Community Support Fund
Community History Grants
Grant Approvals from 1 July 2009 to 30 June 2010
Project Name
Recipient
Project Location
Cataloguing and Digital Preservation
of the Records Collection of the
Anglican Parish of Bacchus Marsh
extending over 150 years
Anglican Parish of Bacchus Marsh with
the Bacchus Marsh & District Historical
Society Inc
Moorabool Shire
4,000
Create a searchable database of
mining claims in the Bendigo area
1863-1933
Australian Institute of Genealogical
Studies - Bendigo Area
City of Greater Bendigo
2,000
Australian Red Cross 2014 Centenary
Project - Heritage Collection
cataloguing and conservation
Australian Red Cross
Melbourne City Council
8,000
In Perfectly Safe Hands - a history of
local government in Geelong and
district
Geelong Historical Society Inc
Greater Geelong
2,500
DVD – 140 years of Chinese
Participation in the Bendigo Easter
Festival - 1871 to 2010
Golden Dragon Museum
City of Greater Bendigo
Kent Road Primary School History
Project (formerly - Kent Road State
School History Project)
Kent Road Primary School - History
Project
Southern Grampians
Shire
1,900
Interpretive Development of Maldon
Museum's Collection and Historic
Building
Maldon Museum & Archives Association
Inc
Mount Alexander Shire
5,000
Training, Conservation treatment, and
storage advice for Historical and
Genealogical Societies and the
Library Service to preserve rare
collections in our district
Merbein District Historical Society Inc
Mildura Rural City
Council
7,751
Heritage Walk Project—Celebrating
Moonambel’s 150 years of European
settlement
Moonambel Arts and History Group, a
subcommittee of Moonabel Events Inc
Ballarat City Council
A History of the Alexandra
Football/Netball Club
Alexandra Football/Netball Club
Murrindindi Shire
Albury/Wodonga Pioneer Register
Wodonga Family History Society
Wodonga City Council
$
10,000
625
3,740
600
Ash Wednesday stories
Cockatoo Neighbourhood House
Cardinia Shire
6,800
Ballarat Base Hospital Nurse Training
School 1888 – 1988
Ballarat Base Hospital Trained Nurses
League Inc
Ballarat City Council
1,500
Bannockburn Shire Rate Books
Imaging Project
Inverleigh Historical Society
Golden Plains Shire
641
Bendigo Easter Fair – A Book
Bendigo Easter Fair Society Inc
Bendigo Regional Archives Centre
(BRAC) Website
Bendigo Regional Archives Centre
City of Greater Bendigo
8,000
Bestchance, Burwood and Beyond. Over a century of caring for children
Bestchance Child Family Care
Monash City Council
6,000
Birregurra Businesses of Now and
Yesterday
Birregurra District Historical Centre Inc
Colac Otway Shire
4,000
City of Greater Bendigo
5,000
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Project Name
Recipient
Project Location
Buchan Bush Nursing 1911-2011
Buchan Bush Nursing Association Inc
(BBNA)
East Gippsland Shire
5,627
Building a Port - the Worker's Stories
(working title)
Portland Family History Group Inc
Glenelg Shire
5,350
Bulla School in Bygone Days
Sunbury and District Heritage Association
Hume City Council
$958
Castlemaine Mails 1931 – 1983
Castlemaine Historical Society Inc
Mount Alexander Shire
3,350
Catalogue on computer
Rosedale and District Historical Society
Inc.
Wellington Shire
4,000
Catalogue or bust!
Wycheproof Historical Society
Buloke Shire
4,500
Community Volunteer Cataloguing
Wimmera Mallee Pioneer Museum
Hindmarsh Shire
3,350
Copy Swan Hill Guardians 1969-1973
Swan Hill Genealogical & Historical
Society Inc
Swan Hill Rural City
Council
4,950
Costumes and Collectables Exhibition
Royal South Street Society
Ballarat City Council
5,000
Create A History Of Dingee
Dingee Progress Association Inc
Loddon Shire
3,500
Creswick & District Stories
Creswick and District Historical Society
and Creswick Museum
Hepburn Shire
6,500
Digital scanning of Keilor Historical
Society newsletters
Keilor Historical Society Inc
Brimbank City Council
2,000
Digitise Photo Negatives c1940
Echuca Historical Society Inc
Campaspe Shire
3,940
Digitising the Warracknabeal Heralds
Warracknabeal and District Historical
Society
Yarriambiack Shire
8,000
Digitization of Fitzroy Rate Records
1958 – 1973
Yarra Libraries
Yarra City Council
5,000
Digitizing ' Microfilm Copies of St
Arnaud Mercury 1864-1900
St Arnaud Friends of the Library
Northern Grampians
Shire
5,760
Displaying Our History
Edrington Park History Research Group
City of Casey
1,309
Document Rescue
Bright & District Historical Society Inc.
