Sharing the profits

Gayle Plunkett, Bill Muldoon Rotary Club of Deloraine Darren Rumble

JULY 2017

NINE MEANDER Valley community groups are recipients of the Meander Valley Community Grants Programme for schemes benefitting their region’s entire community.

Administered by Community Enterprise Foundation™, the philanthropic arm of Bendigo and Adelaide Bank, the seventh Deloraine & Districts Community Grants Programme receives a large number of applications each year.

Of the more than $45,000 recently granted by Deloraine & Districts Community Bank® Branch, Apex Club of Deloraine’s Grandstands for Community project received $8978, Western Tiers Community Club got $8000 to refurbish club facilities and Aged Care Deloraine Inc’s Meander Valley Festival of Creative Aging was granted $6,600.

$5,000 grants were each given to Westbury Agricultural Society Inc for arena seating, Chudleigh Hall Committee for heating its hall and Westbury Recreation Ground Management Committee’s Drinking Fountain Project.

$3,000 was granted to Chudleigh Agricultural & Horticulture Society’s Keeping The Kiosk plan.  $2558 went to Rotary Club of Deloraine’s Deloraine Hospital Universal Bed project and $1518 to Deloraine House Inc’s Exercise Programme for Seniors.

Since opening in 2005, Deloraine & Districts Community Bank® Branch has returned more than $1,050,000 to enhance, promote and develop the Meander Valley community; supporting community services and partnerships of which many would otherwise be financially unviable.

Photo | Mike Moores