C.16 Community Grants/Assistance/Sponsorship

1

Regional Development Australia ACT

Improve the coordination and delivery of regional development initiatives including the development of a regional strategic plan, provision of advice on regional needs, consultation with regional stakeholders and community engagement for the period 1 July 2012 to 30 June 2013.

An annual report on the outcomes is due from recipient on 30 August 2013

$153,636

2

GovHack

A local community-based event for technology and Open Government data enthusiasts, creating apps, visualisations and data mash-ups over the period  31 May to 2 June 2013.

Provided sponsorship for local event costs and prize money for five categories, with prizes relating to Canberra-specific apps or development teams.

$15,000

1

Unions ACT

Ongoing funding for a work health and safety liaison and education officer by way of a service purchase payment. 

To improve access to work health and safety information, education and advice and to encourage the understanding of, and compliance with, work health and safety duties.

$115,000

1

Children's Cancer Institute of Australia

Donation in memory of Olivia Lambert.

Donation to fundraising.

$10,000

2

National Heart Foundation

2012 Heart Foundation Doorknock Appeal.

Donation to Appeal.

$3,000

3

Ben Donohoe Run and Walk for Fun

2012 Ben Donohoe Run and Walk for fun.

Donation to fundraising.

$3,000

4

Toni Medcalf Scholarship Fund

Donation in memory of Toni Medcalf.

Donation to fundraising.

$10,000

5

Multiple Sclerosis (MS) Australia

MS Mowdown - 13 May and 29 May 2013 to promote awareness about the challenge of living with MS and to raise funds to help find a cure for MS.

Donation provided.

$500

6

Australian Red Cross

2013 Red Cross Calling Campaign.

Donation to fundraising.

$5,000

7

The Salvation Army

Salvation Army Red Shield Appeal.

Donation to Appeal.

$10,000

8

Legacy Club of Canberra

2013 Legacy ANZAC Concert.

Donation for concert.

$3,000

9

Canberra Mothercraft Society Inc

Donation.

Donation provided.

$10,000

1

Barbara Van Der Linden – Faces of Canberra

Twenty-five portraits will be painted over three years of the people of Canberra who make this city a unique and interesting place to live.

Community engagement and support for an enhanced Centenary of Canberra Program.

$4,340

2

National Trust (ACT) – Centenary of Canberra Rally

The Centenary of Canberra Rally will be a large scale motoring event of historic and modern alternative energy vehicles driving from Jervis Bay to Canberra.

Community engagement and support for an enhanced Centenary of Canberra Program, linked to the October 2013 SPIN event.

$40,909

3

Tuggeranong Community Arts – Lakeside

A family fun weekend with temporary sculptures made from recycled materials alongside Lake Tuggeranong with workshops for children, artists' fora, artists' talks and a site specific work for the gallery.

Community engagement and support for an enhanced Centenary of Canberra Program.

$10,000

4

Royal National Capital Agricultural Society – Royal Canberra Show

The 2013 Canberra Show showcased the development of agricultural practice over the last 100 years as well as craft, art and entertainment from 'side-show alley' throughout the decades.

Community engagement and support for an enhanced Centenary of Canberra Program linked to Canberra's rural history.

$100,000

5

Cake Decorators Association of the ACT – Open Day

Open day for the public and cake decorators from around Australia included demonstrations of 'sugar art' celebrating Canberra's centenary.

Community engagement and support for an enhanced Centenary of Canberra Program.

$1,000

6

National Foundation for Australian Women – From Lady Denham to Katy Gallagher

The project aims to document and publicise the contribution women and women's organisations have made to Canberra through the development of a permanent online exhibition on the Australian Women's Register that can be added to over time.

Community engagement and support for an enhanced Centenary of Canberra Program. 

$35,000

7

Kulture Break – Dance Nation

The Dance Nation project is about celebrating our city's rich multicultural diversity and heritage through dance. It will feature two performances and will attract approximately 1,000 performers.

Community engagement and support for an enhanced Centenary of Canberra Program involving a number of Canberra schools.

$20,000

8

Morris Register of NSW – Morris 100 Canberra

The event has two components: a public display of classic cars with a tour of Canberra and two 'Battle Of The Sites' tours to Orange and Dalgety.

Community engagement and support for an enhanced Centenary of Canberra Program linking to the surrounding region.

$7,400

9

The Street Theatre – Capital Jazz Project

Capital Jazz Project is a new music event for the ACT, celebrating all things jazz within a nine-day festival format that will present a mix of international, national and ACT-based artists with participatory activities for artists and audiences.

Community engagement and support for an enhanced Centenary of Canberra Program.

$45,000

10

Canberra College of Piping and Drumming – Canberra 2013 Highland Gathering

A traditional Scottish Highland Gathering involving pipe bands, Highland and Irish dancing, folk bands, Scottish and other stalls, clan society tents, Scottish heavy events, static displays and a multitude of children's events.

