MORE than 50 community groups have received cash to make Knox richer.
Knox City Council has approved Community Development Fund grants for 57 projects, up from 44 last year.
Grants are provided to support progress towards the council’s Vision 2020 and must address an identified social, recreational, cultural or environmental need in the community.
Dobson Ward councillor Karin Orpen, who sits on the evaluation panel, said the program provided project-specific grants to locally focused, not-for-profit organisations that involved and supported Knox residents.
“It was encouraging to see 67 community groups applying this year and a healthy number that had not previously made grant submissions to council,” she said.
A total of 75 eligible submissions were received this year – 12 more than last year – requesting a total of $403,000.
The full budget of $195,000 was allocated, with more than 50 per cent of the recommended grants for $2000 or less.
Successful projects include a 50th anniversary publication for Ferntree Gully Guides, a mobile equipment bank to promote computer literacy for isolated people, a life scrapbook project for children in foster care and a quilting machine for the Our Lady of Lourdes Craft Circle.
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