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Extended Families

Australia

Kết nối Brimbank! - In

Vietnamese this means

Connect (in) Brimbank!

The project aims to increase participation of Vietnamese families in Brimbank who

experience barriers to inclusion that are linked to their lived experience of

disability, language, and cultural differences. Four ‘Come-Try-and-Connect’

community events will be held across 12 months to assist, encourage, and build

confidence of parents and children to become more involved in their local

community. Each event will support a minimum of 30 families and will be hosted in

collaboration with Brimbank Community Centres, community clubs, activity

providers, Vietnamese Families with Special Needs, and the Vietnamese

Community Association -Victorian Chapter. An average of 70-90 people will attend

each event. Participants will be asked about their inclusion support needs, barriers

they experience, and their community involvement aspirations. Information

gathered will drive event planning and design so that individuals are supported in

meaningful ways.

Across

Brimbank

$ 10,000.00

Life Saving Victoria

Limited

Diverse Communities

(CALD & Disability)

Connection through

Aquatic's Project

Building on the success of the previous programs and ongoing partnerships to

enhance our swim programs and employment pathway, we seek to include an

engagement with young people with a disability in aquatic education and skills

based learning. The program activities will continue to bring participants together

in local classrooms, community centres, households, Aquatic and Leisure Centres,

and local foreshores. We would engage over 650 local participants and volunteers,

contributing to the overall improvement of their health, well-being, community

connection and settlement. Program activities include: 10 x 1 hour aquatic

education 'Incursion' sessions (in class) to cover water safety education and/or CPR

practice (374 participants); 9 x half-day beach recreation excursions (165

participants - 145 CALD, 20 disability); a 10-week swimming program (48

participants); and 3 participants trained as qualified lifeguards/swim teachers.

Across

Brimbank

$ 10,000.00

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Curbside Carnies Curbside Carnies: Circus

Homework

A specialised circus engagement program targeting the First Nations, Torres Strait

Islander and refugee-background school-aged children in Brimbank. In partnership

with Koorie Homework Club and Edmund Rice Homework Club, we aim to run 10

engagement sessions with a duration of 1.5-2 hour each using circus arts. We will

be using the principles of creating positive social interactions through circus arts,

encouraging personal growth through curated programming and offering a

challenging yet low pressure environment to improve emotional, physical and

mental well-being. Attendees will have the opportunity to identify their favoured

skills and build on their capabilities over consecutive weeks alongside games and

acro-tumbling. The combination of these activities will work on individual

confidence and motivation as well as working creatively in a group, and connecting

with their identities and cultural artistic backgrounds.

St Albans $ 10,000.00

EdConnect Australia Lunch and Learn

workshops

We will run two Lunch and Learn workshops aiming at older residents in Brimbank

to provide them an opportunity for personal development and build long-term

social connections by participating in our inter-generational volunteer program in

local schools. We would provide additional training in Goal Setting and

Communicating with Culture to up-skill the existing Brimbank volunteers and

community members. The additional training would be extended to the local

community as an awareness and recruitment activity whilst creating inclusion,

connection and greater skills that could be applied in volunteering, personally and

professionally. We envision up to 20 people will attend each workshop and

accordingly we expect to reach 80 volunteers, and to recruit at least 6 new

volunteers to support the existing six Brimbank schools and their students.

EdConnect volunteer provides an average of 2 hours a week, which results in an

additional 120 hours per week to support 6 Brimbank schools as a result of this

project.

Across

Brimbank

$ 3,000.00

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Migrant Resource

Centre North West

Region Inc.

Look at Me - Disability

Empowerment through

Community Inclusion

The program will run in partnership with Scope Australia and Yooralla to create a

hub of activities for CALD people with a disability to be involved including arts,

music and woodwork groups. This will not only provide the opportunity for the

target group to develop skills but will have a profound and lasting impact to change

community attitude towards people with a disability by seeing them as active

members of society. It is also a very important step of getting the target group out

of confined day services and be completely immerse and involved within the

general community.

- The woodwork group will run 4 extra sessions within the community at the Tin

shed for community members to be also involved.

- The arts group will have participants taking photos of places in the Brimbank and

then drawing/painting those scenes.

- The music group will organise 4 outdoor performances in the community.

- End of year celebration will happen in early December 2023 to coincide with the

International Day of People with a Disability at the Granary cafe in Sunshine with

art and woodwork exhibitions and music performance.

Across

Brimbank

$ 7,500.00

Islamic Museum of

Australia

Islamic Museum of

Australia Outreach

Program

The outreach program will engage the community through a suite of educational

activities for children and adults on a bi-monthly basis over a 12-month period in

person and on-site at Council libraries across Brimbank. Programs will be chosen

from a catalogue of workshops designed to promote lifelong learning and

strengthen social cohesion by sharing Islamic arts, heritage and culture, and

highlighting the contributions of Muslims in Australia and abroad. Some of the

programs include paper mosaics, tea and coffee tasting from Islamic worlds,

Arabian Night storytelling and Persian poetry reading, mandala workshops,

introduction to arabesque, and DIY solar lanterns.

Across

Brimbank

$ 9,000.00

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Deer Park North

Primary School

Community Hub

Women Empowerment

Social Network

A Women Empowerment Social Network program aiming to build confidence,

social cohesion, and increase sense of belonging and inclusiveness in our

community targeting mothers with young children, especially those of Burmese

backgrounds. The weekly activities will centre on sewing classes that promote

learning, skill development and social connection among the women in the group.

