A scoreboard for Ballan Recreation Reserve and an arts sculpture for the Bacchus Marsh Platypus Alliance highlight the recent round of Moorabool council community grants.
Council approved the community grants recipients at its council meeting earlier this month.
Ballan Football Netball Club received $54,917 for an electronic scoreboard at the Ballan Recreation Reserve.
Mayor Rod Ward said the new scoreboard would complement the new pavilion being built at Ballan Recreation Reserve.
“The recreation reserve will look fantastic with the new pavilion and scoreboard erected,” Cr Ward said.
Other grant recipients were Bacchus Marsh Platypus Alliance, which received $3000 for a public art sculpture; Wombat Regional Arts Network, which received $3000 for a concert; Blackwood Times, which will benefit from $3000 for technological enhancements; Ballan Shire Historical Society, which received $5000 for book reprinting; Elaine Mechanics Institute Hall, which will buy life saving equipment with its $1844 grant; Moorabool Gardens for Wildlife which received $1000; Bacchus Marsh Lawn Tennis Club, which will put its $3000 grant towards an inclusive tennis tournament; Mount Wallace Hall and Reserve, which received $3000 for open mic events; and Woodlands Wildlife Rescue, which was given $2910 for a community awareness project.
“All of these projects and programs are very worthy grant recipients and will bring great benefit to our communities,” Cr ward said.
