Recipients of the 2016-2017 Local History Grant Program have been awarded.
Abbotsford Convent Foundation
Awarded $14,918.00
Saved: A History of the Abbotsford Convent
Ballarat Fish Acclimatisation Society
Awarded $3,971.00
Historical display signs and display case
Ballarat Tramway Museum
Awarded $8,000.00
Interpretation of Ballarat's heritage trams and their role in the community
Benalla Historical Society Inc
Awarded $14,500.00
Digitisation of Benalla "Standard" Newspapers
Benalla Migrant Camp Inc
Awarded $9,500.00
Benalla Migrant Camp 1949-1967 Digital Storytelling Project
Boolarra and District Historical Society Inc
Awarded $6,500.00
Boolarra Museum Display Renewal
Brighton Historical Society Inc
Awarded $10,630.00
Brighton Historical Society Costume Collection Project
Cann River Community Centre
Awarded $750.00
Cann River Local History Project
Charlton Traffic Safety Education Centre as part of Charlton College
Awarded $1,730.00
Redeveloping and promoting the Charlton "Bill's Trough"
ChillOut Daylesford Inc
Awarded $14,200.00
ChillOut Daylesford History: Conserving a Collection & Sharing Stories
Chiltern Athenaeum Trust
Awarded $8,405.00
Treasures Revealed, Treasures Preserved: Chiltern Athenaeum Museum Collection
Collective of Self Help Groups (COSHG) Inc
Awarded $4,270.45
Picturing Social Justice - Posters from the 80s and 90s
Darebin Creek Management Committee Inc
Awarded $3,267.00
Napier Waller Artist History Board
Daylesford & District Historical Society Inc
Awarded $7,500.00
Remembering Daylesford's Three Lost Children Tragedy after 150 years
Dunkeld Museum Inc
Awarded $10,000.00
Dunkeld Historical Town Walk
Echuca Historical Society Inc
Awarded $14,927.22
Digitised Archiving of Riverine Herald 1998 - July 2005
Hobsons Bay Libraries
Awarded $1,345.00
Explore Hobsons Bay Heritage Tours App
Hustlers Reef Reserve Advisory Committee
Awarded $10,000.00
Reef Quartz Gold Miners Heritage Trail
King Valley Tourism Association
Awarded $4,450.00
The Spirit of Salts
Korowa Anglican Girls' School
Awarded $2,758.80
Korowa Anglican Girls' School Heritage Trail
Kyneton Contemporary Inc
Awarded $9,220.00
Public View: A Creative Exploration into Kyneton's Past
Latin Stories Australia
Awarded $14,997.00
From Latin American Stories to Victorian History: Building Bridges
Longwarry & District History Group Inc
Awarded $3,490.00
Longwarry and District History Group Website Development
Maldon Museum & Archives Association Inc
Awarded $3,000.00
Our Stories: A Brief Social History of Maldon
Mallacoota & District Historical Society Inc
Awarded $7,310.00
Purchase display cases for collection items
Mordialloc College Alumni Association (MCAA) Inc
Awarded $5,480.00
Mordialloc College Alumni Association Digitisation and Preservation Project
Moreland City Football (Soccer) Club
Awarded $3,400.00
Displaying our Soccer (and Victorian immigration) history project
Murrindindi Shire Council
Awarded $5,000.00
The cultural memoir of Taungurung Elder, Uncle Roy Patterson
My World is Round
Awarded $2,854.00
Recording of oral history of Victorian "Soccer" migrants
Nepean Historical Society Inc
Awarded $4,840.00
Investigating the 1803 Collins Settlement Burial Sites
Nillumbik Shire Council
Awarded $12,575.00
Nillumbik Heritage Digital Guide
Nyora & District Development Association
Awarded $3,930.00
Preserving the History of Nyora
Oakleigh City Band Inc
Awarded $3,480.00
Bandstand Beauties: building a history of Victorian Bandstands and their music
Otway Districts Historical Society Inc
Awarded $2,336.00
Otways Coverlet research and conservation project
Phillip Island National Surfing Reserve Working Group
Awarded $2,039.00
Phillip Island National Surfing Reserve Archiving Project
Progressing Cobden Inc
Awarded $13,650.00
Making History: Cobden Story (Stage 2)
Richmond & Burnley Historical Society Inc
Awarded $5,334.00
Victoria's Earliest Potteries
Societa' Isole Eolie
Awarded $6,500.00
Aeolian Heritage and Archive Conservation Project
Stawell Historical Society Inc
Awarded $3,527.00
Glass Display Cabinets for the Stawell Historical Society's Museum
The 1812 Theatre Ltd
Awarded $5,000.00
The History of The 1812 Theatre
The Boite
Awarded $13,415.95
Sounds of Migration, a History Through Music
The Kilmore & District Hospital
Awarded $5,755.00
The Kilmore & District Hospital Appraisal of Historical Records Collection
The Parkville Association Inc
Awarded $6,228.00
Parkville Heritage Walking Tours: Oral History Digitisation and App Development
Torquay & District Historical Society
Awarded $1,526.70
History Archives Library
Trafalgar Holden Museum
Awarded $9,522.00
Holden Army Work Boat Restoration
Upper Kiewa Valley Community Association Inc
Awarded $2,000.00
Interpretive Signage for the newly named Hydro Park in Mount Beauty
Victoria University
Awarded $12,066.73
Northland Rebel School Oral History
Walpeup Memorial Hall Inc
Awarded $530.00
Digitisation of Walpeup Memorial Hall Local History Memorabilia collection
Weeroona Private Aboriginal Cemetery Committee of Management
Awarded $7,100.46
The History of the Weeroona Private Aboriginal Cemetery (Weeroona Cemetery)
Wonwondah Hall Volunteer Group
Awarded $490.00
Reproduction of Wonwondah District Football Photos
Woods' Farming & Heritage Museum
Awarded $13,000.00
An environment to protect me from the elements in an gracious way
Woomelang & District Historical Society
Awarded $2,650.00
Preserving our Past
Yarra Plenty Regional Library
Awarded $3,375.00
Whittlesea's Dark Past