There will be cultural and linguistic support, English language development and the

opportunity to explore topics of interest such as starting a business and women's

health. We will introduce the women to our local services including libraries,

community hubs, parks and playgrounds, and encourage them to utilise these

services. A celebratory event will conclude our project and create a sense of

achievement where other members of the community will be invited to join and

celebrate.

Across

Brimbank

$ 8,530.00

Distinctive Options The DO Music Collective A collective of people with disabilities that come together over a six-month

program to form a music ensemble. The program empowers people to pick up an

instrument and have a go, giving them an opportunity to break barriers through

their love of and participation in creating music, and encouraging a sense of

belonging and inclusiveness and possibilities whilst strengthening community ties.

In partnership with Distinctive Options and Brimbank Council, we will work toward

a series of public concerts and our penultimate performance will be held in

conjunction with the International Day of Disability 2023 to celebrate all things

disability.

Across

Brimbank

$ 6,000.00

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Vietnamese Business

Support Organisation

Inc.

Vietnamese Community

Business Workshops

Targeting Vietnamese small business owners and entrepreneurs in Brimbank, the

project aims to equip participants with knowledge in common aspects of running a

successful business including government regulations and policies, digital

marketing, networking, and the overall strengthening of business for a better

success. Our four events, one held in each quarter, will address language barrier

issues of participants, help them in navigating taxation system, managing accounts,

utilising new innovations as well as learning generic business management. We

hope that, as a result, our participants will be given an opportunity to overcome

language barrier to learn, prosper and contribute to the community in positive

ways.

Across

Brimbank

$ 7,000.00

Firekeepers Inc. Nature Connection for all Targeting students at Sunshine Heights Primary School and their families, the

project aims to build their resilience, improve their health benefits and sense of

belonging by connecting them to their local Kororoit Creek. The project will

comprise: catch up and co-design sessions with older, previous participants; 2 x 6

week sessions for 12 students (24 participants and 2+ teachers); year level-wide

Nature Connection Games and Activity Afternoons; and a celebration day with

families involved (over 100 participants).

Sunshine $ 5,000.00

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Lions Club of Taylors

Lakes

Take Pride in our Park -

Greening Taylors Lakes

The project aims to encourage local residents who care about the Taylors Creek

Linear Park to help maintain it. This provides an opportunity for residents to

become involved in a local volunteering experience, help to keep their

neighbourhood tidy, give them a chance to meet other like-minded residents, and

encourage the sense of pride and ownership for the local park. Sessions will be

held on a Sunday morning from February to November, and focus on weed and

rubbish removal, planting in winter months and other maintenance of the space as

required. The monthly garden maintenance sessions will be held at the Lions Club

Adopt A Park, a small section that the club maintains in partnership with the Parks

and Garden team of Brimbank Council.

Across

Brimbank

$ 3,000.00

Sunshine Heights

Cricket Club Inc.

We Don't Like Cricket, We

LOVE It!

The program aims to continue to engage with young people from asylum seeker,

refugee and culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds and build upon the

strength that has been built over the past 10 years to foster the connection with

young people. We will provide weekly sporting engagement and support some

specialised coaching for more experienced players as they continue to develop

their skills and love of cricket. The funds are required to specifically support the

participation of young asylum seeker and refugee boys and girls for the upcoming

season.

Across

Brimbank

$ 3,000.00

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Brimbank Croquet

Club

Promoting a healthy

Brimbank community

through active recreation

The project aims to encourage community members to actively participate in a

come-and-try day of croquet in a relaxing environment to enhance their physical

and mental health. We propose to run two come-and-try days, one in Nov. 2022

and another in March 2023, plus an open day for Seniors in Oct. 2023. These

events will be free for the community to attend, with equipment supplied and

coaching available from an accredited croquet coach. Light refreshments will be

offered during and after the free sessions to encourage community participation.

The social environment the events create will assist our community members to

reconnect with other like-minded members and promote a sense of social inclusion

and connection, which is extremely important for our mental health.

Across

Brimbank

$ 1,800.00

Victoria University

Secondary College

Be Well, Stay Well

A mental health and wellbeing project targeting at risk young people in Brimbank.

The project will include delivering targeted well-being and mental health

workshops to our diverse student cohort in years 7 to 10 inclusive (approximately

760 students), students representing more than 30 language and cultural

backgrounds. This proposed first phase of the project will explore the themes of

connectedness and positive mental health, encouraging young people to be aware

of, and to access community services that support mental health and wellbeing.

(The intent of a second phase of this project in 2024, is to work with project

partners to extend the reach of the project to other agencies). The project will take

place over two days: one day for the year 7 to 9 students at our Deer Park campus,

and another day for year 10 students at our Cairnlea campus. (In collaboration with

another community partner a separate program is being planned for our year 11

and 12 students).

Deer Park $ 3,000.00

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Women's Support

Network

Root, Moss, Blossom, and

Feather: Exploring

approaches to increase

mental wellbeing for

Brimbank women.

A self-support program targeting women in Brimbank. The 12 weekly sessions will

engage the target group using self-selected, supportive, creative, and uplifting

group activities to shift entrenched mental patterns, help them to become

connected, form new constructive self-narratives, and generally become more

engaged in their own lives. Activities include: gentle physical activities; art & art

therapy; making reflective smart phone videos; photo-documentation; an

exhibition of their artworks, and a Women's Health Week event. Participants will

learn physical, breathing/meditation techniques and strategies to support

themselves to maintain mental and emotional stability and well-being.