Community engagement and support for an enhanced Centenary of Canberra Program.

$25,000

11

Alliance Francaise – Viva la France in Canberra

A day of free activities involving French art, culture, music, French games, competitions, displays, children's activities and gastronomy that will finish with a Masquerade Ball.

Community engagement and support for an enhanced Centenary of Canberra Program.

$10,000

12

Capital Football – Kanga Cup

This project will invite a youth football team from Sister cities Beijing and Nara and Friendship city Dili at the 2013 Kanga Cup. The Kanga Cup is the largest international youth football tournament in the Southern Hemisphere.

Community engagement and support for an enhanced Centenary of Canberra Program.

 $20,508

13

ANU Research School of Humanities and the Arts – Centenary of Canberra Community Tapestry

This project involves the nation in creating a tapestry to celebrate its capital through a major tapestry made by members of the community in Canberra and small tapestries woven by individuals or groups from around Australia and the world.

Community engagement and support for an enhanced Centenary of Canberra Program linking to the nation.

$67,986

14

Mirramu Creative Arts – The Four Elements Arts Festival

A cross arts festival involving artists-in-residence, a workshop program, a regional schools dance program and culminating in a public event at Mirramu Creative Arts Centre on Lake George.

Community engagement and support for an enhanced Centenary of Canberra Program.

$25,000

15

Strathnairn Arts Association – Terrain: Mapping Strathnairn

Terrain is a multi-layered event of land art installations and will include a program of activities for community participation to extend the artist-in-residence theme of 'exploring the environment'.

Community engagement and support for an enhanced Centenary of Canberra Program.

$15,000

16

PhotoAccess – 100 Views of Canberra

100 Views of Canberra will seek contemporary images by local photographers to represent the National Capital on the eve of its centenary for an exhibition and book.

Community engagement and support for an enhanced Centenary of Canberra Program.

$30,000

17

See-change – Imagining a Sustainable Canberra in 2020

This project seeks to engage up to 60,000 students and school communities across the ACT to think positively and creatively about Canberra's next century as we address the social, environmental and economic challenges that now confront the world.

Community engagement and support for an enhanced Centenary of Canberra Program.

$30,000

18

Greatvenue – Enable Canberra

Enable Canberra is a social marketing campaign designed to provide information regarding venue accessibility to people with special needs seeking to attend the Centenary of Canberra activities to be held during 2013.

Community engagement and support for an enhanced Centenary of Canberra Program to support people with disabilities.

$43,973

19

BMA Magazine – Canberra at Street Level

A free, hands-on exhibition which will include community vox-pops where people can share their memories of the ACT's music, arts, and entertainment culture.

Community engagement and support for an enhanced Centenary of Canberra Program.

$7,000

20

Boundless Canberra – National Children's Playground

Funding for the design, community consultation and fundraising strategy for the National Children's Playground - an all abilities playground where children, young people and adults can play, socialise, be challenged and have lots of fun.

Community engagement and support for an enhanced Centenary of Canberra Program.

$50,000

21

Special Olympics ACT – Canberra Centenary Special Olympics National Swim Meet

A three-day swim event for children and adults with an intellectual disability, with participation by all Australian states and territories.

Community engagement and support for an enhanced Centenary of Canberra Program.

$30,000

22

ACT Showjumping Club – Centennial Cup

An elite competition of Australia's best showjumpers as part of the ACT Showjumping Cup to showcase the redeveloped Equestrian Park and Canberra as a major equine facility to competitors and spectators.

Community engagement and support for an enhanced Centenary of Canberra Program.

$3,000

23

Floral Art Guild of the ACT – Centenary of Floral Art in Canberra

An exhibition based upon the changes in flower arranging/floral art between 1913 and 2013 will be staged at the Canberra Centre.

Community engagement and support for an enhanced Centenary of Canberra Program.

$2,500

24

ACT Veteran's Athletic Club – Australian Masters Athletics National Championships 2013

The Australian Master's Athletics National Track and Field Championships is the premier masters-level athletics competition in Australia and will be brought to Canberra in 2013.

Community engagement and support for an enhanced Centenary of Canberra Program.

$20,000

25

Belconnen Arts Centre – WIND AIR WATER, Centenary Kite Festival on Lake Ginninderra

A celebration of World Environment Day featuring the creation of a series of family and community kites including large Centenary kites to be flown on the foreshore of Lake Ginninderra with accompanying music, local food and refreshments.

Community engagement and support for an enhanced Centenary of Canberra Program.

$27,148

26

Volunteering ACT – Volunteering – a CAPITAL Experience

Varied public events leading to major volunteering EXPO on International Volunteer Day, 5 December 2013, highlighting 100 years of volunteering in Canberra

Community engagement and support for an enhanced Centenary of Canberra Program.

