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Esperance Community Fund

The Magellan Community Fund began in 2009 - it is a three-year program designed to support community and not for profit projects within Esperance.

In 2010 a total of $286,108 was committed from the Fund to nine Esperance organisations to undertake a variety of local community projects including $50,000 to build a boat dry dock for the Esperance Volunteer Sea Search and Rescue Group and $50,000 to the Restore Hope Foundation Esperance, for a mobile commercial kitchen to prepare and distribute meals in the community.

In 2009, ten community programs were granted funding.  Project funding ranged from $10,000 used to purchase new equipment for the Esperance Goldfields Surf Lifesaving Club to $50,000 used to build a mobile commercial kitchen for the Restore Hope Foundation Esperance. In total, over $290,000 in funding support was provided to projects in 2009.

The application process is administered by the Shire of Esperance. Applications are assessed and selected by a five person panel comprising three community representatives and a representative from both the Shire and Magellan.

The Magellan Community Fund Committee

• Steve Neal, Immediate Past President of the Esperance Chamber of Commerce and Industry Inc.
• Heather Gee, President of the Esperance Regional Tourism Association
• Pauline Grewar, Principal of Castletown Primary School
• Beverley Stewart, Councillor for the Shire of Esperance
• Dr John Yeates, Vice President of Corporate Social Responsibility for Ivernia Inc.