to protect and preserve our local, natural environments.
This is through habitat improvement, the control of pests
and supporting local Landcare and Bushcare initiatives.
The following assistance grants were awarded:
• Single Action Shooting Australia: $1,000
Round one:
• Millmerran Scout group: $1,500
• Bat Conservation & Rescue QLD: $4,965
• Toowoomba & District Old Machinery Society.
$1,200
• Friends of the Escarpment Parks Toowoomba:
$2,539.70
• The 123rd Queensland Eisteddfod Toowoomba:
$12,000
• The Gidgee Coal Bush Ballad Awards: $1,300
• Toowoomba & District Woodcrafters: $1,500
• Pilton State School P&C Association: $4,940.90
• Toowoomba Repertory Theatre Society: $1,500
• Wildlife Rescue Rehabilitation and Education
Awareness Association: $4,718
• Wilsonton Progress Association: $3,875
Round two:
• Alternative Technology Association: $1,496
• Cambooya Landcare Association: $3,380
• Oakey Urban Landcare Group: $2,425
• Woop Woop Wildlife Rescue: $2,200
Events support grant program
Round two:
• Filipino Community of Toowoomba: $1,200
• Maclagan Memorial Hall Committee: $1,500
• Multiple Sclerosis Society of Queensland: $1,500
• Toowoomba and District Old Machinery Society:
$10,000
We recognise the important contribution community
organisations make to the region’s social wellbeing
and economic prosperity through a range of
imaginative events that celebrate the region’s
character and cultural diversity. We are keen to
support local not-for-profit community groups that
work to provide major, regional and community
events. Each application was considered against
the program guidelines and the following assistance
grants were approved:
• Toowoomba Lapidary Club: $1,308
Round one:
• Goombungee Haden Agricultural, Horticultural
and Pastoral Society: $7,332
• Anglican Parish of St Andrew’s Pittsworth: $1,000
• Australian Camp Oven Festival Millmerran:
$15,000
Sport and Recreation Support Grants
Our Sport and Recreation Support Grants are
available to nurture our region’s sporting talent by
assisting to build and maintain our sporting facilities,
sports tourism and developing the regional sporting
industry as a whole. The following assistance grants
were awarded in the 2015-16 financial year:
Round one:
• Highfields Football Club.: $12,500
• City Heart Toowoomba Group: $1,500
• Highfields Railways Bulldogs Cricket Club:
$20,000
• FE-FC Holden Car Club of Qld: $1,500
• Kingsthorpe & District Progress Association: $9,132
• Friends of Felton: $15,000
• Friends of the Sanctuary: $1,500
• Millmerran Auto Club Inc. on behalf of the
Pittsworth Sprints Committee: $4705.55
• Highfields North Eastern Downs Lions Club: $1,500
• Oakey & District Pony Club Inc.: $10,988
• Leukaemia Foundation of Queensland: $1,000
• Pittsworth Leagues Club: $10,860.91
• Middle Ridge Uniting Church: $2,000
• Pittsworth Show Society: $9,080.91
• Millmerran & District Historical Society: $1,500
• Toowoomba PCYC : $18,106
• Pittsworth Art Group: $1,300
• Range Carriage Club: $2,000
• Pittsworth Meals on Wheels: $1,040
• Royal Agricultural Society of Queensland.
$20,000
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