Successful grant applications

Maximum funding amount is $2,000. Successful grant recipients for 2024/2025:

• Saltbush Community Initiatives Inc - Screening of film 'Under Cover' and Q&A Panel Discussion - $2,000
• Bendigo Eaglehawk Badminton Association Inc - Elite Series 4, State Titles - $1,000
• Raywood Primary School - Raywood Primary School Bike Track - $2,000
• Scots Baseball Club Inc - First Aid equipment for safe baseball games - $315
• Marong Neighbourhood House Incorporated - Recompense of items damaged during CoGB project - $320.05
• Bendigo Malayalee Association Inc. - Intercommunity Badminton Tournament - $700.00
• Golden Square Probus Club - Retirees or semi retirees’ social group. Golden Square Probus Club - $598
• Rookie Artists Incorporated - Cut + Paste Festival - $2,000
• Victory Basketball Club - Equipment Boost & Website Wowing! - $1,060
• Bendigo and District Fire Brigades' Championships * Inc. - Demo for Championship running teams - $1,990
• White Hills Bowls Club Inc - Bowls Club - $1,937
• Golden City Pipe Band - Scots on Show - $2,000
• Shared Direction Consulting - Disability Art Award and Exhibition - $2,000
• Axedale Our Town - Our Future - Brass plaques for Axedale Underpass Art Project - $1,050
• Bendigo Senjuns Hockey Club - Junior playing uniforms - $960
• Eaglehawk Festivals Inc. - Eaglehawk Christmas Carols - $1,000
• Inner Wheel Club of Bendigo - Inner Wheel Club of Bendigo- presentation of plants to new citizens - $1,500.00
• Bendigo Senior secondary College - Indigenous Student Designed Hoodie - $1,547
• O’Shea Ryan Academy of Irish Dance - Bendigo Group - Irish Dancing - $2,000
• Central Victorian Irish Association Inc - Saint Patrick's Day concert 2025 - $1,938.50
• Bendigo City Homing Club Inc - Pigeon Racing - $1,913
• Centre State Rodders Inc - AED Defibrillator unit package - $2,000
• Footscape Inc. - Foot Care Kits - $2,000
• Raywood golf club - Raywood golf club - $2,000
• Rotary Club of Eaglehawk - Great Aussie Caravan and Camping Swap Meet - $1,934
• Bendigo Foodshare - Town Hall hire - Book Fair fundraiser - $2,000
• Sunshine Bendigo Inc. - Sunshine Bendigo Ordering System - $2,000
• Mugi Rahayu Gamelan - Harmony in Action: Bridging Community Through Gamelan Music and Dance - $1,648
• North Harcourt Sedgwick Landcare Group Inc - Pledge to Plant 2025 - $2,000
• Bendigo Rugby League Club - Uniforms for our inaugural season - $2,000
• Nepalese In Bendigo - Nepalese New Year Celebrations - $2,000
• Epsom Football Club - Equipment to support increasing capacity for matches and training - $2,000
• Maiden Gully Progress Association Inc - Maiden Gully Autumn Festival - $2,000
• Bendigo Baptist Community Care Inc - Fundraising Events for MADCOW - $1,000
• Bendigo Bonsai Club Inc - Purchase of Defibrillator and enhanced First Aid Kit - $2,000
• Kangaroo Flat Bowls Club - All Abilities Student Lawn Bowls Event - $678.25
• Marong Football Netball Club - Indigenous Round - $1,920
• Bendigo Bridge Club Incorporated - Bendigo Bridge Congress - $2,000
• Bendigo Flying Club - Bendigo Aviation LifeSaver Project - $1,975
• Golden Square Football & Netball Club - Improved disposal of waste and increase of container recycling - $2,000
• Phoenix United Basketball Development Club - Bridging Fund assistance - $2,000
• Central Victorian Bat Alliance - Facilitating better biodiversity, ecosystem and coexistence outcomes for bats, people and environments across Greater Bendigo. - $1,800
• Kangaroo Flat Community Enterprise - The Zone activities – Chair-o-plane - $2,000
• North Bendigo Football/Netball Club Incorporated - Indigenous Football Netball Round - NAIDOC Week - $2,000
• Bendigo Historical Society Inc. - Making Ourselves Useful Regional Seminar - $1,750
• Bendigo Comedy Festival - Bendigo Comedy Festival 2025 - $900
• Bendigo City Football (Soccer) Club - Training for Junior Coaches - $2,000
• Spring Gully Recreation Reserve Committee - Public Defibrillator - $2,000

Maximum funding amount is $2,000. Successful grant recipients for 2023/2024:

• 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

Maximum funding amount is $2,000. Successful grant recipients for 2024/2025:

