The competition may have happened a year ago, but for the successful applicants, the allocation of the 2022 Werribee Mazda Dance Stars on the Floor Small Grants Program will have been well worth the wait.
After an extended delay, small grants worth $5000 each were last week awarded by the Mental Health Foundation Australia to 10 Wyndham organisations.
The Werribee Football Club, Twentieth Man Fund, Corazon Centre and Headspace Werribee were among the successful applicants who will use the financial support for innovative projects and initiatives to promote mental health and prevention of youth suicide.
The funding was raised during the Dance Stars on the Floor competition which took place in August last year.
The delay between the 2022 competition and the grants being allocated was so long, that the 2023 version was held and fundraising distributed in the meantime.
However, event coordinator and Wyndham councillor, Heather Marcus, was still delighted with the eventual outcome.
“It was really fantastic,” Cr Marcus said.
“I would like to thank the dance stars committee, all of our sponsors, mental health foundation, but especially the dance stars and our community for raising this magnificent sum of $50,000 distributed to the 10 successful applicants.”
Cr Marcus then declared: “the dance stars will be back in early 2024.”
