COVID-19 Grants & Business Support
In 2020/21, Council is providing a business and community support package to target support to those who need it most as impacted by COVID-19.
Council delivered a grants/stimulus program to offer localised, flexible and tailored support to our community through the business recovery and support grants.
COVID-19 Business Diversification Grants Program
Grants provided to businesses that had to significantly change their business delivery model as part of the impact of Coronvirus. The Business Diversification Grants Program will allocate approximately $23,000 in grants through Round 1 and Round 2.
COVID-19 COPACC Hire Assistance Grants Program
The Covid-19 COPACC Hire Assistance Grants Program is a one-off expansion of the grants program to enable local dance, singing and acting schools to access support. Grants up to $2,000 were available from a budget of $12,000.
COVID-19 Small Arts Project Grants Program
Grants provided to enable artists and event organisers to undertake local projects that spread joy and hope in the community. Grants up to $3,000 were available from a budget of $20,000
Congratulations to the successful recipients of the Colac Otway Shire Council’s business recovery and support grants in 2020 – 2021.
COVID-19 Business Diversification Grants Program
| Business |
Project Description |
Amount |
| Apollo Bay Waterfront Motor In |
Website upgrade |
$600 |
| Barongarook Pork |
Refrigerated courier |
$3,000 |
| Cape Otway Lightstation |
Digital upgrade |
$1,360 |
| Colac Indoor Tennis and Sports Centre |
Mobile Rental Laser Tag |
$3,000 |
| Colac Laundry Lounge |
Eftpos readers on all equipment |
$2,838 |
| Ecoshiatsu |
Provide on-line courses |
$2,747 |
| Fernhouse |
Website upgrade |
$1,433 |
| Focus Pty Ltd |
Online international training delivery |
$271 |
| Forrest General Store Pty Ltd |
Otway Distillery website |
$2,250 |
| Glance Twice Studios |
Studio on-line |
$2,344 |
| Hillview Farm 5 Star Boarding Cattery |
Website and social media expansion |
$3,000 |
| Just Lovely |
Essential support for women |
$3,000 |
| Moran and Bamford Electrical Pty Ltd |
Digital Marketing and website upgrade |
$825 |
| Otway Electrical Contracting |
Wall and Floor system |
$2,949 |
| Penny Royal Raspberry Farm |
Website upgrade |
$1,980 |
| Platypi Chocolate |
Dine with your dog |
$3,000 |
| Salon7One |
Website development |
$500 |
| Tarndie |
Woolcraft Workshops on-line |
$3,000 |
| Tim Lucas Photography |
Website development |
$2,250 |
| Wordly Goods |
Website development |
$1,648 |
COVID-19 COPACC Hire Assistance Grants Program
COVID-19 Small Arts Project Grants Program
| Applicant |
Project |
Description |
Amount |
| Barking Spider Visual Theatre |
Object Monologues |
Colac’s landmarks will be chosen by the community to become an ‘object monologue with locals telling the stories and providing the voice overs. |
$3,000 |
| Birregurra Community Arts Group |
The Power of Music |
A mini music festival will be filmed in the Birregurra Mechanics Hall and be available free and online for the community to enjoy, including the Red Violets and also featuring a mural art installation. |
$2,310 |
| Colac Makers Space |
SWEET |
A SWEET Online Youth Art Exhibition will be held to celebrate the art of the children and youth of the Colac Otway, created in ‘lockdown’, then captured in a calendar. |
$2,068 |
| Conservation Ecology Centre |
Protected |
Around 1,000 Origami figures will be created by the Colac Otway Shire community and assembled in an installation that represents the protected species of the Great Otway National Park, then exhibited at the Conservation Ecology Centre. |
$2,997 |
| Forrest & District Neighbourhood House |
Studio Forrest Window Space |
A permanent window display space will be designed by community and created at the Forrest Public Hall to showcase a rotating exhibition of local artists and artworks for community appreciation. |
$2,800 |
| Gellibrand Community House |
Catching Dreams |
Gellibrand residents will create and display hundreds of dreamcatchers all over town to recapture their dreams and spread hope and joy. |
$2,752 |
| Glance Twice Studios |
Giving the Gift of Glass |
Artist Margaret Smith of Glance Twice Studios in Apollo Bay will produce unique small glass art pieces and gift them to vulnerable community members. |
$1,173 |
| WildHoney Performing Arts |
The Chimera and the Wishing Tree |
The Chimera and the Wishing Tree stilt walking creature will be a street theatre performance, live-streamed, spreading a message of transformation and hope as it moves through Colac and recorded for posterity. |
$2,900 |