July 15th, 2024Looking good for the festival

The Hepburn Shire Council has secured extra funding of $10,000 through the Victoria State Government’s 2024 Seniors Festival Active Living Fund to deliver Seniors Festival events this October.

The Victorian Seniors Festival runs from the 1st to 31st of October every year with events right across Victoria.

All of the state’s 79 local councils as well as community organisations, groups and club hold events.

The Hepburn Shire Council announced that it had been successful in securing the additional $10,000 via its social media last week. The added dollars that it has secured brings the council’s total funding for events this year to $13,000.

With the extra funding, the council says it is planning to host more events and encourage participation of one (or more) of the following priority groups:

Seniors with a disability

Veterans

Vulnerable men

Seniors from multicultural and/or multi faith backgrounds

First Nations Elders

LGBTIQA+ Seniors

The council’s team will be working closely with Central Highlands Rural Health, the Creswick Men’s Friendship Shed and John Curtin Aged Care to stage events locally as part of the festival.

Well known Daylesford identity Max Primmer features on the front cover of this year’s Victorian Seniors Festival booklet.