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Monday, December 17. 2007
Christmas comes early for CERES Community Centre
Christmas has come early for the CERES Centre in East Brunswick thanks to an $800,000 funding boost from the Victorian Government, the Member for Brunswick, Carlo Carli announced today.
Carlo said CERES would receive a Victorian Community Support Grant to progress stage two developments of the CERES Community Environment Park, adding three community buildings, courtyards, landscaped gardens and accessible walkways.
Good quality community facilities are a common feature of happy, healthy and strong communities and the Victorian Government is delighted to be investing in this wonderful project,
The new development will comprise 12 indoor community workshop/meeting spaces for multipurpose use, a commercial kitchen, organic café and outdoor landscaped areas that can be used as a gathering space for concerts and festivals.
Our funding will ensure that CERES continues to play an important role in raising awareness of how we can each make a real difference to the environmental and social issues facing urban areas.
Centre for Education and Research in Environment Strategies (CERES) is a non-profit, community-based organisation situated on a 4.5 hectare site beside Merri Creek in East Brunswick.
It is one of 13 projects to share in $1.8 million in the latest round of Victorian Community Support Grants.
Other funding partners include $4.5 million from private donor, Leonie Van Raay, $500,000 from Moreland City Council, $200,000 from the Ian Potter Foundation, $125,000 from the Gandel Charitable Trust, $160,000 from William Buckland Foundation, and $22,000 from the Jack Brockhoff Foundation.
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