The people of the Huon Valley are well known for their strength and resilience in the face of adversity, we are Stronger Together.
Huon Valley Council is committed to working alongside our communities in recovery, supporting and building the capacity of individuals, communities, businesses, and organisations.
Community Recovery Grants are provided to support groups to deliver community-based programs, activities and events that help the community to respond to and recover from the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic.
The guidelines explain which groups and projects are eligible to apply, how to complete an application and how the applications are assessed.
Community Recovery Grants now open
Applications are now open for the Huon Valley Council’s $10,000 Community Recovery Quick Response Grants Program – Round 2.
Individual grants of up to $500 are available to not-for-profit community groups and individuals for neighbourhood get-together projects that are COVID-safe and which demonstrate a real benefit to the community.
Download the guidelines and application form
Ways to submit
- Email your completed application to hvc@huonvalley.tas.gov.au
- Post your completed application to Huon Valley Council, PO Box 210, Huonville TAS 7109
For more info
For further information regarding a project proposal or for a copy of the guidelines and application, please contact:
Huon Valley Council
Phone: (03) 6264 0300
Email: hvc@huonvalley.tas.gov.au
Cover image: Geeveston public toilets mural project by Brian Looker, coordinated by the Geeveston Progress Association and supported by a Huon Valley Council Quick Response Grant 2020
2016/2017 Community Grants Recipients
Recipient: Cygnet Meals on Wheels
Project: Cygnet Depot
Approved Amount: $3,000.00
Description: Upgrade of Council Building
Recipient: Franklin Progress Association
Project: St Ayles Skiff Entertainment Festival
Approved Amount: $3,000.00
Description: Music entertainment associated with St Ayles Skiff Regatta
Recipient: Huon District Lions Christmas Parade
Project: Christmas Parade
Approved Amount: $869.00
Description: Christmas Parade
Recipient: Huon Valley Concert Band
Project: Acquisition of additional music
Approved Amount: $500.00
Description: Purchase additional music scores
Recipient: Huon Valley Dog Walking Association
Project: Dog Sports
Approved Amount: $1,550.00
Description: Purchase equipment to run regular dog sports
Recipient: Huon Valley Golf Club
Project: Practice Nets
Approved Amount: $3,000.00
Description: Construction of four bay practice nets
Recipient: Huon Valley State Emergency Service
Project: Samsung tablets and Bart app
Approved Amount: $1,673.00
Description: Purchase 3 x Samsung tablets and Bart app
Recipient: Port Cygnet Mens Shed
Project: Shed Extension
Approved Amount: $2,537.00
Description: To extend the existing shed
Recipient: University of the Third Age
Project: Positive Aging – flexible outreach
Approved Amount: $1,200.00
Description: Purchase presentation equipment
Recipient: Volunteer Marine Rescue
Project: Upgrade Safety Equipment
Approved Amount: $1,925.00
Description: Upgrade search & rescue equipment to the Volunteer Marine Rescue vessel
Recipient: Women on Wheels
Project: Huon Valley Women on Wheels Program
Approved Amount: $3,000.00
Description: Huon Valley WOW project offers women the opportunity to connect with bike riding and fitness
Recipient: Wooden Boat Centre
Project: Getting the Whaler on the Water
Approved Amount: $1,700.00
Description: Enable 1950’s Montague Whaler to return to the water
2017/2018 Community Grants Recipients
Recipient: Cygnet Bowls and Community Club
Project: Line Marker
Approved Amount: $726.00
Description: Purchase of a line marker to replace current chalk-marking practice
Recipient: Cygnet Primary School
Project: Playground Improvements
Approved Amount: $3,000.00
Description: Installation of new playground equipment
Recipient: Dover Community Workshop Inc
Project: Storage shed shelving
Approved Amount: $500.00
Description: Shelving fit out of external storage shed
Recipient: Dover District School
Project: Hall Furniture
Approved Amount: $3,000.00
Description: Tables and seating for meetings etc. in School Hall
Recipient: Franklin Working Waterfront Association Inc
Project: Energy efficiency: heat pump, window and insulation
Approved Amount: $2,500.00
Description: Installation of an energy efficient heating/cooling system in our tourism discovery centre and passisve system in the office to reduce electricity costs and for volunteer, staff and visitor amenity
Recipient: Huon & Channel Meals on Wheels
Project: Freezer
Approved Amount: $2,600.00
Description: Purchase of replacement freezer
Recipient: Huon RSL Sub-Branch Inc.
