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Grant to fund finance smarts in Bre shire

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River McCrossen

15 November 2024, 6:40 AM

Grant to fund finance smarts in Bre shireA Kids Get Money financial workshop at a school. IMAGE: Kids Get Money and Women in North East Network

A First Nations arts company has received $15,000 for a pilot camp aimed at boosting financial literacy for Indigenous communities in the Brewarrina shire.

 

The two-day camp will focus on tweens and under 18s in Brewarrina, Goodooga and Weilmoringle, although is open to all ages.

 

Sydney-based Mooghalin Performing Arts, which has an office in Brewarrina's Yarruu Hub, received the grant on behalf of educator Kids Get Money as one of 22 groups in Australia under ANZ's yearly Seeds of Renewal Program.

 


The grant recipients were announced on Wednesday 13 October.

 

"In the arts - and this is why we've supported this project - if you don't have a good budget and you're not across it, then you're going to fail miserably and come out in a deficit," Mooghalin co-founder Lily Shearer said.

 

"Unfortunately in Australia, for some of our people, financial literacy is still very minimum. We're living day to day, or we're living week to week."


Mooghalin Performing Arts co-founder Lily Shearer. IMAGE: supplied

 

Ms Shearer could not confirm dates and locations for camps, or how many there may be.

 

She said educators will teach budgeting and numerary and include financial games.

 

The $15,000 will go towards reimbursing educators, stationary and learning equipment.


 

The Coonamble Local Aboriginal Land Council also received $12,000 for its Kinship Clean project, which involves volunteer clean-up events.

 

The Seeds of Renewal Program has been running for 22 years and this year awarded $250,000 in grants up to $15,000, with one of the aims being to increase financial wellbeing in rural and regional communities.

 

ANZ awards the money with the Foundation for Rural & Regional Renewal (FRRR).

 

“Through partnerships, such as our longstanding association with ANZ, we can support and fund these groups to lead local initiatives and continue to strive for, and celebrate, the liveability, sustainability and vibrancy of Australia's remote, rural and regional communities,” FRRR CEO Ms Egleton said.