The state government has announced funding for social housing at nine sites across regional Victoria including $2.1 million for six new homes in Daylesford. The local houses will be built as part of the Middleton Field development.
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The Dementia Carers Support Group which meets regularly in Daylesford has been an important and valuable resource for people who are caring for people with dementia. The group meets monthly to share information and strategies and to support one another. Next week is Dementia Action Week with an emphasis on making communities more dementia-friendly.
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Council is conducting an Early Years survey to ensure it understands how parents and caregivers currently access early years services in our Shire. This survey will also help Council to understand any unmet or future needs for Early Years services in our Shire.
Read MoreDear Editor, The Salvation Army is one of the biggest providers of social services in Australia. We are a pragmatic movement, not really into empty gestures or performative virtue signalling. I don’t think in our 140-year...
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Central Highlands Water has been awarded $60,000 in project funding through the Victorian Government’s Waste to Energy Bioenergy Fund. As part of the funding, CHW will explore the benefits of the localised production of bioenergy using forestry wood residue left onsite after a pine plantation is clear felled. The project will complement the organic waste composting facility at Creswick.
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