Project: Urn for kitchen
Approved Amount: $250.38
Description: Purchase of urn for kitchen as there is no current hot water supply
Recipient: Huon Valley Aquatic
Project: Huon Medal Meet
Approved Amount: $1,000.00
Description: Annual swimming event – grant to cover pool hire costs
Recipient: North Huon Cricket Club
Project: Under 13 uniforms
Approved Amount: $960.00
Description: Supply uniforms for reformed Under 13 junior side
Recipient: Port Cygnet Men’s Shed Inc
Project: Tool Sharpening System
Approved Amount: $749.00
Description: Purchase of professional tool sharpening system to maintain tools in good condition
Recipient: Sacred Heart Catholic School
Project: Frog Bog
Approved Amount: $1,000.00
Description: Creation of a “Frog Bog” garden with all necessary elements to enhance a naturally occurring wetland in school bushland
Recipient: Southern Tas Rescue inc.
Project: Huon Valley Stray Cat Trapping Program
Approved Amount: $983.00
Description: To trap stray cats in the Huon Valley and desex, microchip, vaccinate and rehome cats
Recipient: Tasmanian Trail Association Inc
Project: Trail remarking
Approved Amount: $1,805.07
Description: Supplies for replacement of trail markers from White Timber Mountain to Dover to ensure consistency throughout the State
Recipient: Uthando Project Tasmania
Project: Dolls for orphaned children in South Africa
Approved Amount: $378.00
Description: Purchase of materials to assist with ongoing costs of the project
Recipient: Friends of Randalls Bay Coastcare
Project: Echo Sugarloaf Nature Trail Stage 2
Approved Amount: $2,450.00
Description: Construction of low-impact nature trail within Echo Sugarloaf State Reserve
2018/2019 Community Grants Recipients
Recipient: Huon Domestic Violence Service
Project: Creativity and Calm Women’s Circle
Approved Amount: $ 1,663.00
Description: Empowering women after the bushfires in a safe space.
Recipient: Cygnet CWA
Project: Art of Preserving & Healthy Eating Workshops
Approved Amount: $ 537.00
Description: share the knowledge of the art of preserving, pickling and processing of food to the wider community
Recipient: Energy Future Team, Huonville High School
Project: Huon Valley Sustainable House Tour
Approved Amount: $ 475.00
Description: A sustainable house tour to engage the community
Recipient: Palliative Care Tasmania
Project: Life is Short: Plan Ahead!
Approved Amount: $ 200.00 – Council to support venue hire (Event Support) and Catering (Health and Wellbeing Program)
Description: A community info day for the older people of the Huon Valley to empower them with information on important topics so that they can make arrangements they want before the need arises and get on with living their best life.
Recipient: Cygnet Bowls & Community Club
Project: Surrounds Mower
Approved Amount: $ 965.00
Description: Purchase of a new surrounds mower for the club
Recipient: Dover Community Workshop
Project: Cleaner Air
Approved Amount: $ 999.00
Description: Installation of a clean air filter above woodworking area to remove hazardous fine wood dust particles which are known to be carcinogenic.