Across

Brimbank

$ 9,920.00

CALD Seniors

Association of

Victoria Inc.

Community Strengthening

& Mental Health Project A community strengthening and mental health project aiming to reduce social

isolation and loneliness and improve health and well-being of CALD families

impacted by COVID-19. Project activities include: fortnightly social support group;

outings, respites, celebratory events, exercise, games, seminars/forums,

training/information sessions, social visits and online/social media connections.

Across

Brimbank

$ 8,500.00

Mental Health and

Wellbeing

Foundation

Project Sunrise Outreach The project aims to undertake needs assessment of the group of young Africans

who have been hanging around the Bowery Theatre and St Albans Community and

Arts Centre to identify reasons behind the regular gathering as some people have

been seen as being drunk or under the influence of drugs/substances. We would

use dialogues, group discussion model and sporting activities to engage with the

young people to identify issues and needs. We would also collaborate with relevant

stakeholders to explore best practice interventions and collaborative approaches

to ensure the target groups are supported and engaged in improving their own

situations. There would be weekly engagement meetings and meals and sporting

equipment be made available to aid the engagement with the young people.

St Albans $ 10,000.00

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Ardeer South

Primary School

Tapping into Wellbeing The project will deliver a series of workshops, facilitated by Bianca Mangarnaro, a

certified practitioner from 'Defeat Healing Naturally", designed to capacity-build

students, parents and wider community with skills and strategies to manage

mental health/anxiety and build resilience. The Workshops will expose participants

to various strategies and practices in alternative and holistic health in the space of

well-being, self-care and mental health. The project would build on the sense of

connection by inviting identified 'at risk' students, carers/parents, pre-school

students, staff, and our immediate wider community into our Wellness area under

the newly appointed shade sails adjacent to the Hope Garden. The workshops will

be open to kindergarten students and their carers from Ridgeway and Fairbairn

Road Kindergartens with further outreach to the immediate community.

Sunshine $ 7,000.00

Polish Community

Council of Victoria

Seniors Health Club

A senior’s health club program aiming to improve mental and physical well-being of

participants by providing an opportunity for socialisation and connection. Seniors

in the Brimbank area will be invited to meet at the Polish Sporting, Community &

Recreation Centre in Albion on a fortnightly basis. They will be led by a facilitator

through a gentle exercise session, appropriate to the participants’ age and health

condition, followed by a short talk on a health topic or issues relating to seniors.

Materials will also be distributed and after exercise and a short talk, participants

will discuss the day’s topics, followed by light healthy refreshments.

Sunshine $ 8,000.00

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First Contact / Viet

Love Inc.

Family First

To maintain COVID safe, we will host 3 online talk shows by lawyer and mental

health experts targeting migrant women to address issues facing by this cohort

including: language barrier, social isolation, mental health, and family relationship

and violence. Topics covered include: mental health, children and parents

communication, basic civil law such as intervention order, domestic violence, and

family law.

Across

Brimbank

$ 5,000.00

Chin-Myanmar

Community Care

Back To Normal

Focusing on the Burmese/Chin elderly and other seniors groups, the project aims

to provide opportunities for them to meet and socially connect with one another

to reduce loneliness, stress, and isolation and to promote their mental health and

wellbeing by being actively engaged in community life. The project will comprise

three activities: a Bowling Day, a BBQ Cookout, and/or an outing trip. It is

anticipated 30 residents will directly benefit from the project.

Across

Brimbank

$ 2,500.00

St Albans Business

Group Association

Inc.

2023 Lunar New Year

Festival

The St Albans Lunar Festival is an annual traditional event that brings together the

communities and businesses to promote their services and products whilst

celebrating the Lunar New Year in January 2023. The event will feature stalls and

outlets for local brands and businesses to educate and promote their services and

products, assortment of traditional food outlets, entertainments, and cultural and

musical performances for all ages and backgrounds.

St Albans

$ 25,000.00

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5 Angry Men

The Wayfarers

A public space performance that roves between three areas of Sunshine and St.

Albans public libraries and surrounding outdoor spaces: the interior, the entrance

foyer area, and a specific point in public space outside. For the outside section of

the show, a ‘giant book’ prop will be used. The performers will be linked via an in

ear monitoring system: each performer will have a radio receiver and an earpiece

and will be able to receive performance tasks and choreographic instructions in

real time from the director/stage manager. This will enable the ensemble to

alternate between specific in individual tasks - book balancing, interacting with

other people - with unison chorus tableaux and choreography such as walking in

perfect synch past library shelves. The piece will run for approximately 50 minutes

and incorporate a team of 12 performers including disability artist support workers.

St Albans

$ 20,000.00

Football

Empowerment Inc.

African Nations Cup 2022 The festival will provide community members an opportunity to get together in a

safe and accepting environment, bringing together talented African-Australian

youth soccer teams from across Victoria which will create a sense of belonging and

harmony. Activities include: youth soccer tournament for boys and girls, free

soccer clinics for kids, youth and female leadership forum, cultural performances

and entertainment for all ages and backgrounds.

Keilor

$ 17,900.00

Utsav Melbourne

Association (UMA)

Mega Indian Spring Festival

& Durga Puja 2023

An annual Indian/Hindu festival bringing together more than 20 multicultural

groups to pay homage to the Indian Goddess Durgan, celebrate the victory of good

over evil whilst also pay tribute to the power of feminism. Activities include Indian

rituals, arts and cultural performances, traditional lunch and dinner for all patrons.

The event aims to foster inclusion and the sense of pride and belonging in the

community.

