SCCU announces winners of $5000 Community Grants

As part of their 50 year celebrations, Southern Cross Credit Union offered local community organisations the opportunity to apply for one of three $5,000 Community Grants. Winners were decided based on community votes and specific judging criteria. CEO Stuart Edwards was overwhelmed by the tremendous response.

“We received 52 applications from community groups and events throughout our region, attracting thousands of votes in branch and online. It was an extremely difficult task to select our three recipients as all applicants undertake extremely important work in our community. “

The recipients of the community grants are Liberation Larder for their Byron Festival Food Waste Project, Community Owned Renewable Energy Mullumbimby (COREM) to install solar panels on the Brunswick Valley Rescue building and Big Scrub Orchestra a dynamic creative arts education program for students at Dunoon and Whian Whian Public Schools.

Byron Youth Theatre and Murwillumbah Cricket Club will also receive $500 each in recognition of their excellent submissions.

Support of the local community is an important function of customer owned institutions like Southern Cross Credit Union explained Mr Edwards.

“As a customer owned financial institution, it is important to us to make meaningful contribution to our local community. The Community Grants program was run in addition to our Community Partnership sponsorship program to say thank you to our community for their support over the past 50 years.”