Recipient: Huon Valley Soccer Club
Project: Canteen Fitout
Approved Amount: $ 1,000.00
Description: Purchase of cooktop and range hood so that the canteen in the new clubrooms will be functional
Recipient: Edmund Rice Camps Tasmania
Project: Huon Valley Fire Response Services
Approved Amount: $ 900.00
Description: Running camp programs for children affected by the fires. Funding to be used to directly cover associated costs including catering, accommodation, activities, transport and volunteer training.
Recipient: Huon Valley Little Athletics
Project: New Clubrooms White Goods Fit out
Approved Amount: $ 1,000.00
Description: Purchase of whitegoods for upgraded clubrooms at athletics/soccer grounds
Recipient: Sacred Heart Catholic School
Project: Sacred Heart “Community” Science Fair
Approved Amount: $ 1,000.00
Description: School Science Fair during National Science Week
Recipient: Dover Community Workshop
Project: Tools Upgrade
Approved Amount: $ 724.54
Description: Replace Old Drills and Vital Items to Enhance Woodworking Area
Recipient: Port Cygnet Men’s Shed
Project: Scorby Tool Sharpening Equipment
Approved Amount: $ 677.00
Description: Extend The Capabilities of the Shed’s Tool Sharpening Machine
Recipient: Dover District High School
Project: Community Basketball Facilities
Approved Amount: $ 3,000.00
Description: Refurbish the Existing Outdoor Basketball Court for Community Use
Recipient: Huon Art Exhibition Group (HAEG)
Project: New Hanging System
Approved Amount: $ 2,000.00
Description: Replace Existing Screw Hooks with ‘Push Button Hooks’
Recipient: Upper Huon History Group
Project: Preservation Of Our History
Approved Amount: $ 996.00
Description: To Digitally Preserve the History of the Upper Huon are Through Photographic & Voice Records
Recipient: Huon Disability Network
Project: Marquee With Logo
Approved Amount: $ 989.75
Description: Make the Huon Disability Network Visible
Recipient: Huonville Men’s Shed
Project: Purchase Of Training Computer & Accessories
Approved Amount: $ 1,500.00
Description: Purchase of Computers & Accessories to Train Members on Computer Use
Recipient: Circular Economy
Project: Developing A Sustainable Community Composting Workshop
Approved Amount: $ 600.00
Description: Delivering Sustainable Composting Workshops
Recipient: Geeveston Golf Club Inc
Project: Defibrillator
Approved Amount: $ 1,500.00
Description: Installation Of Defibrillator at the Golf Course Clubhouse
Recipient: Huonville Football Club Past Players Officials & Supporters
Project: Defibrillator
Approved Amount: $ 1,275.00
Description: Installation Of Defibrillator at the Huonville Lions Football Clubrooms
Recipient: Scouts Australia Tasmanian Branch Huonville Scout Group
Project: Store Shelving
Approved Amount: $ 3,000.00
Description: Shelving & Storage for the Huonville Scout Group’s Equipment
2019/2020 Stronger Together Quick Response Community Grants Recipients
Recipient: Matthew Cameron
Project: Huon Valley Mountain Biking and Trail Development Club
Approved Amount: $1,000.00
Description: Developing a club with the specific objectives of enhancing mountain biking opportunities and creating mountain bike trails and infrastructure around the Huon Valley.
Category: Community
Recipient: Ruth Lindsell (Ripples Art Farm)
Project: Art in the Bush
Approved Amount: $1,000.00
Description: Interactive bush based art installation workshops: 1 x 6 children 9 – 12 years 1 x 6 youth 13 – 18 years
Category: Creative
Recipient: Huon Valley Mid Winter Festival
Project: VIRTUAL – Huon Valley Mid-Winter Festival
Approved Amount: $1,000.00
Description: This year we’re pulling together a free LIVE STREAM version of the MidWinter Festival featuring the much-loved wassail, burning man, Tassie’s best folk-punk acts, the eclectic costume comp and tales tall and true.
