April 27th, 2022Just briefly

Organisations in Hepburn Shire have shared $23,000 under the latest round of the council’s Community Grants Program.
Mayor Cr Tim Drylie said small amounts of grant money could make a big difference in the community. “The program provides community groups with much needed funds to deliver projects that might not have been possible without this support”.

Projects included: a defibrillator/Daylesford Table Tennis Association – $2500, The Day of the Wombat/Hepburn Wildlife Shelter – $2500, Clunes: Anthology of Works/Clunes Writers’ Group – $1671, Trentham Timeline Project/Trentham and District Historical Society – $2500, Wholefoods 10th Anniversary Cookbook/Hepburn Wholefoods Collective – $1795, Australian Orienteering Carnival/Locals Subsidised Entry/Orienteering Victoria – $2500, Seed Collection for the Future/Seeding Victoria/Creswick) – $2491, Classics for Kids/U3A Hepburn Shire – $1800, Trentham Lions Wood for the Needy/Trentham Lions Club – $2000, Additional Relief for Vulnerable Persons/St John’s Creswick Emergency Relief – $2000 and Open House Shared/Clunes Neighbourhood House – $2000.
The final round of Community Grants 2021/2022 closes on April 28.

Running the Daylesford Cinema out of the former court house in Camp Street, now the Daylesford Neighbourhood Centre, would not be feasible, a study has found.
The study looked into the technical feasibility of modifying the building to establish and operate a cinema, heritage conditions that applied to the court house, and the implications for the ongoing operation of the DNC.
Daylesford Community Theatre president Gina Lyons said the committees of both organisations had worked collaboratively to seek a home for the Daylesford Cinema. “While the court house option did not end up being sensible to pursue, the process undertaken by the steering committee proved to be pivotal and meant that the use of limited financial resources to undertake a more detailed feasibility was unnecessary. DCT will keep exploring viable options to enable the community to benefit from a community theatre.”