CHARLES Sturt's Community University Partnership (CUP) Grants target those smaller, but no less important, community projects that often miss out on larger, more complicated funding rounds.
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CUP Grants are about supporting the development of our regional communities - and that means all the wonderful schools, sporting groups, charities and cultural groups that make us a vibrant, liveable and happy region.
This year, we've got $125,000 in grant funding available to help communities grow and flourish in the Charles Sturt footprint across the state.
Small grants of up to $1000 can be awarded and organisations can apply for grants under six categories: arts and culture, education, Indigenous development, health and wellbeing, environmental sustainability, and sport.
CUP Grants round two opened last week and closes on August 9, so community groups are encouraged to get their applications in as soon as possible.
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The Mitchell Early Learning Centre's Kindergym project was awarded $1000 in round one to help fund three visits to the PCYC to complete the Kindergym classes.
"This grant will give our children the chance to develop their gross motor skills in an exciting way. Thank you CSU!" Mitchell Early Learning Centre director Julia Alexander said.
Other successful Bathurst applicants from round one, showing the diversity of projects funded, included the Children's Lego Therapy Program with the Bathurst Early Childhood Intervention group, the Bathurst Uniting Church's Winter Crisis Accommodation project, and a Latin American Film Festival.
Applications can be made via about.csu.edu.au/community/grants, where more information on the various categories is also available.
Explore Menindee fish kills
CHARLES Sturt University's free "Explorations" series of public talks are designed to stimulate thoughtful, meaningful conversations about issues of regional, national and international interest.
They are friendly, social events, great for networking with your community and broadening your mind.
Our next talk, on the controversial Menindee fish kills, will be presented by CSU Associate Professor Lee Baumgartner in Orange on Wednesday evening, July 31.
Many of us in regional NSW were shocked by the fish deaths at Menindee in the lower Darling earlier this year.
In January 2019, the Minister for Agriculture and Water Resources wrote to the prime minister requesting an independent panel be established to assess the series of large-scale fish deaths at Menindee in 2018-19.
The primary work of the panel was to identify causes, evaluate management responses and provide recommendations.
CSU Associate Professor Baumgartner, from the Institute for Land, Water and Society, was a member of the scientific panel.
His public lecture at the Groundstone Café in Orange will focus on the work of the panel, its major findings and recommendations.
Register at www.csu.edu.au/explorations for the free public lecture at Orange.
Watch this space for information on the future Explorations talks in Bathurst and Orange.