Across

Brimbank

$ 24,000.00

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Nga Matai Purua Inc. Waitangi Sports Festival

2023

The event will bring the New Zealander, Māori & Pasifika Communities together

along with other communities in Brimbank to share knowledge of the history of

colonisation in Aotearoa (New Zealand), increase connection between isolated

community members, promote pride and understanding amongst the communities

involved and empower the Aotearoa (New Zealand) community to engage with

each other and local formal sports teams utilizing the international language of

sport. The one-day sporting festival will encourage our community to take part in

one of the three sports (netball, volleyball or touch rugby) and engage with support

services onsite. Cultural food, music and performances will be available and bi

lingual approach will be utilised.

Keilor $ 9,800.00

Bach Viet Dance Not

For Profits

Association Inc.

From Sapa To The Red

River - (A Multicultural

Show Of Northern

Vietnam)

The event will showcase different tribal costumes from Sapa and the Red River,

take our audience to different regions of North Vietnam, and provide experience of

different cultures through story-telling, singing, and dance performances. Ahead of

the event, there will be workshops held on dancing, stories telling, singing, and

acting which will bring participants together and encourage the sense of

connection and belonging.

St Albans $ 10,000.00

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Western Edge Youth

Arts

Edge Ensembles St Albans

Performance Night

A community youth theatre project aiming to create safe and creative spaces for

young people, especially those experiencing structural disadvantage, to come

together to build strong personal and professional relationships; develop skills in

performance-making, digital artforms, collaboration and leadership; and share

food and stories. A weekly workshop will be held between May - September 2023

by Western Edge’s Lead and Support Artists will also work with select Guest Artists

who will teach performance skills such as dance or music production. At the

culmination of the program, the participants will exhibit a collection of their work

at St Albans Arts and Community Centre.

St Albans

$ 10,000.00

Vietnamese Families

with Special Needs

Inc.

Vietnamese Families Active

Day

The event will provide active play games, sensory activities and a Vietnamese lunch

which will bring Vietnamese families with special needs together to share cultural

heritage, knowledge and skills with next generations. Participants will have an

opportunity to develop physical and social skills, increase sense of belonging and

social connections.

Deer Park

$ 3,375.00

Santa Marija Assunta

Association Inc.

Santa Marija Assunta

Traditional & Cultural

Maltese/Gozitan Village

Festa

The event is a unique cultural festa nostalgia from Malta/Gozo symbolising national

identity and freedom attended by thousands of residents every year. Activities

include a colourful parade with brass bands, children dressed in costumes, grounds

adorned with flags, coloured bunting, and cloth pavilions which create a sense of

belonging and connections for all involved.

Deer Park

$ 10,000.00

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Avalokitesvara Yuan

Tong Monastery Inc.

Buddhists of the West

Multicultural Festival 2023

The event is jointly held by various community groups to celebrate Buddha’s

Birthday and perform a historical practice of ‘Alms offering’ (dana) of food to the

Sangha (monastics) who come from diverse cultural backgrounds. The day will be

filled with activities such as cultural, historical and interactive programs, Q&A

Dharma talks with senior faith leaders on resolving life issues, meditation and

Chinese calligraphy classes, music, cultural dances, children’s activities and bathing

the baby Buddha event. The festival will enhance social connections especially

among isolated community members.

St Albans

$ 10,000.00

Enjoy Church

Carols at Enjoy

A combined in-person and online event, making it as inclusive and accessible as

possible, for our community to connect and engage with a live broadcast carols

presentation. This free to attend carols event will include interactive singalong

carols, message of hope and love, community stories highlights, kids segment

including Santa and giveaways. This will bring the joy of the festive season and

provide a point of connection and inclusion for our community.

Across

Brimbank

$ 7,200.00

Keilor Sports Club 2023 Keilor Gift

The event will bring together the community to promote health and wellbeing

through active exercise, and to create a safe, friendly environment where members

of the community can relax and enjoy the company of others.

Keilor

$ 10,000.00

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Sunshine Golden Age

Garden Club Inc.

Gardening for a Healthy

Planet

Our event will look like a room full of flowers, plants, vegetables, craft, cookery,

photography etc., displayed on tables, in a facility that is accessible to all, where

children's art work is displayed, all with a theme of the importance of guarding our

planet and our mental health. Currently the bees that pollenate almost all natural

plants are in danger of eradication through the varroa mite. The event will

encourage the Brimbank public to do their part in eradicating the effects of climate

change by growing bee attracting plants as our contribution to help combat the

effects of climate change. It will be an opportunity to draw local residents in to

educate them not only of the dangers facing bee keepers but how they can attract

bees to their own gardens to make them more fruitful.

Sunshine

$ 5,757.00

The Lions Club of

Taylors Lakes

Lions Music & Picnic in the

Park 2023

The event aims to provide an opportunity for the local community to come

together and build a sense of cohesion and community, particularly when we have

faced difficult times of isolation, mental health deterioration and social reluctance.

It will be a day of music, food and fun for all ages. Children will be entertained with

live performances, novelty experiences and fun activities. Local residents, their

families and friends will enjoy a fun event in beautiful surrounds.

Keilor

$ 10,000.00

Duke Street

Community House

Association

Duke Street @ 50

A week of events for our 50th anniversary culminating in a festival day involving up

to 500 local community members from diverse backgrounds in September 2023 in

order to deepen a shared sense of belonging and to improve overall mental health

and wellbeing. Activities include: gardening and yoga sessions, school holiday

activities, a photo exhibition with the theme 'Proud to be in Sunshine', and a

festival day to celebrate our neighbourhood.

