Village halls at Mummulgum and Mallanganee and the bowling club at Urbenville will benefit from a portion of State Government funding of $450,000 across the Lismore Electorate.
Mallanganee Memorial Hall will receive $14,850 for big new doors.
Hall secretary Judithe Lovick-andrews has always disliked the roller door at the front of the hall.
The painting of the exterior of Mallanganee Hall was only recently completed.
“We had a heritage consultant come a couple of years ago and give advice,” Judithe said.
“We used heritage colours to repaint the hall.”
The 1912 memorial hall has a soldiers room and the outside was looking pretty shabby until the recent renovations.
The roller door doesn’t fit with the new paint job.
“We had Apex Building in Casino to give us a quote for a timber door,” Judith said.
“The heritage consultant in Grafton gave it the tick of approval.
“It will be happening as soon as builder has time.”
Thirteen organisations share $450,000 in funding under the NSW Government’s 2025 Community Building Partnership Program.
This includes:
Urbenville & District Bowling Club: $20,000 for a kitchen upgrade including replacement of wall sheeting and re-running electrical cables, gas lines and plumbing. Also, new floor coverings.
Mallanganee Public Hall: $14,850 for restoring charm to the heritage hall with the removal of the existing roller door at the hall entry and reinstating it with a pair of traditional timber framed vertical jointed doors.
Mummulgum Public Hall: $11,396 for hall floor restoration including resurfacing and sealing the hall floor to repair water damage.
State MP Janelle Saffin said for those applicants who missed out in this year’s round, take heart that the CBP 2026 round dates will be announced shortly.
“All good projects find their time to shine and perhaps some more ambitious ones can be done in stages,” she said.
Details of the program are here.
The other projects to benefit in this round are:
Dunoon Preschool: $90,000 for Collaborative Corner Project:
Friends of Tenterfield Aerodrome: $70,890 towards improving the aerodrome’s disaster readiness capability.
Tweed Shire Council: $62,206 towards Kunghur Hall building restoration.
Numulgi Hall: $46,150 for lifting up Numulgi Hall and restumping.
Lismore City Bowling and Recreation Club: $31,642 for kitchen refurbishment.
Rock Valley Hall: $27,019 for kitchen upgrade.
Federal School of Arts: $26,100 to paint the exterior of Federal Hall.
Our Plan C, Goonellabah: $20,497 for future-proofing communities using Plan C’s emergency toolkit.
Co-ordination Co-operative: $20,000 for essential roof repairs to the Tuntable Falls Community Hall.
NSW Rural Fire Service Australia on behalf of Murwillumbah Rural Fire Brigade: $9,250 for purchasing lockers to store personal protective clothing and helmets.
This information was provided by the office of Janelle Saffin MP.