{"id":8612,"date":"2023-10-01T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-09-30T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dev.build.optimodesign.com.au\/manorlakes\/manor-lakes-community-fund-awards-30000-to-local-community-groups\/"},"modified":"2025-08-28T23:03:00","modified_gmt":"2025-08-28T13:03:00","slug":"manor-lakes-community-fund-awards-30000-to-local-community-groups","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/dev.build.optimodesign.com.au\/manorlakes\/manor-lakes-community-fund-awards-30000-to-local-community-groups\/","title":{"rendered":"Manor Lakes Community Fund awards $30,000 to local community groups"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Twenty local not-for-profit groups from within the Manor Lakes area have been awarded a share of $30,000 at Manor Lakes Community Fund evening, run by the Dennis Family Corporation.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>This year\u2019s event marks 21 years of Community Funds and over $1.2 million distributed across Dennis Family Corporation\u2019s residential estates in Melbourne and Queensland since the concept was introduced in the early 2000s.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Held at Manor Lakes\u2019 Sales Centre, Dennis Family Group Chief Executive Officer, Peter Levinge hosted the event, which has become an annual highlight for the community developer.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/dev.build.optimodesign.com.au\/manorlakes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/23-10-25_VD_DFC-Manor-Lakes_35-web.jpg\" style=\"width: 200px; height: 133px;\" \/>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Dennis Family Corporation has a long history of seeking to help others in less fortunate circumstances,\u201d commented Mr Levinge. \u201cIn keeping with this philosophy of giving, Dennis Family Corporation founder, Bert Dennis, established the first of our residential estate Community around 20 years ago.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur Community Fund is an important way of supporting and giving back to the neighbourhoods we create \u2013 and to have provided more than $1.2 million in grants across our history is something we are very proud of,\u201d Mr Levinge added.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Community groups from within the Manor Lakes area were encouraged to apply in early September, with the application process concluding on 30 September. The successful groups were each awarded a financial grant for their future projects and to aid in the success of the community.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/dev.build.optimodesign.com.au\/manorlakes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/23-10-25_VD_DFC-Manor-Lakes_48-web.jpg\" style=\"width: 200px; height: 133px;\" \/>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Any groups that missed out are encouraged to apply to the 2024 fund.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Congratulations to all the 2023 Manor Lakes Community Fund grant recipients:<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Auskick Manor Lakes<\/p>\n<p>Creating Villages<\/p>\n<p>Flames Basketball Club<\/p>\n<p>Good News Power Basketball Club Inc<\/p>\n<p>Iramoo Basketball Club INC<\/p>\n<p>Iramoo Community Centre<\/p>\n<p>KickFit<\/p>\n<p>LIFE Community (Melbourne) LTD<\/p>\n<p>Melbourne Pacific Cup<\/p>\n<p>Pulse with Purpose<\/p>\n<p>Quantin Binnah Community Centre Inc<\/p>\n<p>Victorian Tamil Association &#8211; Manor Lakes<\/p>\n<p>Werribee Giants Baseball Club Inc.<\/p>\n<p>Western Athletics<\/p>\n<p>Wyndham Bright Young Leaders<\/p>\n<p>Wyndham Little Buddies Toy Library<\/p>\n<p>Wyndham Sports and Community Club<\/p>\n<p>Wyndham Vale Fire Brigade<\/p>\n<p>Wyndham Women&#8217;s Support Group<\/p>\n<p>YMCA Aquatic Education Ltd.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/dev.build.optimodesign.com.au\/manorlakes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/23-10-25_VD_DFC-Manor-Lakes_59-web.jpg\" style=\"width: 200px; height: 133px;\" \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Twenty local not-for-profit groups from within the Manor Lakes area have been awarded a share of $30,000 at Manor Lakes&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6471,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-events-local-area"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/dev.build.optimodesign.com.au\/manorlakes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8612","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/dev.build.optimodesign.com.au\/manorlakes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/dev.build.optimodesign.com.au\/manorlakes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dev.build.optimodesign.com.au\/manorlakes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dev.build.optimodesign.com.au\/manorlakes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8612"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/dev.build.optimodesign.com.au\/manorlakes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8612\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8797,"href":"http:\/\/dev.build.optimodesign.com.au\/manorlakes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8612\/revisions\/8797"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dev.build.optimodesign.com.au\/manorlakes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6471"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/dev.build.optimodesign.com.au\/manorlakes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dev.build.optimodesign.com.au\/manorlakes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dev.build.optimodesign.com.au\/manorlakes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}