• Bendigo Basketball Association - Training for Volunteers - Brain-Based Coaching and Support Program for Bendigo Junior Braves - $2,000
• Bendigo Stroke Support Centre - Insurance - $1,508.52
• Redesdale and District Association Incorporated - RADA Management Liability Insurance - $840
• Goldfields Library Corporation - Security welfare checks - $2,000
• Nature Network - Established Sustainability for Nature Network - $830
• Raywood Library - Raywood Library Rental and Utilities - $650
• Grow Australia - Short-term Rent Assistance - $1,000
• Bridge Connection Inc. - Bridge Connection Inc. Liability Insurance - $870
• Woodvale Progress Association Inc  - Public Liability Insurance - $638.61
• Sandhurst Snooker and Billiards Club Inc - Payment of yearly insurance premium. - $1,310
• Saltbush Community Initiatives Inc - Contents and Public Liability Insurance - $2,000
• Strathdale Senior Citizens Club Inc - Services and support for senior citizens in the community - $2,000
• Amegilla College Incorporated - Personal Accident and Associations Liability Insurance - $1,184.15
• Junortoun Community Action Group Inc. - JCAG Community Group Essentials 2025 - $1,275
• Panyang Society for Human Development - African Community Festival/Celebration - $400
• Huntly and Districts' Historical Society Inc. - Payment for essential amenities - $2,000

Maximum funding amount is $2,000. Successful grant recipients for 2023/2024:

• 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

Maximum funding amount is $10,000. Successful grant recipients for 2024/2025:

• Loddon Mallee Housing Services Ltd - Sidney Myer Haven Playground Restoration - $5000
• The Great Stupa of Universal Compassion Ltd - StupaView Cafe Upgrade - $10,000
• Interchange Loddon Mallee Region Ltd - Bridging Gaps, Scoring Goals, Netball for All - $4368
• Cycling Without Age Australia Inc. - The Bendigo Trishaw program for the Aged - $10,000
• Goornong Recreation Reserve Committee of Management Inc. - Goornong Pool Sparkles with Robotic Pool Cleaner - $7185
• Marong Community Action Group Inc. - Marong Family Fun Day - $10,000
• Dragon City Roller Derby Inc. - Safety Padding for Roller Derby facility at Truscott Reserve - $5,000
• Bendigo Neighbourhood Hub Inc. - Strengthening volunteering in neighbourhood houses - $10,000
• Bendigo Sustainability Group Inc. - Bendigo Sustainability Festival Engagement - $9,500
• Axedale Recreation Reserve Committee of Management Inc. - Installation of backflow prevention infrastructure required by Coliban Water - $9769.60
• Panyang Society for Human Development Inc. - Boxing Day African Cultural Event - $3,690
• Empowering Eaglehawk Inc - Eaglehawk Court House Arts & Cultural Hub - $8,000
• Bendigo District RSL Military Museum Inc. - Fortuna's Veteran Legacy: The Stories of the Australian Women’s Army Corps & Australian Survey Corps - A tidy Bendigo: Boys to the Bush Vocational Work Program - $10,000
• McKern Steel Foundation Limited - Fresh Fruit Friday Program for Bendigo Schools & Bendigo Health - $5,000
• Boys to the Bush Ltd - $10,000
• Eaglehawk Bendigo Badminton and Table Tennis Stadium - Construction of a bus drop-off zone for para-athletes and facility users - $10,000
• Bendigo Basketball Association - Purchase of a trailer to transport sports wheelchairs - $10,000
• Junortoun Community Action Group - Develop and prepare a landscape plan for Honeyeater Bushland Reserve - $10,000
• Bendigo Winter Night Shelter - Operation of the 2025 Night Shelter - $10,000
• Bendigo Foodshare Inc - Purchase of a ride on mower to maintain the grounds of new premises - $9,774
• Bendigo Region Women's Shed Inc. - Developing the operation of the shed - $9,000
• Discovery Science and Technology Museum Inc - Provide the Beyond Curious innovation STEM and literacy program - $8,730
• Huntly Men's Shed Inc. - Purchase of occupational healthy safety requirements - $8,341
• Eaglehawk North Primary School - Implementation of a Stephanie Alexander Kitchen Garden - $7,838
• Ex-Fortuna Survey Association Inc. - Digitise and preserve historical film negatives and slides from the Royal Australian Survey Corps and Women’s Australian Army Corps - $7,100
• Lifeline Loddon Mallee Ltd - Support recruitment and training of volunteers - $6,500
• Wellsford Forest Friends and Landcare Group - Fund an ecological study of vegetation in Wellsford Forest - $6,247
• Bendigo Agricultural Show Society - Develop a free of charge Kids Zone for children to explore and learn at the 2025 Bendigo Show - $6,156
• Star Cinema Community Association Pty Ltd - Support the Eaglehawk Film Festival -$5,320
• Ostomates - Bendigo Stoma Support Group - Support participant education and operation of the group - $1,650

