts Easter Exhibition 2024 - $2,000
- Indian Association of Bendigo - 2023 Diwali Utsav - celebrating Bendigo’s cultural diversity - $2,000
- Committee of Management Eaglehawk Badminton and Table Tennis Stadium - $2,000
- Bendigo Tennis Club - Big Shots Tennis Program - $2,000
- Prospectors and Miners Association of Victoria - Defibrillator and First Aid Kit - $2,000
- North Harcourt and Sedgwick Landcare - Pledge to Plant 2024 - $2,000
- Central Victorian Irish Association - Saint Patrick’s Day concert 2024 - $1,209
- Dragon City Roller Derby - Sound system for events - $1,800
- Footscape - Foot Care Kits - $2,000
- National 3 Wheelers Association - Purchase of a portable defibrillator machine - $2,000
- South Bendigo Bowls Club - Karen Sports Inclusion Project - $1,977.50
- North Central Victorian Sports Shear Association - Northern Shears Shearing & Wool Handling Competition - $2,000
Community Group Essentials Grants
Maximum funding amount is $2,000
- Bendigo Diocesan Trusts Corporation - Safe Community Spaces in the Heart of Bendigo - $2,000
- Advance Heathcote - Advance Heathcote Inc Governance & Resourcing the 2021-2025 Heathcote Community Plan - $2,000
- Bridge Connection - Bridge Connection Inc. Liability Insurance - $835
- Junortoun Community Action Group - Community Group Essentials 2024 - $1,978
- Hispanos Unidos de Victoria - HUDV Insurance - $2,000
- Bendigo Stroke Support Centre - Bendigo Stroke Support Centre - $1,411
- Bendigo Gliding Club - Not for profit recreational gliding club - $1,848
- Kelly’s Rabbit Warren Rescue - Pet Rabbit Rescue - $2,000
- Bendigo Touch Football Association - Bendigo Touch Football - $2,000
- Bendigo Gliding Club - Insurance for Tow Plane - $1,800
Medium Grants
Maximum funding amount is $10,000
- Golden Square Croquet and Bowling Club - Development of Strategic Plan for the general improvement of club operations - $3,300
- Debbie Edwards - Community Pets Support Program - $10,000
- Bendigo Baptist Church - Eaglehawk Baptist Church kitchen upgrade - $8,498.40
- California Gully Primary School - One Box fruit and Vegetable Boxes - $5,000
- Sunshine Bendigo - Sunshine Bendigo Inc - $10,000
- Bendigo Dart League - Darts - $5,803
- Toolleen Recreation Reserve - First Aid and CPR Training - $4,015
- Eaglehawk Community House - Updating Vital Appliances at Eaglehawk Community House - $7,665
- Bendigo Military Museum - Faces of Peace’ Exhibition Videos with local Peacekeepers - $9,955
- Long Gully Neighbourhood Centre - LGNC 40th anniversary celebrations - $5,076
- Northern Bendigo Landcare Group - Habitat and Biodiversity at Gold Leaf Reserve - $7,300
- Bendigo Blue Light - ONE TO ONE Youth Fitness and Mentoring Program - $6,675
- Quarry Hill Primary School - Fruit and vegetable Boxes food support for our school community - $5,000
- Epilepsy Action Australia - Ted-E-Bear Connection, supporting the health and wellbeing of children living with epilepsy in Greater Bendigo - $5,501.83
- Bendigo Sustainability Group - Bendigo Sustainability Festival 2024 - $9,500
- Wil Jackel - Supporting children and young people to paddle - $8,340
- Elmore Recreation Reserve - Replace Existing Seating - $10,000
- Jumpleads NFP via its community division Make a Change Australia - Activating Golden Square - $10,000
- Centre for Non-Violence - Strong Voices Choir - $10,000
- Mandurang South Recreation Reserve Committee of Management - Multi-Use Sports Court Project - $10,000
- Goldfields Ukestra - Purchase of equipment - $1,869
- North Bendigo Junior Football Club - NAIDOC- Indigenous Round (Junior’s and Women’s Football) - $6,000
- Bendigo Strikers Netball - Start-up women’s sporting program - $10,000
- Eaglehawk Community Croquet Club - Purchase and upgrade of equipment - $3,755
- Bendigo Business Council Ltd Trading As Be.Bendigo - GROWing Bendigo - $10,000
- Long Gully Community Centre - Leggo Room Upgrade B - $2,817
- Kerala Hindu Society Bendigo - Sree Krishna Janmashtami 2024 - $5,400
- Bendigo Malayalee Association - Bendigo Malayalee Association’s (BMA) Onam Celebration 2024 - $3,000
- Lifeline Loddon Mallee - Hello for Hope - Mental Health Training and Health Promotion initiative - $9,500
- DUMAWAL - Our People Our Country - $1,000
- Junortoun Community Action Group - Honeyeater Bushland Reserve - Rim Track Repair - $5,000
Partnering for Impact Grants
All for $75,000 over three years
- SisterWorks - Catalysing Change: Partnering for Impact in Bendigo’s Migrant and Refugee Women’s Employment
- Bendigo Volunteer Resource Centre - Boosting and Empowering the Greater Bendigo Community Sector
- Loddon Campaspe Sports Assembly Trading As Sports Focus - Supporting LGBTQIA+ Access and Inclusion in Community Sport
- Goldfields Local Learning and Employment Network - Passions & Pathways
- Bendigo Foodshare - Growing Our Impact
- National Chinese Museum of Australia Trading As Golden Dragon Museum - Temporary Exhibitions and Associated Activities Program 2024–2026
- Arena Theatre Company - Arena Children’s Theatre Festival
- Indian Association of Bendigo - Promoting diversity and celebrating Indian culture and traditions across the City of Greater Bendigo