Alpine Shire
3,000
Everton District Local History Book
Everton Hall and Sporting Complex
Committee
Rural City of Wangaratta
1,000
Framed Photo Restoration
East Loddon Historical Society Inc
Loddon Shire
1,200
Gum Trees, Lagoons and Flat Plains
Yarroweyah Memorial Hall Committee/
Yarroweyah Community Coordinators/
Koonoomoo Improvement Group
Moira Shire
6,525
Historic Community Photograph
Display
Bahgallah Memorial Hall Incorporated
Glenelg Shire
1,100
History of the King Valley
King Valley Learning Exchange
Housing of Negative Collection
East Gippsland Historical Society Inc
Rural City of Wangaratta
East Gippsland
$
2,100
4,740
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Project Name
Recipient
Project Location
Identifying Buninyong's Early History
Buninyong and District Historical Society
Ballarat City Council
2,000
In The Pipeline
Donald History & Natural History Group
As Part Of The Donald MLA Society
Buloke Shire
5,698
Inmagic Museum Package Upgrade
Wonthaggi and District Historical Society
Bass Coast Shire
1,885
Interpretative Signage in the Hamilton
Botanic Gardens
Friends of the Hamilton Botanic Gardens
Inc
Southern Grampian Shire
3,800
Kilmany Centenary Celebrations and
Book
Kilmany Public Hall and Recreation Centenary Sub- Committee
Wellington Shire
4,000
Maribyrnong
Brimbank
Hobsons Bay
$
Koorie Digital Quilt of the West
(working title only)
Footscray Community Arts Centre
Kooyoora Booklet
Dja Dja Wurrung Clans Aboriginal
Corporation
Loddon Shire
Leigh Shire Rate Books Imaging
Project
Leigh Historical Society
Golden Plains Shire
962
Manangatang 100 Years - Sharing
the Stories
Manangatang Improvement Group Inc
Swan Hill Rural City
8,500
Merton Community History
Merton Landcare Inc
Mansfield Shire
3,500
Mission to Seafarers Archive
Mission to Seafarers
Melbourne City Council
5,000
Paynesville Maritime Resource
Centre
Paynesville Maritime Museum Inc
East Gippsland Shire
3,000
Plaques for significant sites
Jeparit Heritage Walk Committee
Hindmarsh Shire
3,000
Port Phillip Personalities - the legacy
of the 1803 Sullivan Bay Settlement
The Friends of the Collins Settlement,
Sorrento, Inc
Mornington Peninsula
Shire
3,000
Preservation of the Bunyip & District
Newsletter
Bunyip & District Newsletter
(Incorporating the Bunyip Historical
Society)
Cardinia Shire
870
Preserve Axedale History Records
Axedale Our Town Our Future Inc
City of Greater Bendigo
2,500
Print the book VRRS Vol 2:
Mechanical Weighing Machines
Australian Railway Society (Victorian
Division) Inc
Hobsons Bay City
Council
3,000
Publication of 'Families of the Mount'.
Mortlake & District Historical Society Inc
Moyne Shire
3,000
Publication: 'The natural history of
Whitehorse
Box Hill Historical Society Inc
City of Whitehorse
2,100
Queenscliffe Harbour & Fishermen’s
Flat Oral and Visual History
Queenscliffe Maritime Museum Inc.
Borough of Queenscliffe
3,175
Remembering pre-World War II
Chinese Australia
Museum of Chinese Australian History
Melbourne City Council
7,850
Rochester and District Progress and
History 1854 – 2004
Rochester Historical and Pioneer Society
Campaspe Shire
2,900
Saving our local newspaper
Nhill and District Historical Society
Hindmarsh Shire
5,000
10,000
3,883
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Project Name
Recipient
Project Location
Saving the History of Nathalia and
District
Nathalia Historical Society
Moira Shire
6,413
Significance Assessment of the Pern
Collection
The Sovereign Hill Museums Association
Ballarat City Council
4,500
Story Board Local History Display
Upper Plenty Mechanics’ Institute Hall
Association Inc
Mitchell Shire
5,000
Strong Roots - Resilient Communities
Buloke Shire Council
Buloke Shire
8,000
Taradale Town Walk
Taradale Historical Group
Mount Alexander Shire
5,000
The Berriwillock Memory Bank
Berriwillock Community Development
Group
Buloke Shire
4,850
The Centenary of Closer Settlement
Girgarre Living History Group (Subcommittee of Girgarre Community Group
Inc)
Campaspe Shire
5,000
The Heytesbury Settlement 50 Years
on: Miracles, Memories and Madness
Simpson & District Community Centre Inc
Corangamite Shire
6,365
The History of Beeac - 150 Years of
European Settlement
Beeac District News’ – sub committee of
Beeac Progress Association
Colac Otway Shire
6,000
The History of the Volunteer
Associations - Fire Brigades in
Victoria
Volunteer Fire Brigades Victoria
Whitehorse City Council
The John Mackersey diaries Cavendish 1857 – 1871
Cavendish Townscape Association
Southern Grampians
Shire
7,000
The Overland Trek for Gold in early
1850's
Cornish Association of Victoria Inc
Port Phillip City Council
2,250
Unlocking Melbourne Kuo Min Tang
Society's Historic Archives
Kuo Min Tang Society of Melbourne
Melbourne City Council
9,600
Viable Viewing
Blackwood District Historical Society
Moorabool Shire
2,014
Whats your story
Yea Historical Society Cataloguing
Project
Winda- Mara Aboriginal Corporation
Yea & District Historical Society Inc
Glenelg Shire
Murrindindi Shire
$
10,200
10,040
2,200
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