21 groups share in latest Trust funding

The Veolia Mulwaree Trust distributed ten grants and 11 donations to local not-for-profit community organisations in its final funding round of 2010. The funding will go toward a wide range of community projects which will benefit groups from across all the council areas covered by the Veolia Mulwaree Trust region, including Goulburn Mulwaree, Oberon, Upper [...]

Friends of the Oberon Library help visually impaired read again

The Friends of the Oberon Library group has purchased five reading navigators thanks to a $6600 grant from the Veolia Mulwaree Trust. The reading navigators, pictured in use on the left, are portable and simple-to-use devices. The Oberon Library can now satisfy the needs, and enhance the quality of life , of community members who would not otherwise have [...]

New Uses for Gunning Showground Booth

“We feel as though we have an area that is safe and ours,” said Gunning PA and I Society President Kelly Dowling, following the successful completion of the Show Society’s project to refurbish the Publican’s Booth at the Gunning Showground. Working together with Upper Lachlan Shire Council, the Show Society has installed a partitian dividing the storage area from [...]

Boro/Mount Fairy Rural Fire Brigade project completed

The Boro/Mount Fairy community celebrated the opening of their newly refurbushed rural fire brigade facility recently. Volunteers from the Brigade have worked hard to complete the major project to provide a training room and concrete apron at the front of the shed, located on Mount Fairy Road near Tarago. Brigade Secretary Terry Quinn said local residents now had a [...]