2015 COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT
Amount
Funded
Project Title
Project Description
Organisation Name
Ridge Top Brigades
Family Fun &
Information Day
Hold an event united by the Olinda, SassafrasFerny Creek and Kalorama-Mt Dandenong
volunteer fire brigades, to increase the
communities' knowledge around how to better
prepare themselves in case of an emergency.
Olinda Rural Fire
Brigade
$3,500
Essential Survival Skills
at Lysterfield Lake
Reduce the number of aquatic related
incidents by engaging young people in an
aquatic education program that enables safe
recreation in inland and coastal aquatic
environments.
Whole school approach to promote and
increase healthy eating and physical activity
levels culminating in the development of a
Healthy Living Calendar.
Purchase and place wildlife cameras and nest
boxes in areas where MEEPPA have
previously worked to assess what species now
live in Mt Evelyn
Life Saving Victoria
$2,000
Lilydale Primary
School
$3,000
Mt Evelyn
Environment
Protection and
Progress Association
Inc
Yarra Ranges
Women on Farms
Gathering
$2,500
Olinda Community
House Inc
$4,600
Facilitate a 1 day event, coinciding with
NAIDOC Week to develop links between the
community, environment and indigenous
culture.
Establish a "Lentil As Anything" style cafe in
the hills, where you pay what you can afford,
or what you feel the meal is worth.
Yarra Ranges
Landcare Network
$3,500
Hills Community Cafe
$4,500
Upwey Website
Design and maintain an Upwey specific
website that encompasses and involves all
community groups, clubs and associations
within the 3158 postcode.
Project Upwey Inc
$3,400
Rocky Road Choir 2015
The Rocky Road Choir is a non-auditioned
Community Choir based in Healesville and
open to anyone who experiences any form of
social disadvantage.
Rocky Road Choir
$6,000
Empowering Volunteers
for Life
Equip people from targeted groups of the long
term unemployed, people with disabilities or
from CALD backgrounds to experience
success with volunteering.
Eastern Volunteers
$3,000
Community care for the
Yarra
Deliver a program of educational and
engagement events for schools, community
environment groups and other community
members to facilitate and inspire better care of
the Yarra River.
Engage the community in a visually stunning
flag making process, aiming to develop
sustainable community connections and foster
a sense of community pride.
Yarra Riverkeeper
Association Inc
$5,000
Coldstream Voice
$5,000
Healthy Living Program
MEEPPA Cameras &
Nest boxes
2015 Yarra Ranges
Women on Farms
Gathering
Community
Consultation,
Strengthening and
Inclusion Project
Landcare "Connecting
to Country" Project
Hills Community Cafe
Celebrating a Colourful
Coldstream
Hold the Yarra Ranges Women on Farms
Gathering, which is the annual celebration of
the contribution and experiences of rural
women to their communities and their
businesses.
Provides opportunities to develop an inclusive
Olinda Community House Program aimed
especially at those at risk of social exclusion.
$6,000
Valley Children's
Theatre Group
Offer an after school theatre group for the local
community of Woori Yallock and surrounding
areas at Woori Yallock Primary School
targeting 8 - 12 year olds.
Woori Yallock
Primary School
$4,000
Sanctuary Equus Not
For Profit Set Up
Establish a sustainable Not for Profit
organisation to provide programs for trauma
survivors using Therapy horses for eligible
residents in the Yarra Valley.
Sanctuary Equus
$4,000
Staying Steady
Deliver an early intervention program to
maintain and increase mobility in older
people, run by U3A volunteers with
physiotherapist supervision.
Produce five local community news stories
featuring local community projects and
individuals, as well as setting up a video based
community news web site.
U3A Yarra Ranges
$5,000
P4T Inc (Partnering
For Transformation)
$4,000
CHAMPS Family Fun
Day 2015
Hold the CHAMPS Family Fun Day, which is
designed to provide additional support to
vulnerable children as they deal with the
challenges of having a mentally ill parent.
Eastern Health
$1,000
Breast Beaters
Deliver an innovative outreach program for
women with breast cancer in Yarra Ranges,
combining singing and lymphoedema
exercises in lively, local group sessions.
Dandenong Ranges
Music Council
Incorporated
$2,000
Lunch anyone?
Deliver a program for people with disabilities
and older people to learn to cook weekly and
develop a monthly community lunch. The
program aims to address social isolation.
Belgrave South
Community House
$4,000
Discover Mount Evelyn
Develop an interactive pocket map and QR
code signage, highlighting nature trails and
walking tracks, including difficulty ratings and
accessibility information.
Mount Evelyn
Chamber of
Commerce Inc.
(MECCI)
$6,000
Men's Shed Outreach
Project
Conduct mobile outreach workshops with aged
care men and school children with parents to
build small individual and group wooden
projects.
Badger Creek and
District Men's Shed
Inc.
$3,000
yarraranges.tv
TOTAL COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT
$ 89,000
2015 ARTS AND HERITAGE DEVELOPMENT
Amount
Funded
Project Title
Project Description
Organisation Name
Scenes on the Yarra "Tall Trees and
Tributaries"
Facilitate a series of artistic and environmental
workshops in the Yarra Ranges culminating in
a celebratory event at Birrarung Marr,
promoting awareness of the Yarra Catchment.
Jeminah Reidy
Dances with Lyrebirds
Hold an exhibition and performance
celebrating qualities of the lyrebird, through
dance, photography and sound, with
accompanying walks and presentations by
environmental and cultural experts.
Run community art making workshops and
create an installation of recycled toys and
plastic items, resulting in a man-made forest at
the Regional Museum.
Gretel Taylor
$9,000
Rachael Hallinan
$8,300
The Healesville String
Band
Develop a community band with predominantly
stringed instruments aiming to perform at
community events and represent the
community at regional events.
