The Ararat Show Society has received some "pleasing" news in the lead up to the 2021 Ararat Show, with a federal funding boost to provide a much needed upgrade.
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The Ararat Show Society have submitted a successful application for a grant, with $9350.00 to be dished out to upgrade the Ararat Showground's switchboard.
The grant has been approved via the the federal government's Stronger Communties Programme Round Six, which provides the 151 federal electorates with $150,000 to fund small capital projects each round.
Show President and Ararat Rural City Councillor Gwenda Allgood said the committee was excited to get the upgrades in motion.
"We were really desperate to get it," she said.
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"We decided at the last meeting and we have been trying for the last couple of years.
"This is one application where we were finally able to crack it and we are pretty pleased about it.
"We try and work in with the other organisations and so we are very pleased with the outcome."
Mrs Allgood said the switchboard had suffered a series of problems in 2019, with upgrades desperately needed to ensure all of the users of the Showground's facilities would be safe.
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"There are other users of the facility and so while the money is for the Show, it is a shared facility," she said.
"It (the switchboard) connects everything up and with the rides and everything coming we need it up and going."
Work to the switchboard will begin soon with, work to be completed prior to the Ararat Show, which is scheduled for Sunday, October 24.
The old switchboard will be replaced during the works with circuit breakers and safety switches to be installed.
Work is expected to cost $9350.00.
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