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Our Event Grants program provides financial assistance to event organisers to ensure all residents and visitors have access to a range of recreational, social and cultural activities. The funding program supports events held in Indigo Shire to be a celebration of place and foster town vibrancy and to be inclusive, accessible and open to local community members and visitors alike.
Indigo Shire Council is committed to working in partnership with local clubs, community groups, committees, service providers and businesses to deliver place-based events that consider:
Volunteerism and opportunities for participation
Economic yield
Township vibrancy – celebration of place
Building place profile
Creativity and innovation
Resilience through connectivity
Inclusion and accessibility
Environmental sustainability
Our Event Grants Panel assesses all applications before providing funding recommendations to Council.
The 2024/25 Event Grants round closed on Monday 5 August 2024
Our Event Grants program provides financial assistance to event organisers to ensure all residents and visitors have access to a range of recreational, social and cultural activities. The funding program supports events held in Indigo Shire to be a celebration of place and foster town vibrancy and to be inclusive, accessible and open to local community members and visitors alike.
Indigo Shire Council is committed to working in partnership with local clubs, community groups, committees, service providers and businesses to deliver place-based events that consider:
Volunteerism and opportunities for participation
Economic yield
Township vibrancy – celebration of place
Building place profile
Creativity and innovation
Resilience through connectivity
Inclusion and accessibility
Environmental sustainability
Our Event Grants Panel assesses all applications before providing funding recommendations to Council.
The 2024/25 Event Grants round closed on Monday 5 August 2024
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We advise the following recipients were awarded funding through our Event Grants 2024/25 round at the 16 September Council Meeting:
Applicant
Event
Grant amount ($)
Art Starts Here
Wearable Art Workshops
1,000
Arts Rutherglen INC
Rutherglen Art, Country and echoes from time
1,000
Beechworth Bakery
Beechworth Bakery Street Festival - Celebrating 40 Years
3,000
Beechworth Community Christmas Lunch Working Party
Beechworth Community Christmas Lunch
1,000
Beechworth Football Netball Club
Beechworth Football Netball Club Easter Fun Run
2,500
Beechworth Old Cranks Motor Club inc.
Beechworth Drive Back In Time
3,500
BMF Productions Pty Ltd t/a Beechworth Music Festival
Spring Ditch 2025
5,000
Bridge Road Brewers
Beechworth Granite Classic
4,000
Chiltern Athenaeum Incorporated
The Day the Movies Came to Chiltern
1,500
Cornishtown Hall Reserve
Cornishtown Hall Reserve 150th Anniversary
1,000
Drag'd Out Beechworth Inc
Drag'd Out Beechworth
5,000
Indigo Creek Landcare Group Inc
Connecting Culture: Film screening and community celebration
1,000
Insight Speech
Connecting Creative Minds
2,000
Kergunyah Memorial Hall
Kergunyah Bushdance
2,000
Old Stone Hall
Old Stone Hall Live Music, Visual Arts and Workshop Events
4,000
Osbornes Flat Community Centre Inc.
Osbornes Flat and district Community Christmas Gathering
1,850
Rotary Club of Rutherglen Incorporated
Rutherglen Rotary Country Fair
5,000
Rutherglen Agricultural Society
Rutherglen Annual Agricultural Show
2,000
Rutherglen Carols by Candlelight
Rutherglen Carols by Candlelight
2,700
Rutherglen Community Christmas Lunch Incorporated
2024 Rutherglen Community Christmas Lunch
930
Tangam/Kiewa Community Carols
Tangam/Kiewa Community Carols
1,000
Wahgunyah Tennis Club
Racquets Against Breast Cancer
500
Wholehearted Inc
Dragonfly Theatre Group - Spring Show
6,000
Wooragee Primary School
Wooragee Easter Market
1,796
Yack Community Christmas
Yack Community Christmas Lunch
1,000
Page last updated: 02 Jun 2025, 02:51 PM
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Tuesday 1 July 2025
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4pm Thursday 21 August 2025
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September Council Meeting 2025
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