Yarra Valley
Musicians Collective
$4,500
Back to Yarra Junction
Hold a Back-to-Yarra-Junction event, which
will form part of the research for the
preparation of a History of Yarra Junction.
Upper Yarra Valley
Historical Society
$2,500
hillsceneLIVE
hillsceneLIVE is an 11 month cultural
development project for emerging and
experimental artists, comprising skills
development workshops, networking sessions,
professional work experience and performance
opportunities
Provide an opportunity for young people who
have an interest in: listening to; playing;
writing; recording; and performing, as well as
sharing ideas and learning about music.
Gareth Hart
Sound Factor Studio
$3,000
'La terra d'elezione’ Italians in the Yarra
Valley before 1945
Design and develop a publication and e-book
to explore the history of the Italian community
in the Yarra Valley before 1945, especially
during World War Two.
Yarra Valley Italian
Cultural Group
$4,000
Sonic Graffiti
Sonic Graffiti is a community driven sonic art
project to be presented in multiple locations
around the Yarra Ranges Shire.
Peter Mcilwain
$5,000
Parcels From Home: A
Heritage Event
While commemorating the centenary of
ANZAC, explore how close the battlefields
were to Yarra Glen through the Bell family's
connection with the Red Cross.
The National Trust of
Australia (Victoria)
Gulf Station
$6,000
Living with Climate
Change- Dandenong
Ranges 2050
Deliver a multi-modal arts project developing
creative expressions exploring the changes on
our near horizon: climate, fire, flora fauna, built
environment, social and cultural change.
Danza Productions
$9,000
Ersatz Fantasia
Youth Music Project:
Listen, Create, Record.
TOTAL ARTS AND HERITAGE DEVELOPMENT
$10,000
$10,000
$ 67,300
2015 FESTIVALS AND EVENTS
Recommended
for Funding
Project Title
Project Description
Organisation Name
Awesome
Ornithorhynkids
Festival, 2015
Annual family festival to celebrate local biodiversity and the fact that residents in the
southern Dandenongs still have platypus in
Monbulk Creek, in the heart of their
community.
An annual community based Billy Cart race
day held in the Main St of Upwey. Designed to
bring life into the township and foster
community and family values.
Southern
Dandenongs
Landcare Group
$1,000
Upwey Billy Cart
Races
$3,000
Winter Warming is an event for locals to
venture out in the heart of winter, enjoy
community spirit and celebrate the winter
solstice.
A Sustainability focussed Community Festival
that is accessible to all demographics and
abilities within the community. A unique
celebration of our community and environment,
with education and innovative displays,
workshops, performances and people,
including the famous Recycled Fashion
Parade.
Celebrate Mooroolbark is an annual
community festival providing a family friendly,
fun and entertaining event by and for the local
community.
Belgrave Survival Day (BSD) is free
community festival held at Borthwick Park on
January 26th each year to celebrate and
acknowledge the value and vibrancy of
indigenous music and culture.
WHYLD
$5,000
Upwey Community Billy
Cart Races
WHYLD Winter
Warming
Yarra Valley ECOSS
$10,000
Celebrate
Mooroolbark Inc.
$10,000
Belgrave Survival
Day
$10,000
Selbyfest is a music and arts festival and
celebration of our community and The
Dandenongs with an emphasis on our
environment and an opportunity for community
development.
Provide a platform for inclusive community arts
workshops, exhibitions and performances for
people of all abilities.
Selby Community
House Inc
$8,000
Dandenong Ranges
Music Council
Incorporated
$5,000
Healesville Music
Festival
Present a music festival that promotes live
music and actively engages the community in
developing musical skills.
Yarra Valley
Musicians Collective
$10,000
Warburton Film Festival
2015
Annual weekend festival of Australian and
international feature films including special
guests, social functions and a short film
competition for local film-makers.
Yarra Ranges Film
Society
$2,000
Crank-up historic event
A two-day community event showcasing local
historical themes (including woodchop), the
Upper Yarra Museum as well as activities,
catering and information stalls.
Upper Yarra Valley
Historical Society
$5,000
Celebrating Mount
Evelyn
Plan and host a Bushdance to coincide with
the centenary of the ANZACS to celebrate all
we have in the Mount Evelyn community.
Mount Evelyn
Community House
(CHAOS Inc)
$4,200
Nordic Festival
A bi-annual event held in Warburton to
celebrate the culture and heritage of the five
Nordic Countries - Denmark, Finland, Iceland,
Norway and Sweden.
Nordic Festival
Ecotopia Junction
Festival 2015
Celebrate Mooroolbark
2015
Belgrave Survival Day
2015
Selbyfest
Burrinja with Attitude
$10,000
Celebrating a Centenary
of Community Fire
fighting Volunteers
Bring the community and various fire brigades
together in a traditional Torchlight Parade
through the main street of Warburton.
Warburton Fire
Brigade
$5,000
Burrinja Circus Festival
Two weeks of circus workshops, live
production mentorship programs, student
shows and professional shows that result in
the Burrinja Circus Festival.
Ruccis
$5,000
Belgrave Lantern
Parade
A community celebration at winter solstice that
includes lantern workshops leading up to a day
of celebration.
Belgrave Community
Arts Partnership
$10,000
Belgrave Buskers
Festival
Festival held in the Belgrave Town Centre
which invites performers of all ages and
abilities to join us in 'Taking to the Street'.
Belgrave Community
Arts Partnership
$3,000
Healesville Heritage
Festival
Heritage Festival celebrating Healesville's
history and making of our community.
Yarra Valley Railway
Inc
$6,000
TOTAL FESTIVALS AND EVENTS
$
112,200