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MEDIA RELEASE 8 April 2022

What’s News

Community Tree Planting Day

Where: Baillie Street Reserve (Evans Bridge) Macquarie Wambuul River
When:10 am, Sunday 10 April

Adults and kids can assist in planting native trees, shrubs and grasses that will provide important habitat for local wildlife, and improve the health and function of this much loved river. There will be a free barbecue lunch afterwards.

No experience is needed and all plants and equipment are provided. To ensure safe hygiene practices we ask that you please bring along your own gardening gloves. The event will go ahead in light rain. For further information and/or to register please contact Bill Josh on 0407 256 791.

Dino-store exhibit

The Australian Fossil and Mineral Museum has a new display featuring three young dinosaurs that you can pat and interact with. The display features a Stegosaurus, Utahraptor and a Monolophosaurus and is staged as a pet shop where you can imagine what it would be like to have a dinosaur as a pet.

Use your valid NSW Parent or Discover vouchers to cover the cost of admission. For more information, visit museumsbathurst.com.au

Musicians in the Park

Bring a rug, order your favourite take away and sit back and relax in Kings Parade for two performances in April.

Who: The Safety of Life at Sea 

When: Friday 8 April - 5.30pm to 8.00pm  

Where: Kings Parade 

Cost: Free 

Who: Pengopuss

When: Friday 22 April - 5.30pm to 8.00pm  

Where: Kings Parade 

Cost: Free 

Cinema in the Park

Bring a rug and grab some takeaway from one of the surrounding businesses in Kings Parade and enjoy a movie under the stars. Musicians will perform in the lead up to the movie.

Film: Ice Age 3 – Dawn of the Dinosaurs

Time: Live music from 5.00pm. Movie to start at 6.00pm

Date: Saturday 9 April

Where: Kings Parade 

Cost: Free 

Chase the Rainbow

Chase the Rainbow is a free family friendly run/walk at Morse Park on Sunday, 10 April from 9:30am - 1.00pm to celebrate Youth Week. The event is less about running speed and more about having fun. Participants are doused in different colours while passing colour stations throughout the designated course.

There will be a Lions Club sausage sizzle, food and coffee vans, and live music.

To register or for more information visit www.bathurst.nsw.gov.au

Grant Writing Workshops

Regional Development Australia and Council are conducting two grant writing workshops on Tuesday, 17 May to assist community groups and businesses apply for the many grants offered by all levels of Government. Anyone can attend either workshop however they will be structured to meet the requirements of the targeted audience.

Community Groups

Time: 3.00pm to 4.30pm

Date: Tuesday, 17 May

Where: Panorama Room, Bathurst Panthers,

Cost: Free

Business Groups

Time: 6.00pm to 7.00pm

Date: Tuesday, 17 May

Where: Panorama Room, Bathurst Panthers,

Cost: Free

To register please email business@bathurst.nsw.gov.au

Community Strategic Plan

The Bathurst Regional Community Strategic Plan, Our Region Our Future, is the community’s plan for the future of the region. It captures the ideas, priorities, and aspirations of the community.

Help us make sure the Bathurst region is heading in the right direction by being part of the conversation. The draft plan is on exhibition from 28 March until 29 April.

Visit the YourSay Bathurst website for more information.

Information session

A public information sessions are scheduled during the exhibition period to be held:

The information sessions will be held at BMEC. Please register your attendance at the YourSay Bathurst website.

Autumn Colours

The Autumn Colours program will incorporate the Bathurst Heritage Trades Trail and Heritage Week culminating with Proclamation Day.

The Bathurst Heritage Trades Trail is on 9-10 April with over 100 artisans exhibiting at the Bathurst Showground and Agricultural Research Station with a series of workshops and demonstrations.

The Heritage Week activities have been expanded with tours and events scheduled from Saturday 30 April including tours of the TAFE building, Uniting Church, St Stephen’s and Keppel Street and concluding with Proclamation Day on Sunday 8 May.

Tickets for all tours and for the Heritage Trades Trail can be booked at bathurstregion.com.au.

Have Your Say

Tafe Precinct EOI

Council has extended the deadline for Expressions of Interest (EOI) for the Redevelopment of the former TAFE Precinct to 3 May. This extension is in consideration of Covid disruptions experienced in the EOI timeframe to date and is to ensure high-quality proposals are received.

To provide feedback visit YourSay Bathurst.

ClubGRANTS Scheme

Council invites local community organisations to apply for funding from the 2022 ClubGRANTS Scheme. Information on ClubGRANTS funding guidelines and application forms are available on Council’s website: www.bathurst.nsw. gov.au or the ClubsNSW website www.clubsnsw.com.au, or contact Council on 6333 6523. Applications close at 4pm on Friday 22 April.

Heritage Grants

Council is now inviting applications for small grants to assist local property owners and community groups to restore, repair, promote and interpret the region’s heritage.

• The Bathurst Region Local Heritage Fund provides small grants for the repair and maintenance of older buildings in the region. The program is supported by the NSW Heritage Branch of the Office of Environment and Heritage.
  
  
• The Bathurst CBD Main Street Improvement Fund provides small grants to assist property owners and tenants to activate, improve, repair and maintain buildings within the central business district.
  
  
• The Bathurst Region Interpretation Fund provides small grants for the preparation of Conservation Management

Plans, historic publications and interpretation projects to promote and interpret the region’s history.

Applications for funding must be made on the application form which is available on the YourSay Bathurst website.

For more information or assistance, contact the Strategic Planning Section, on 6333 6211.

JP Services

The community JP Desk in the Bathurst City Centre is open to assist clients face to face who need JP services.

The service is available at Bathurst City Centre on Tuesday afternoon (3.30pm to 6pm) Thursday evenings (5pm to 7pm) and Saturday mornings (9am to 12 noon).

For more information email bathurst@nswja.org.au

@ the library

Dr Stephen Gapps will be visiting the library on Friday 29 April at 6.00pm to discuss his book

‘Gudyarra: The First Wiradyuri War of Resistance’. Copies of the book will be available for purchase on the day. Bookings are essential- call 6333 6281.

ENDS
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