GRANTS TO HELP OUR COMMUNITY THRIVE

THE Give Where You Live Foundation will provide more than $510,000 in grants to support the community via the 2022 Survive and Thrive annual grants program.

A total of 22 organisations from the G21 region will receive grants up to

$40,000 to support people facing life-inhibiting crisis.

Somebody’s Daughter Theatre Company will receive $20,000 to help develop a new short film addressing the issue of consent.

Based on the song No Means No from the new Nobody’s Fool Theatre play When the Light Went Walking, it will feature voices of Geelong young people.

Give Where You Live Foundation chief executive Bill Mithen said the Survive and Thrive grants looked at promoting food security and supporting people experiencing homelessness.

The grants also focus on building resilience and community connection as well as prevention and early intervention efforts related to family violence, sexual assault, addiction, mental health and family breakdown.

Somebody’s Daughter Theatre performers Kiara Smith (left) and Hayley Wallace with the TAC’s Sagar Sheth and Give Where you Live’s Bill Mithen. Picture: Alison Wynd