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The Glenorchy Community Fund Ltd has been awarding annual grants since 2010.

2019 Grants - Total $21,637

  • Claremont College

Enhanced Breakfast Progam

Amount $3500

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  • Claremont Flower Show group
    New signage

Amount $561

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  • Derwent Valley Concert Band

Music tutor weekend in Glenorchy

Amount $3000

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  • Glenorchy Community Care

New freezer

Amount $576

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  • Goodwood Primary School

New library books

Amount $3500

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  • Tasmanian Bus and Coach Society 

Restoration work on a 1963 bus

Amount $3500

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  • Glenorchy Girl Guides

Garden project

Amount $3500

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  • Lions Club of Glenorchy

Clubroom upgrade

Amount $3500 

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Total Grants approved: $21, 637

2018 Grants - Total $16,464

  • Ten Lives Cat Centre

Amount: $3500 for booklets used in Glenorchy schools

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  • Paraquad Glenorchy

Amount: $1257 for accessible kitchen equipment
 

  • St Johns Ambulance 

Amount: $2967 for multicultural lifesaving training

 

  • YMCA

Amount: $1740for a community garden project
 

  • Bee Literate

Amount: $3500 to publish a bee book that builds community capacity
 

  • West Moonah Community Centre

Amount: $3500 for web design for a food cooperative


 

 

Total Grants approved: $16,463.88

2017 Grants - Total $11,764

  • Glenorchy Golden Years

Project Building Sign
Amount $935.00

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  • Orchard Relocation Project

Amount $3,250.00
 

  • Story Island Project - Moonah Taste of the World stall

Projects Printing of 500 booklets  1507.00
Story Activity book design and Layout 300.00
Story Island T shirts  302.00
Total Amount $2109.00

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  • West Moonah Community House Action Group

Project Coffee machine for community cafe and training of

baristas.
Amount $3,500
 

  • St Francis Flexible Learning Centre.

Project Purchase of equipment for screen-printing. 
Amount $1970.00.


Total Grants approved: $11,764.00

2016 Grants - Total $15,643

  • Glenview 

Amount: $3500 for a marquee
 

  • Hobart Women's Shelter

Amount: $1000 for family entertainment for the women and children
 

  • Brave Foundation

Amount: $1500 for school resource packs
 

  • Metro Football Club

Amount: $1530 for training equipment
 

  • Club Kidprenuer

Amount: $2650 for entrepreneurial packs to launch at three primary schools in the Glenorchy municipality
 

  • Hazara Community of Southern Tasmania

Amount: $1000 to assist with a cultural day
 

  • Goodwood Community House

Amount: $3365 for a professional coffee machine to set up a community cafe
 

  • Ladies Probus Club

Amount: $1098 for a community-use data projector

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Total Grants approved: $15,643

2015 Grants - Total $11,694

  • German Choir
    Purchase of a new keyboard
    $1300
     

  • West Moonah Community House
    Wellness Expo
    $500
     

  • Hobart Police Citizens Youth Club
    Step Up Program for young males at Claremont College
    $2094.40
    ParaQuad Tas
    All Ability Sports Gala
    $2700
     

  • The Understory Network
    Seed collection walks & propagation workshops for community members
    $1600
     

  • Glenorchy Historical Society
    Birthplace of a City Project- interpretation panel and garden
    $3500


Total Grants approved: $11,694

2014 Grants - Total $12,166

  • Anglicare Tasmania
    Fridge for use by the Food Relief Program
    $3,366
     

  • Austins Ferry Primary School
    Picnic Settings for the school grounds to facilitate community use
    $2,400
     

  • St John Ambulance Tasmania
    Community Transport Service Pamphlets
    $647.90
     

  • Mission Australia Centre, Chigwell House
    Health & Wellbeing Program for residents of Chigwell
    $2,252
     

  • Annie Kenney Young Women’s Refuge
    Lounge Suite and Art & Craft Materials for the use of residents
    $3,500
     

Total Grants approved: $12,165.90

2013 Grants- Total $10,300

  • Montrose Bay High School
    Glenorchy Schools Writers Scholarship
    $3000
     

  • Glenorchy RSL Bocce Club
    Improvements at the Glenorchy RSL Bocce Club
    $1600
     

  • U3A Glenorchy
    Purchase of equipment
    $1000
     

  • Montrose Dragon Boat Club
    Purchase of a Dragon Boat trolley
    $800
     

  • West Moonah Community House
    Purchase of equipment for the Community Shed
    $1500
     

  • Bhutanese Community Assoc of Southern Tas
    Funding for 2 Cultural Festivals
    $2400
     

Total Grants approved: $10,300

2012 Grants- Total $6,520

  • Hobart Playback Theatre Company
    2 performances – Life in Glenorchy: Telling our Stories
    $1500
     

  • Windermere Primary School Association
    Windermere School Shed Equipment
    $1500
     

  • Family Planning Tasmania
    Youth services and health information card
    $2020
     

  • Bucaan Community House
    Youth Group Equipment
    $1500
     

Total Grants approved: $6,520

2011 Grants- Total $2,837

  • Uniting Aged Care- Strathaven in partnership with the MRC Southern Tas
    Music and Memories Project
    $837.46
     

  • Hobart Womens Shelter
    Literacy Project
    $1000
     

  • Goodwood Community Centre
    Childrens Orchard
    $1000


     

Total Grants approved: $2,837

Grants Awarded

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