$14,578

27

The Cashews – Local Gold

A series of ten Local Gold 'guerrilla gigs' – gigs in public spaces not typically used for musical performance, where audiences receive only one hour's notice on the specific location – by local band The Cashews and special guests.

Community engagement and support for an enhanced Centenary of Canberra Program.

$9,955

28

Walter Burley Griffin Society – Marion Mahoney Griffin Annual Lectures

The fourth and fifth annual Marion Mahoney Griffin Lectures in July/August 2012 and 2013.  The 2013 Lecture will occur within the 'Big Issues, Big Talk' Centenary project.

Community engagement and support for an enhanced Centenary of Canberra Program.

$3,000

29

Pan-Hellenic Games Pty Ltd – 5th Oceania Pan-Hellenic Games Canberra 2013

The Oceania Pan-Hellenic Games, a mini Olympic Games, brings together youth of Hellenic background from across Australia and promotes the Greek history and culture to the community.

Community engagement and support for an enhanced Centenary of Canberra Program.

$15,000

30

Canberra Bonsai Society – AABC 2013 National Convention Public Exhibition

A public exhibition of bonsai to coincide with the official opening of the National Bonsai and Penjing Collection of Australia within the National Arboretum Canberra.

Community engagement and support for an enhanced Centenary of Canberra Program.

$3,000

31

Rowing ACT – 2013 Rowing Australian Masters Regatta

Lake Burley Griffin's first sporting event was the National Club Rowing Regatta in 1964 and the National Regatta had not returned to the ACT until the Centenary of Canberra Masters Championships in April 2013.

Community engagement and support for an enhanced Centenary of Canberra Program.

$15,000

32

Burley Griffin Canoe Club

The Centenary of Canberra 24-Hour Relay Challenge will involve paddlers forming teams and paddling in a relay format non-stop for 24 hours.  The aim is to raise money for a nominated charity.

Community engagement and support for an enhanced Centenary of Canberra Program.

$1,400

33

ACT-Monaro District Golf Association – ACT Centenary Masters Golf Tournament

The ACT Centenary Masters Golf Tournament is open to all male and female golfers over the age of 35 who have an official golf handicap.

Community engagement and support for an enhanced Centenary of Canberra Program.

$1,500

34

ACTSPORT – Centenary of Canberra National Women's Sporting Congress

The congress will involve an examination of the unique success of women's sport in Canberra and how to transfer aspects of that success to other cities.

Community engagement and support for an enhanced Centenary of Canberra Program.

$20,000

35

Little Athletics ACT – Australian Little Athletics Championships

Little Athletics ACT will host the annual athletics championship event with teams of leading little athletes from all states.

Community engagement and support for an enhanced Centenary of Canberra Program.

$10,000

36

Judo Federation of Australia (ACT) – Centenary of Canberra 2013 International Open Judo Championships

The Championships will be the first major judo event in Australia in 2013 and is expected to attract a large number of local, interstate and international participants to Canberra.

Community engagement and support for an enhanced Centenary of Canberra Program.

$2,000

37

ACT Equestrian Association – Centenary Ride

The Centenary Ride will be a single day event, traversing Canberra on the Bicentennial National Trail from Hall to Kambah Pony Club via the Equestrian Park in Curtin.

Community engagement and support for an enhanced Centenary of Canberra Program.

$2,000

38

Bowls ACT – Bowls Centenary Celebration

The Centenary Celebration is a participatory lawn bowls event to be held at 10 clubs throughout Canberra and Queanbeyan, including Canberra's first bowling club. Invited guests and players will wear period costumes.

Community engagement and support for an enhanced Centenary of Canberra Program.

$2,516

39

Orienteering ACT – Capital O

Targeting orienteers and tourists the concept is to produce a map with a series of numbered sites and lettered photographs of obscure features at key cultural and national sites within the Parliamentary Triangle. The activity is for orienteers and tourists to visit each of the photographed sites.

Community engagement and support for an enhanced Centenary of Canberra Program.

$5,000

40

History Teachers' Association of the ACT – Vision Splendid:  History Teachers' Association of Australia Annual Conference Canberra 2013

The Conference will explore the themes and resources of the national institutions, highlighting the idea of the National Capital, its role and importance to pass on to students around Australia.

Community engagement and support for an enhanced Centenary of Canberra Program.

$10,000

41

Fred Smith and the Musicians – Peace in the Pacific

A series of concerts celebrating the involvement of Canberrans in peace monitoring operations in the Pacific, to coincide with the 10th anniversary of Regional Assistance Mission to Solomon Islands and the completion of the Bougainville Peace Monitoring Group.

Community engagement and support for an enhanced Centenary of Canberra Program.