Category: Creative
Recipient: Huonville High School
Project: Café Karma student training café – redevelopment
Approved Amount: $1,000.00
Description: This project aims to rejuvenate the existing classroom style Café space at HHS to be able to offer a vibrant, authentic student learning and community meeting space.
Category: Youth
Recipient: Huon Art Exhibitions Group
Project: ‘Art in Pandemic’ – Online Exhibition
Approved Amount: $1,000.00
Description: The project aims to create an opportunity to collate, show and offer the public art works for sale that have been produced during COVID-19.
Category: Creative
Recipient: Circular Economy
Project: Inspirational Huon Enterprises
Approved Amount: $1,000.00
Description: This project will produce and widely distribute short videos that demonstrate how organisations in the Huon Valley are developing and applying creative and circular innovation.
Category: Creative
Recipient: Darren Lindsell
Project: Heart and Soul of the Huon Valley
Approved Amount: $1,000.00
Description: A large (2.4 x 2.4m) burning heart mounted on a steel floating platform
Category: Creative
Recipient: Geeveston Girl Guides
Project: Geeveston Girl Guides at Home Project
Approved Amount: $1,000.00
Description: Providing Girl Guides resources and support to undertake fun activities safely at home for the benefit of their family units and vulnerable aged community members.
Category: Youth
Recipient: Robyn Kazada (Castle Forbes Bay Recreation Club)
Project: Castle Forbes Bay Recreation Club Art Exhibition
Approved Amount: $1,000.00
Description: To host an Art Exhibition at Castle Forbes Bay Recreation Club comprising artwork from local area for the benefit of the bringing the local community and visitors.
Category: Creative
Recipient: Cygnet Folk Festival
Project: Cygnet Folk Festival Forty Year Retrospective
Approved Amount: $1,000.00
Description:
Category: Creative
Recipient: Geeveston Progress Association
Project: Geeveston Town Hall Public Toilet Mural Project
Approved Amount: $1,000.00
Description: This project aims to enhance and add social value to the public toilet refurbishments by using the external walls as an iconically themed mural canvas.
Category: Creative
Recipient: Balfour House
Project: Chalk Haiku
Approved Amount: $1,000.00
Description: Community developed haiku poetry installed on walls, windows and paths of Cygnet and Huonville. Theme: COVID and ‘here and now’ using stencilled spray chalk (ephemeral).
Category: Creative
Recipient: Nel Smit – Huonville High School Energy Hub
Project: Building Climate Resilience: Local Skills Workshops
Approved Amount: $1,000.00
Description: The Energy Hub will host a series of one- hour practical lunchtime workshops promoting sustainability practices, including energy efficiency, repair cafés, swap shop, food gardens and permaculture.
Category: Community
Recipient: Huon Disability Network (HDN)
Project: Huon Disability Network (HDN) Facilitated Strategic Planning Day
Approved Amount: $1,000.00
Description: HDN committee and members to engage in a facilitated strategic planning day to develop an innovative strategic plan, that connects Huon residents living with disabilities and carer’s, in the Covid19 and post pandemic context.
Category: Community
Recipient: Geeveston Community Centre Inc. (GeCo)
Project: Creating for Our Future
Approved Amount: $1,000.00
Description:
Category: Creative
Recipient: Kathy O’Hara and Valarie Matsumoto (Letter of Offer Withdrawn by recipient)
Project: Billycart Bonanza
Approved Amount: $1,000.00
Description: An entertaining, user-friendly motivational video directed at children and young people demonstrating the making of a billy cart and encouraging hands on resourcefulness.
Category: Youth
Recipient: Huonville Bulls Cricket Club
Project: Huonville Bulls Cricket Club’s Junior and Women’s Program
Approved Amount: $700.00
Description: We are very focused and committed to extend our junior program from last year, as well as starting up a Women’s team for all ages.
Category: Youth
Recipient: Cygnet Community Children’s Centre Inc.
