The people of the Huon Valley are well known for their strength and resilience in the face of adversity, we are Stronger Together.
Whilst this crisis has disrupted our usual way of life, it has also forced us to look out for each other.
Now and into the future we need to keep working together to support our neighbours and help our communities become even stronger than before.
Council is committed to recognising local skills, strengths and resources and supporting individuals, groups, clubs and organisations to be active in a variety of recovery initiatives.
Funding of up to $1,000 is available for activities that build capacity, strength and resilience in the Huon Valley Community. A total pool of $30,000 will be made available until the funds are exhausted. Funds will be split across 3 priority areas:
- $15,000 for community projects
- $10,000 for creative projects
- $5,000 for youth focused projects
For further information please contact:
Huon Valley Council
Phone: (03) 6264 0300
Email: hvc@huonvalley.tas.gov.au
To see how to connect with services and programs that can help you to stay informed and connected, helping us all to build a stronger Huon Valley, please head to the Stronger Together Page.
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