A community groups in St Arnaud will be part of 56 other organisations across rural and regional Australia who are sharing in more than $250,000 in grants.
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St Arnaud is one of 11 sites in Victoria that will share in $44,000 of funding thanks to Nutrien Ag Solutions and the Foundation for Rural Regional Renewal (FRRR).
The St Arnaud Neighbourhood House Inc is set to be the lucky recipient of $1,703 thanks to the first round of the Community Grants Program.
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The funds will be allocated towards the St Arnaud House and Shed Garden, with this program aiming to build community resilience through the construction of a vegetable garden at the St Arnaud Neighbourhood Centre.
FRRR chief executive Natalie Egleton said this program was one of the most popular FRRR have run in recent years.
"Most of the requests were for infrastructure and equipment, such as mowers and generators, or to upgrade community spaces, and to improve access to services and activities," she said.
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"These things can often be hard to fund, especially in really small communities.
FRRR said most of the applications came from outer-regional, remote or very remote areas (75 per cent), again reflecting the challenges in securing funding in those areas.
Around a third of the communities that applied have fewer than 500 people. The average funding requested was just under $4,700 and the smallest request was for just under a thousand.
For community groups looking for similar flexible funding are encouraged to visit www.frrr.org.au/funding to explore what other grant programs has available.
If you would like to support grants like this through FRRR, make a tax-deductible donation at https://frrr.org.au/giving/
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