Project: Heartfelt in Nature
Approved Amount: $995.00
Description: We are promoting the Heartfelt project within our service, talking to our children and families about the importance of community and caring for each other and our world. Then we’d like to light up the display as part of the now at home winter festivals.
Category: Community
Recipient: Lady Jane Heritage Park
Project: St John’s Church Exhibition Lighting
Approved Amount: $1,000.00
Description: Installation of overhead lighting track and spotlights in St John’s Church, Franklin. This will transform the interior, into a space ideal for cultural exhibitions, mounted by community artistic/historical groups.
Category: Community
Recipient: Playgroup Tas
Project: To Provide 2 Pop Up Playgroups
Approved Amount: $1,000.00
Description: To provide 2 pop-up playgroup events in Huonville in term 4 in order to engage with families with young children and investigate opportunities for future community playgroups for 2021.
Category: Community
Recipient: Deb van Velzen, Living Boat Trust
Project: Mobile AED for the Huon Community
Approved Amount: $430.00
Description: An Automated External Defibrillator (AED or “defibrillator machine’) will be housed at the Living Boat Trust (LBT) Franklin, but bookable by Huon Community groups for free, to use at other sites and events.
Category: Community
Recipient: Huon Regional Care
Project: Craft Activities for Residents
Approved Amount: $1,000.00
Description: Huon Regional Care’s Leisure & Lifestyle team would like to apply for funding to purchase items to participate in the Huon Valley Heartfelt Project, along with additional craft and creative items for resident activities during the COVID-19 lockdown in aged care.
Category: Community
Recipient: Early Support for Parents
Project: Community Support Services – COVID19 Huon Valley
Approved Amount: $1,000.00
Description:
Category: Community
Recipient: Lucy Wilson & Quin Thomson
Project: Dark Clouds and Silver Lining
Approved Amount: $1,000.00
Description:
Category: Creative
Recipient: The Cygnet Association
Project: Cygnet District Walks – Maps & Notes
Approved Amount: $1,000.00
Description: This project will research and document scenic and historic walks and provide paper maps and smart phone guides to encourage locals and visitors to enjoy and explore Cygnet’s beautiful walks.
Category: Community
Recipient: Dover and South Action Group (DASAG)
Project: Dover Community Hub
Approved Amount: $1,000.00
Description: Development of a community information hub to disseminate community and tourist information withing the Far South.
Category: Community
Recipient: Gai Anderson
Project: Taketina – Moving Medication for Mental Health
Approved Amount: $1,000.00
Description: 4 x 2 hour Taketina moving- meditation sessions. Two session in Cygnet and 2 in Geeveston.
Category: Community
Recipient: Dr L.J. Owen
Project: TAF2020 Huon Valley Children’s Short Story Competition
Approved Amount: $1,000.00
Description: Develop and deliver an online short story competition for children (to age 16) in the Huon Valley.
2020 Theme: Female Detectives
Category: Youth
Recipient: Huonville Primary School
Project: Huonville Primary School Breakfast Club
Approved Amount: $1,000.00
Description: During COVID-19 restrictions in Tasmania, the Huonville Primary School Breakfast Club shut down and requires additional funding to operate until the end of the 2020 school year.
Category: Community
Recipient: Chris Thompson
Project: Multilingual Tourism and Wineries App
Approved Amount: $1,000.00
Description: A suite of free Multi-platform mobile and desktop apps developed in cygnet showcasing local/national tourism and winery and related industries, implementing wine Australia’s recent $750,000 partnership with ATDW as part of the federal governments $50 million Export and Regional Wine Support Package.
Category: Community
2020/2021 Community Recovery Quick Response Grants - Round 1
Recipient: Port Esperance Sailing Club
Project: Port Esperance Regatta, Dover
Approved Amount: $ 2,000.00
Description: Port Esperance Sailing Club was destroyed by fire during the COVID-19 lockdown. This was devastating for our club and community. We are working hard to re-build, but need to provide a temporary venue for our Easter Regatta in 2021.