$8,470

42

Squash ACT – Festival of Squash

The first squash court in Australia was constructed in 1913 at the Melbourne Club in Victoria.  This festival celebrates the centenary of squash in Australia and will involve all levels of competition.

Community engagement and support for an enhanced Centenary of Canberra Program.

$15,114

43

Canberra Model Shipwrights Society – Expo 2013

The emphasis of the Canberra Model Shipwrights' Expo 2013 will be on vessels that helped to shape the nation and transport the early Dutch, French and English explorers; vessels such as Cook's Endeavour and the first fleet.

Community engagement and support for an enhanced Centenary of Canberra Program.

$4,850

44

Scope Mount Stromlo – Past Present Future

2013 is the 10 year anniversary of the 2003 bushfires that devastated parts of Canberra, including Mount Stromlo, on 18 January 2003. The Past, Present, Future exhibition will seek artefacts and works from the Canberra community to recognise and commemorate this anniversary.

Community engagement and support for an enhanced Centenary of Canberra Program.

$17,000

45

Sailability ACT – 2013 Asia Pacific and Australian Championships

This international and Australian championship race series involves competition between sailors both able-bodied and with a disability.

Community engagement and support for an enhanced Centenary of Canberra Program.

$7,273

1

Australian Ballet

25th Anniversary Parliament House Australian Ballet Commission - Performance series funded through Australian Government sponsorship.  The Project was a new work for The Australian Ballet, in particular, the choreography and design - in collaboration with Aldo Giurgola, the architect of Parliament House. 

Acknowledgement of the Centenary of Canberra, and ACT and Australian Governments.  The commission premiered in Canberra in May 2013.

$45,000

2

Australian Rugby Union Ltd

Brumbies v British and Irish Lions match was held on 18 June 2013 at Canberra Stadium.

The match featured strong Centenary of Canberra branding and logo placement.  A crowd of 21,655 spectators watched the match at Canberra Stadium.

$25,000

3

Capital Football

Australian Matildas and New Zealand game was held on 16 June 2013 in Canberra.

The Matildas and New Zealand played for the Centenary Cup, which was presented by the ACT Chief Minister.  The game also featured Centenary of Canberra signage, advertising and logo placement on marketing materials.

$4,600

4

Earlybird Marketing and Events

Canberra Raiders Centenary of Canberra match against the Brisbane Broncos was held on 10 June 2013 at the Canberra Stadium. 

The match featured strong Centenary of Canberra branding and logo placement.  A crowd of 10,419 spectators watched the match at Canberra Stadium.

$20,000

5

Golf Australia

ISPS Handa Australian Women's Golf Open - hosted for the first time in Canberra.  The Centenary of Canberra featured as 2013 Presenting Partner.  The tournament was held 14-17 February 2013.

Golf Australia's post-event report stated that the 2013 championship saw the strongest players in the tournament's history.  Excellent media coverage was received across all media outlets, with particular interest coming from USA and NZ.  Over 200 live broadcast hours were shown across 82 territories globally.  Domestic ratings on ABC TV attracted a slight increase on the previous year.  Media coverage included images of Canberra and promotion of the Centenary of Canberra through branding and messaging. A total of 27,800 spectators (1,200 international visitors) were present at the event.

$170,455

6

National Rural Women's Coalition

National Rural Women's Conference Dinner was held in Canberra on 19 February 2013.

Centenary of Canberra signage, advertising and logo placement appeared across the event.  The Creative Director, Ms Robyn Archer AO, facilitated a panel of high-profile guests.  The Governor-General, the Honourable Quentin Bryce AC CVO; Ms Maggie Beer; and Ms Janet Jeff attended the event.

$35,000

7

Sports Hydrant

The Centenary of Canberra Sportswomen's Conference and Ball: A celebration of Australian women in sport. 

The ball was attended by 280 people on 27 February 2013 at the Great Hall, Australian Parliament House.  Olympian, Dawn Fraser was named Sportsperson of the Centenary.  The event coincided with the Sporting Women's Congress, which was supported through the Community Centenary Initiatives Fund.

$35,000

8

Walkley Foundation

Walkley Awards for Excellence in Journalism and Conference 2012. 

The Walkley Foundation is the peak professional body representing Australian journalists; the Awards were last held in Canberra in 1984.

Acknowledgement of the Centenary of Canberra and ACT Government.  The Foundation's gala function, the Walkley Awards for Excellence in Journalism, is a high profile event that recognises the very best in Australian journalism.  The Awards were televised nationally from Canberra on SBS, and received significant national and international publicity.

$80,000

9

Zoo Communications

Fashfest - a four-night event.

Acknowledgement of the Centenary of Canberra and ACT Government.  All four nights were sold out.  Support for a growing local, creative industry to showcase its talents.

$18,000