Sunshine

$ 10,000.00

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MMG Concert Band

of Victoria

Celebration of Maltese

Music in Brimbank Lights,

Camera, Action

The event is a celebration of the MMG Concert Band of Victoria's 5th Birthday to

reinforce the Maltese Community's position as a safe and supportive community to

other members of Brimbank. A gala evening will provide entertainment by MMG

Concert Band of Victoria using the theme Lights, Camera, Action. Celebrations will

also use local business and other Maltese programs such as the Maltese Language

school through the Maltese Community Council of Victoria to also showcase the

Maltese Language.

The celebration of MMG Concert band of Victoria is all about providing opportunity

to celebrate the Maltese culture across all age groups.

Keilor

$ 10,000.00

St Albans Sports Club

inc.

St Albans Gift

The event encourages community participation through athletics and family

friendly activities. We will be working with community and cultural groups to make

the event more inclusive. Activities on the day will include a footy clinic, aerobics,

kite flying demonstration. Entertainment, children's rides and food stalls will be

available throughout the event.

St Albans

$ 10,000.00

Maltese Community

Council of Victoria

Inc.

Wenzu u Rożi

Wenzu u Rozi is an original comical theatre production “teatrin”, scripted and to be

directed locally, based on the book of short stories titled “Id-Dinja ta’ Wenzu u

Rozi” by George Zammit. It narrates episodes in the life of an elderly, loving yet

frequently bickering couple. The background is Maltese village life in the early

1900s; days of innocence and hardships. It is to be performed twice at the Bowery

Theatre in St Albans on Sunday 19th February 2023.

St Albans

$ 9,982.00

Women of Brimbank

Inc.

Women of Brimbank

Multicultural Showcase

The event will showcase the different multicultural communities in Brimbank that

will come together to demonstrate their culture and showcase their cultural

performances, food, and music. We will provide an opportunity to the public to

see, experience, and embrace all cultures our local community has to offer whilst

the children will have a fantastic time will all the children activities.

Sunshine

$ 10,000.00

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Australian

Vietnamese Arts Inc.

"TET" Lunar New Year

Celebration

TET Festival, also known as Vietnamese Lunar New Year, is the most important

festival of the year for Vietnamese community. The event will showcase dances

and music performed by Vietnamese community artists and local multicultural

performing artists in Brimbank. It will be a free concert at the Italian Sporting Club

in St Albans on Saturday, 21 January 2023

St Albans

$ 10,000.00

Tongan Victorian

Association Inc.

Tonga Day 2022

Tonga Day is a day where we all come together as a community to celebrate. It is

open to the public to come experience our culture, performances, food, arts, music

and so much more. The festival is an opportunity to highlight and embrace the

values of the Tongan people which include, mutual respect, cooperating and

fulfilment of mutual obligations, generosity, loyalty and commitment, which have

been rooted in our Tongan history. We believe that respect is the most important

value to teach and pass on our children and grandchildren and many generations

to come.

Sunshine

$ 10,000.00

The Polish Museum

and Archives in

Australia Inc.

30th Anniversary of the

establishment of the

Polish Museum and

Archives in Australia Inc.

In partnership with the Polish Club Albion, we will celebrate the 30th Anniversary

of the formation of the Polish Museum and Archives in Australia Inc. The

celebration involves sharing a meal, guest speakers, an exhibition, photographic

displays and other cultural activities which will bring together the Polish

community to showcase the organisation's commitment and work in preserving

and documenting Polish organisations, activities, celebrations, and the life of Polish

migrants in Australia after World War II. This event will provide exposure of the

Polish Museum and Archives in Australia’s goals, activities, projects and future

plans to the broader community and other migrant groups in the Brimbank area, in

order to build social connections.

Sunshine

$ 9,000.00

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Uganda the Pearl of

Africa Victorian

Association - UPAVA

Ugandan Independence

and Cultural Discovery

Festival

The festival aims to bring all the Ugandans together to share and enjoy the cultural

diversity through food, dancing, arts and crafts and various other aspects. It will

also encourage the local mainstream Brimbank community to participate to

promote a shared sense of belonging within Brimbank.

Sunshine

$ 9,000.00

Australian Burundian

Community in

Victoria Inc.

The Burundian Cultural

Identity Celebration in

Victoria

The Cultural Identity celebration festival will take place over two Saturdays, one in

July and another in October 2023. The first Saturday will be the celebration of

Independence Day of Burundi, where different people share their knowledge about

the history of Burundi, and different performing groups including the Burundian

Drums and other groups will perform. The second event will involve diverse

cultural performances by Burundian community as well as other groups within the

local communities to participate. The event's primary goal is to foster harmony

between generations within the Burundian community in Victoria and also to

nurture the relationship that Burundians enjoy with the local or mainstream

community.

St Albans

$ 10,000.00

Victorian Tamil

Association Inc.

Tamil Cultural and Sports

festival

We aim to celebrate our culture with dance, music and drama and encourage the

community to participate in our activities to promote social connections. Activities

include a sports event, cultural show, and dance and musical training. The events

will be live streamed to create awareness within the community about our

activities and community services.

Across

Brimbank

$ 8,000.00

Cameroon

Community of

Australia Inc.

Cameroon Soccer Cup In partnership with African Sisterhood we will launch a soccer tournament in

Brimbank which will bring together different community groups to weave social

ties. The tournament aims to encourage cultural sharing, build community

connections, reduce social isolation, promote community participation, and

improve social and mental health of community members.