Category: Community
Recipient: Huon Anglican Church
Project: Livestream Huon Church Services and Events
Approved Amount: $ 1,294.27
Description: We’d like to purchase equipment which will enable us to livestream Church services and events for those who are unable to physically be there.
Category: Community
Recipient: Dover and South Action Group
Project: Community Film Night
Approved Amount: $ 500.00
Description: Free community screening of “Kiss the Ground” with pre-screening family friendly activities and sausage sizzle.
Category: Neighbourhood
Recipient: Ten Days on the Island
Project: Ten Days on the Island 2021 – Landscapes: A Chamber Music Journey
Approved Amount: $ 2,000.00
Description: Ten Days on the Island presents two music events in the Glen Huon Hall, part of its statewide Festival project If These Halls Could Talk.
Category: Event
Recipient: Dover Museum & Gallery
Project: Museum & Gallery bringing us Together
Approved Amount: $ 500.00
Description: COVID has made so many of community members worried about out. So we will be holding a small get together.
Category: Neighbourhood
Recipient: Port Huon Progress Association
Project: Relaunching the Port Huon Progress Association
Approved Amount: $ 380.00
Description: The Port Huon Progress Association wants to re-launch and re-engage with the community, especially new residents, and contribute to the community spirit of Port Huon.
Category: Neighbourhood
Recipient: Dover and South Action Group
Project: Dover Seafest 2021
Approved Amount: $ 1,350.00
Description: Dover Seafest is a free event that aims to build a stronger community, it is a great showcase for local producers and helps the tourism operators.
Category: Event
Recipient: Geeveston Community Centre Inc.
Project: Open Air Cinema – Geeveston
Approved Amount: $ 500.00
Description: Geeveston Community Centre would like to host an outdoor cinema evening at Heritage Park in Geeveston to support local people through a shared experience of fun.
Category: Neighbourhood
Recipient: Cygnet Community Arts Council
Project: Out of Haiku – Community Celebration
Approved Amount: $ 500.00
Description: Create a community get-together to re-establish, celebrate and build-upon the connections, creativity and community that developed during the Chalk Haiku (out of Covid) Project.
Category: Neighbourhood
Recipient: Salon
Project: Dark Cave: Sky Light
Approved Amount: $ 2,000.00
Description: A multi-voiced performance (of mythopoetic text DARK CAVE) with spoken, musical & choral elements interwoven through a silent audience procession around the atmospheric Tahune Airwalk.
Category: Creative
Recipient: Geeveston Community Centre Inc. – Scrubby Hill Farm
Project: Scrubby Hill Harm Allotment Tool Library
Approved Amount: $ 2,000.00
Description: Create a library of micro-farming tools to be used by community members working in the Scrubby Hill Farm Allotments growing food for Huon Valley community members.
Category: Community
Recipient: Lady Franklin Heritage Park Pty Ltd
Project: St John’s Church Art Exhibition Space
Approved Amount: $ 2,000.00
Description: We seek funds to develop an art exhibition for community use. We need easels for artists to work on and display their work.
Category: Creative
Recipient: Huonville Community Playgroup
Project: Huonville Community Playgroup Resource Kit
Approved Amount: $ 1,904.70
Description: Develop craft, music and story time resource kits to support the new community, volunteer run playgroup and enable it to provide a positive and engaging experience for local families.
Category: Community
Recipient: Damien English
Project: Huon Community Bonfire Night
Approved Amount: $ 2,000.00
Description: A not-for-profit event accessible to individuals and families of the Huon Valley. Includes a Welcome to Country, bonfire, music and food trucks.
Category: Event
Recipient: Oura Oura House
Project: Oura Oura House Sewing Room – OH&S Project
Approved Amount: $ 1,825.80
Description: To develop and implement a context-specific set of OH&S policies and procedures tailored for the activities of the Oura Oura House Sewing Room.
Category: Community