Maximum funding amount is $10,000. Successful grant recipients for 2023/2024:

• Bendigo Orienteers Incorporated - Bendigo Bushwalking Guidebook - $10,000
• Bendigo Junior Fishing Club - Bendigo Junior Fishing Club events - $6,390.94
• St John Ambulance Australia (Victoria) Inc - High Performance CPR training in Bendigo - $5,406
• Football Victoria - Walking Football Bendigo - $8,750
• Bendigo Business Council Ltd T/as Be. Bendigo - Growing Bendigo - $10,000
• Bendigo Strikers Netball - Start-up women’s sporting program - $10,000
• DUMAWAL - Our People Our Country - $10,000
• Eaglehawk Community Croquet Club Inc. - Purchase and upgrade of equipment - $3,755
• Goldfields Ukestra Inc. - Purchase of equipment - $1,869
• Junortoun Community Action Group - Honeyeater Bushland Reserve - Rim Track Repair - $5,000
• Kerala Hindu Society Bendigo Inc - Sree Krishna Janmashtami 2024 - $5,400
• Lifeline Loddon Mallee - Hello for Hope - Mental Health Training and Health Promotion initiative - $9,500
• Long Gully Community Centre Inc - Leggo Room Upgrade B - $2,817
• Mandurang South Recreation Reserve CoM - Mandurang South Recreation Reserve (MSRR) - Multi-Use Sports Court Project - $10,000
• North Bendigo Junior Football Club - NAIDOC- Indigenous Round (Junior's and Women's Football - $6,000

Maximum funding amount is $2,000. Successful grant recipients for 2024:

• Sunshine Bendigo Inc - Christmas Hampers - $2,000
• Eaglehawk Secondary College - Creating Hampers in the Classroom for Karen families - $2,000
• Church of the Holy Spirit Raywood Spirit Raywood Vic Inc - 3570 Community Care Christmas Hampers - $2,000
• Bendigo Baptist Church - Cafe 3:16 - $2,000
• Long Gully Neighbourhood Centre - Gully Christmas Lunch - $2,000
• Voice of Reason International Pty Ltd - Christmas Community Event - $1,700
• Uniting (Vic & Tas) Ltd - Christmas ER program - $2,000
• The Trustee for The Salvation Army (Victoria) Property Trust - Community Christmas Lunch - $2,000
• Sedgwick Public Hall, Recreation and Conservation Reserve - Sedgwick Community Christmas Event - $1,200
• Rotary Club of Kangaroo Flat - Rotary Club of Kangaroo Flat Community Xmas Dinner - $2,000
• Bendigo Baptist Community Care Inc - 2024 Christmas Meal and Hampers for People Experiencing Homelessness - $1,000
• Eaglehawk Uniting Church Food & Care Program - Eaglehawk Uniting Church "Food & Care" Program Christmas Food hampers - $1,000
• Kangaroo Flat Community House Inc - KFCH Community Christmas Party - $1,500
• Eaglehawk Community House Incorporated - ECH 2024 Community Christmas Party - $2,000
• Heathcote Food Share Inc – Christmas Party - $750
• Anglican Parish Of Eaglehawk - Community Christmas Lunch - $2,000
• Loddon Campaspe Multicultural Services - Flavours of Bendigo: Feast, Celebration, and Solidarity - $970
• Huntly Community Hub - Huntly Community Hub Christmas Hampers “Hampers with Hope” - $2,000
• Meals at the Bridge Lifeline Inc - Festive Meal celebration - $1,500
• Epsom Community Church - Christmas Food Relief Hampers - $1,500

Maximum funding amount is $1,000. Successful grant recipients for 2023:

• A Reasonable Christianity - Church - $1,000
• Bendigo Baptist Community Care Inc (Nexus Bendigo Youth Theatre) - MADCOW Christmas Brunch for the Homeless - $1,000
• Didi Bahini Samaj Victoria - Christmas Brunch - $1,000
• Eaglehawk Community House Inc - Community Christmas Meal and Garden Party - $1,000
• Eaglehawk Uniting Church Food & Care - Christmas Luncheon - $900
• Hispanos Unidos de Victoria - Dia de las velitas - $1,000
• Kangaroo Flat Community House - KFCH Community Christmas - $1,000
• Long Gully Neighbourhood Centre - Gully Christmas Party - $1,000
• Rotary Club of Kangaroo Flat - Community Meals Christmas Dinner - $1,000
• St Peter's Anglican Eaglehawk - Community Christmas Lunch - $1,000
• The Salvation Army Bendigo - Community Christmas Lunch - $1,000

All for $75,000 over three years. Successful grant recipients for 2023 to 2026:

• 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