Across

Brimbank

$ 10,000.00

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Rabitet Masrina Inc. Clean up Australia day and

Community dinner

(Ramadan Iftar)

We will hold two separate events. The first event is going to be park-based where

we will have a picnic with children's games, followed by the creation of teams to

clean up the park then present awards for those who took part. This will encourage

our community to actively participate through the Clean-up Australia event. The

second event will be a community dinner, to celebrate the Islamic tradition of

Ramadan Iftar. We usually have traditional music, games for young and old, quizzes

and prizes, and then we have traditional foods and prayers for those who would

like to take part. This will bring our community together to share a meal,

knowledge of culture, increase a sense of belonging, and connect with others after

the long break of the previous years.

Across

Brimbank

$ 2,500.00

Tamang Society Of

Victoria Inc.

Dashain and Tihar Festival

2023

A two-day festival starting the first day with a tournament participated by eleven

clubs. We will have friends and family participating and cheering for their favourite

teams. The second day will be a celebration with cultural performances, blessing

ceremony, games, fun activities, traditional foods and prize distribution to lift the

team spirit and give opportunity for everyone to get involved.

St Albans

$ 5,000.00

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Kororoit Creek

Neighbourhood

House

Growing Home - Heat

Island Effect Project

The project will engage and support the community on the issue of heat island

effect by resourcing households to increase vegetation and canopy coverage in

their neighbourhood to reduce urban heat, targeting areas within Brimbank that

have lower canopy cover. The project will comprise: creation of fostering program

for propagated plants to point of viability for planting out (tube stock) and be a

platform for peer-to-peer conversations/community advocates; distribution of

range of small-medium tree species (propagated and commercially grown);

establishment of minimum of three verge gardens in a workshop format; and

workshops activities on ways to actively reduce heat with nature-based and passive

heat reduction strategies. The project will develop informational/advocacy

materials accessible to our diverse community.

Across

Brimbank

$ 8,375.00

Cairnlea

Conservation

Reserves Committee

of Management

Good Grassland Neighbour

- Podolepis Parade

The Good Grassland Neighbours - Podolepis Parade Program will engage local

residents living near remnant native grasslands in the Cairnlea area to help to

extending the habitat available for grassland pollinators by establishing a Podolepis

Parade around each of our three Cairnlea Grasslands. Activities include:

dissemination of information about the values of the grasslands and tips for being a

good grassland neighbour; providing each residence facing the reserves with a

large (14cm) pot of Podolepis linearifolia that can be planted at the residence or on

the nature strip; residents will also receive a 'Good Grassland Neighbour' footpath

decal; larger footpath artwork will be installed to celebrate the Basalt Podolepis

which is a grassland icon and an important plant for local grassland pollinators and

the associated food web. Each of 110 residences will receive a voucher for a

grassland starter kit of 8 native tubestock plants to create a habitat garden. Further

200 vouchers will be available to any residents who live in Brimbank.

Across

Brimbank

$ 9,960.00

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Kontiki Cultural

Women

Empowerment Inc.

Waste Reduction and

Recycling

Waste Reduction and Recycling is a 12 months up cycling community project

targeting young people, adults and families. The project will engage participants to

create artistic fashion designs using recycling fabric to ensure that textiles and all

kinds of excess fabric cut offs are used in order to reduce waste to the

environment. Participants will be given the opportunity to work alongside trained

and qualified sewing machinists to create reusable items such as: kitchen aprons,

kitchen gloves, simple unique shopping tote bags, bean bags, table cloths and

chair-backs. We will utilise gara and batik ink tie-dye techniques and patched work.

Activities include: information sessions on textile from production to landfill,

excursion to landfills to see the evidence of textile waste in Brimbank, education

seminars on the impact of waste, destruction of land, and climate impacts. The

products will be exhibited as part of the Be Bold Festival 2023.

Across

Brimbank

$ 10,000.00

Environment

Education Victoria

(VAEE)

Climate Adaptive School

Grounds

This project will undertake detailed research and development of practical design

options for Brimbank schools to adapt to climate change, increase biodiversity,

manage water, reduce erosion and improve student wellbeing. It will stimulate

community conversation about the likely impacts of climate change and

opportunities for adaptation and sustainability within the context of a changing

climate. Students, visitors and the community will see their campus as part of the

broader landscape that visualises sustainability and habitat connections. It will

expose students to options for future study and careers. Public displays of collated

student work will be displayed to the broader community through libraries and/or

Council foyers and will facilitate conversations about climate adaptation in schools.

Across

Brimbank

$ 7,500.00

22

Sunshine Heights

Primary School

Break It Down - a project

for and by school-aged

youth to break down

stereotypes

The project seeks to help school-aged young people to explore, unpack and break

down the various stereotypes that hinder their identity, wellbeing and mental

health, and social and emotional development whilst encouraging them to be

advocates for breaking down and calling out stereotypes and bias. Break It Down

will develop a magazine and resource book that shares stories and expressions by

young people about stereotypes, their experiences and the impact this has, as well

as providing educational and practical tips, strategies & actions people can take to

break down stereotypes. A documentary co-created by diverse young people in the

Sunshine community will also be created as an educational tool. Submissions and

collaborations will be sought from local and primary schools in Sunshine, as well as

experts in the area, and the documentary and magazine/resource book will be

published and circulated to schools in the area as a teaching tool. The project team

will also establish a Sunshine-wide ‘Break It Down’ Day, inviting schools to use this

day to actively break down stereotypes through dress ups and bias-breaking

activities that the project youth leaders will put together.

