Ballarat's Ganesh Chaturthi among dozens of cultural festivals backed in latest Vic funding round

Vic Govt funds $190k of Indian community events

Reading Time: 3 minutes  Twenty-one Indian community organisations will receive funding to host multicultural festivals and events across Victoria from 1 July to 30 September 2025. This amounts to nearly 19% of the total grants and $190,206 of the total funding pool. The latest round of The Multicultural Festivals and Events (MFE) Program and the Regional Multicultural Festivals and Events Fund has seen 111 total organisations receive grants of …

Ballarat's Ganesh Chaturthi among dozens of cultural festivals backed in latest Vic funding round

Victoria’s colourful festival calendar is set to expand, with over $780,000 in new funding directed toward multicultural events across the state. The Ballarat Hindu Temple and Cultural Centre is among the grant recipients, receiving $30,000 to host a three-day Ganesh Chaturthi celebration in 2025. The annual festival honours the birth of Ganesh, the Hindu deity known for wisdom and new beginnings, and is expected to draw community members and vi…