Group and Project Title
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Project Description
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Expected project outcomes
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WAMA
Community Renewal
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The project will provide at least 3 community-based events on the WAMA site.
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The events will enable all residents to increase socially connectedness across all age groups.
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Great Western Futures Committee
Volunteer and New Residents Community Dinner
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The Great Western Futures committee will hold a community dinner to bring all the community groups, members of the community and new residents together to celebrate all things Great Western.
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A more socially connected community with increased capacity in community groups to sustain them into the future.
If successful, the dinner becomes an annual event.
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Stawell Golf Club
Golfers get into the swing of Technology
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A lightweight laptop and a Point of Sales System will be purchased to help with purchasing of food and beverages for events, sales of merchandise, memberships and tournament payments.
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Equipment will support the strategic direction of the club to be more efficient and effective.
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Swanwater West Cemetery Trust
Cemetery Enhancement Project
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A pergola with a glass cabinet display will be built to house the history of the cemetery, a cemetery map, and a burial list that directs visitors to the desired plot.
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Improve visitor experience to cemetery.
Promote interest in our local history and genecology.
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Stawell Community Garden
More garden beds, more members
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Four new raised wicking garden beds will be built in the remaining space at the garden.
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Improved facilities.
Increase membership of the garden, for all including PALM scheme workers.
Increase social connectivity.
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Paradise Hall
Restumping Paradise
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Purchase and replace 55 stumps around the outer wall of the hall with adjustable steel units to re-level the building where time has pressed the original timber stumps into the ground.
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Secure a long and viable structural future for the hall.
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St Arnaud Mechanic's Institute
Verandah Repair Stage 1
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Repair of the verandah posts and foundations to enhance and make safe, the external aspect of the building, so the area can be utilised again.
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Reinstate the posts and footing to a safe and original look.
To attract more community groups and individuals to use our facilities, whilst the current users will have reconnected and recommenced their classes through utilising the repaired space.
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Halls Gap Residents and Ratepayers
Community Fitness Program
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Rejuvenating the existing exercise equipment and grounds and conducting a community fitness program.
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High level of participation in the community fitness program.
Commitment from participants to continue with community-based exercise after the program ends.
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St Arnaud Band Hall
Refurbishment - plumbing upgrade for kitchen
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To upgrade the plumbing to the kitchen in the Band Hall which will enable fresh town water to the sink.
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To have a functional kitchen with fresh clean water.
To have the stove installed.
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Concongella Hall
Rejuvenation Project 1
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This project will upgrade the kitchen tank and stand at the Concongella Hall and replace the decommissioned leaking tin tank with a new plastic tank.
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Water security for community members utilising the hall.
Safe environment for community users of the hall.
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St Arnaud Rifle Club
Clubroom Restoration
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Repair the horizontal support beams that are degrading the building's structural integrity and impacting the safety of our club members and security of the equipment stored in the clubroom.
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To have a safe clubroom that club members can use for club events and competitions.
To cater for those events with a kitchen area that can be kept clean of rodent mess.
To have safer equipment storage for the club.
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Snappy Gappians
Halls Gap Community Connections Program
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Over the course of 2024 the Snappy Gappians will facilitate a program of four community events within Halls Gap.
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To increase social connection and resilience across the Halls Gap community.
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