Across

Brimbank

$ 10,000.00

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Future Connect Realise Your Potential Using a human centred design, we are seeking to develop and test career tools

specifically for neuro-diverse residents. The funding will be used to develop a

prototype video, test it with a focus group of neuro-diverse residents, make

changes, and then develop three videos. The young people involved in the project

will benefit by having the opportunity to develop their confidence, team work,

communication, self-management, and problem solving skills. The videos will be

used to help neuro-diverse job seekers to increase their confidence in job seeking

in the long term. Viewers will have assistance in applying for work that is accessible

for them and meets their specific needs. The resources/tools would be promoted

to the Career Practitioners Network convened by Future Connect with over 60

professional members who work across Brimbank and Melton.

Neurodiversity is an umbrella term that describes conditions such as Autism

Spectrum Disorder (ASD), Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), Specific

Learning Difficulties (SLDs) including dyslexia, dyscalculia, dysgraphia etc.,

Dissociative identity Disorder (DID) and others.

Across

Brimbank

$ 9,950.00

Our Lady's Primary

School-Student

Leaders

Our Lady’s Year Six

Leadership Day

The Leadership Day is a day where 4-6 youth leaders come to talk about leadership

to inspire 100-150 young leaders. Eight Brimbank primary schools will be invited to

attend. The day is planned, organised, and run by the Year Six Leaders at Our

Lady’s, with the help and support from the principal, teachers and office staff. The

students involved will write a letter to sponsors for support, design the logo and

draft the booklet that has details of each speaker, introduce and thank the

speakers as well as welcome schools and give them gift bags. It is hoped that the

skills that the students learn at the Leadership Day will stay with them for the rest

of their lives.

Sunshine

$ 9,250.00

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Tigrean Youth

Association Victoria

Connecting Tigrayan youth:

wellness and cultural event

Designed by youth for youth, this project aims to help young people aged 15-25

from CALD backgrounds to build community connections and relationships while

nurturing their cultural identity and take a holistic approach to address mental

health and wellbeing through a two-day cultural and soccer event. This project will

engage young people from a refugee background who are at -risk and currently

experiencing ongoing trauma as their native homeland (Tigray, Northern Ethiopia)

is under a humanitarian crisis. The programs include a Tigray exhibition, traditional

cuisines, cultural wear, music, a soccer tournament, and a mental health seminar.

Across

Brimbank

$ 10,000.00

St Theresa's Primary

School Grade 6

students

Who is scared of high

school? Not any moooore!

The project is an event for high school and primary school students to come

together to form a deeper understanding of our future high school. We will split

into groups with 2 people from each high school where the students will ask

questions individually to students from the school they are attending. There will be

a panel where the students from high school will speak about their school. After

that we will host a Bluearth session in groups depending on our high school, there

will be free pizza and great opportunities to see familiar faces prior to next year.

The program will include: guided discussions where students talk about change,

feelings about going to high school and develop questions they want to get

answers to (school pay); panel - 3 primary schools, 10-16 yr. 8 students from 5

secondaries answer student questions, then sit with their respective year 7

students and have a chat (school to pay); and a Bluearth day - 70 Yr. 6 students

from three schools, 6 secondary student mentors, Bluearth and school staff will

come together at one school in Sunshine to do relationship building activities and

have pizza (Seeking Council Youth Grant).

Sunshine

$ 4,160.00

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Sri Lankan Study

Centre for the

Advancement of

Technology and

Social Welfare Inc.

Youth Committee

Sri Lankan Cultural Variety

Show

As young people of the SCATS Youth Committee (a stream of Sri Lankan Study

Centre for the Advancement of Technology and Social Welfare Inc.) we are hoping

to hold a Sri Lankan music and dance variety show, opening auditions for this to all

young Sri Lankans in the community to showcase their talents in Sri Lankan dance

and music, therefore, giving them the platform to express their passion about their

culture and heritage.

St Albans

$ 10,000.00

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1 Association of Ukrainians in Victoria

St Albans

467 $1,000

2 Australian Bosnian Seniors Group Inc.

St Albans

86 $1,000

3 Australian Croatian Senior Citizens Club Inc.

St Albans

103 $1,000

4 Australian Croatian Senior Citizens Club St Albans

St Albans

350 $1,000

5 Australian Macedonian Seniors Group Nostalgija of

Brimbank Inc.

Deer Park

150 $1,000

6 Australian Ukrainian Senior Citizens Fellowship Golden

Age

St Albans

80 $1,000

7 Brimbank Hungarian Senior Citizens Inc.

St Albans

90 $1,000

8 Brimbank Senior Citizens Friendly Group Inc.

St Albans

139 $1,000

9 Circolo Pensionati De Brimbank Inc.

Keilor Downs

25 $1,000

10 Circolo Pensionati Italiani Di St Albans Inc.

St Albans

53 $1,000

11 Cyprian Greek Orthodox Community Apostolos Andreas of

Sunshine

Sunshine West 49 $1,000

12 Cypriot Turkish Elders Group

Albion

30 $1,000

13 Deer Park Senior Citizens Club

Deer Park

120 $1,000

14 Filipino Australian Senior Citizens Of Victoria (FASCOVI) St Albans

45 $1,000

15 Filipino Elderly & Youth Association Inc.

St Albans

50 $1,000

16 Greek Cypriot Parent & Youth Club Western Suburbs of

Melbourne

Sunshine West 70 $1,000

17 Greek Orthodox Archdiocese & Parish of St Anthony

Sunshine

Sunshine

467 $1,000

18 Harvester Day Club

Sunshine

125 $1,000

19 Indian Seniors Association West

St Albans

70 $1,000

20 Indochinese Elderly Refugees Association VIC

St Albans

124 $1,000

21 Italian Independent Senior Club of Sunshine

St Albans

150 $1,000

22 Keilor Activities for Older Adults

Avondale

Heights

79 $1,000

23 Keilor Downs Senior Citizens Bocce Club

Kealba

50 $1,000

24 Keilor Life Activities Club Inc.

Keilor

300 $1,000

25 Keilor Macedonian Elderly Group

Keilor Downs

50 $1,000

26 Keilor Over 50's Recreation Club Inc.

Kealba

27 $1,000

27 Latin Seniors St. Albans Group

St Albans

40 $1,000

28 Macedonian Pensioner Group Uspeniena Presveta

Bogorodica of Sydenham Inc.

Deer Park

25 $1,000

29 Macedonian Pensioners Group Brimbank "Dimce

Mogilceto" Inc.

Deer Park

120 $1,000

30 Macedonian Pensioner's Group 'Pitu Guli' Inc.

Taylors Lakes

28 $1,000

31 Macedonian Senior Citizen Group of Ardeer Inc.

Sunshine West 28 $1,000

32 Macedonian Senior Citizen Woman’s Group St. Albans

‘Pelister’

St Albans

95 $1,000

33 Macedonian Senior Citizens Group West Sunshine

Sunshine West 30 $1,000

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34 Macedonian Senior Citizens Group Markovi Kuli Inc. Deer Park

50 $1,000

35 Macedonian Senior Citizens Pelister Club St Albans

St Albans

125 $1,000

36 Macedonian Senior Dancing Group " Veseli Makedonki" Sunshine West 105 $1,000

37 Macedonian Senior Group "Tumbe Cafe"

Hillside

140 $1,000

38 Macedonian Seniors Group Kings Park Inc.

Kings Park

200 $1,000

39 Macedonian Women Seniors Citizens Group Pelisterka Inc. Kealba

43 $1,000

40 Macedonian Women's Senior Citizens Group Markovi Kuli

Inc.

Deer Park

130 $1,000

41 Macedonian Women's Group Elpida Karamandi Inc.

Kings Park

36 $1,000

42 Maltese Cultural Association of Victoria Inc.

Albion

80 $1,000

43 Maltese Senior Citizens Association (West Sunshine

Multicultural Maltese Senior Citizens, Inc.)

Sunshine West 176 $1,000

44 New Age Woman Awareness Group Inc (New Friends

Senior Citizen Group)

St Albans

40 $1,000

45 North Cyprus Turkish Association of Victoria

Albion

75 $1,000

46 Polish Senior Citizens Club Ardeer Inc.

Ardeer

259 $1,000

47 Probus Club of Taylors Lakes

Taylors Lakes

85 $1,000

48 Probus South Pacific Limited (Combined Probus Club Deer

Park)

Deer Park

100 $1,000

49 Rabat Malta Senior Citizens Association Inc.

St Albans

18 $1,000

50 Santa Marija Assunta Association

Deer Park

37 $1,000

51 SCATS Senior Citizen Organization

St Albans

70 $1,000

52 Senior Chilean Group Inc.

Deer Park

72 $1,000

53 Senior Citizen Fishing Club Macedonian Inc.

Kings Park

22 $1,000

54 Senior Citizens Melbourne Croatia Inc.

Sunshine

North

50 $1,000

55 Senior Citizens Turkish Club (Cyprus)

St Albans

22 $1,000

56 Senior Polish Friendship Club

St Albans

35 $1,000

57 Seniors Latin Club Inc.

Sunshine

195 $1,000

58 Serbian Pensioner Club King Peter Inc.

St Albans

140 $1,000

59 Serbian Senior Social Club Nikola Tesla Inc.

St Albans

60 $1,000

60 St Albans Senior Citizens Club Inc.

St Albans

35 $1,000

61 St Bernadette Seniors Club Inc.

Sunshine

North

59 $1,000

62 St Pauls Catholic Church West Sunshine

Sunshine West 79 $1,000

63 St. Helena Maltese Australian Social Club & Seniors Group

Inc.

Albion

115 $1,000

64 St. Sebastian Seniors Association

St Albans

118 $1,000

65 Sunshine Multicultural Italian Seniors Group

Sunshine

650 $1,000

66 Sunshine RSL Memorial Bowling Club

Sunshine

120 $1,000

67 Sydenham Baptist Church (Tuesday Friendship Group) Sydenham

120 $1,000

68 The Lakes Estate Residents Assoc. Inc U3A Group

Taylors Lakes 210 $1,000

69 The St Albans Combined Pensioners Association

St Albans

80 $1,000

70 Turkish Cypriot Elderly Women's Association Inc.

St Albans

31 $1,000

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71 U3A Brimbank

Albion

70 $1,000

72 West Sunshine Greek Citizens Club

Sunshine West 120 $1,000

73 West Sunshine Multicultural Spanish Senior Citizens Group

Inc.

Sunshine

32 $1,000

74 West Sunshine Turkish Senior Citizens Group

Sunshine West 150 $1,000

75 Western Chinese Friendship Association

St Albans

30 $1,000

76 Western Region Maltese Women’s Group

Sunshine West 28 $1,000

77 Western Suburbs Maltese Association Inc.

Keilor Downs

21 $1,000