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Projects & Partners

Grow West have developed and fostered many partnerships with various organisations and community groups, over the past 5 years. These partnerships have led to over 300 hectares of revegtation, 200 hectares of farm forestry and numerous workshops and field days.

Grow West's success lies in securing funding and sponsorship and the level of participation by targeted landholders, which can be due to seasonal conditions. To date, Grow West have been successful in obtaining over $2 million of funding and sponsorship over a 5 year period. The project is looking for sponsorship and long term funding that will enable more large-scale revegetation and protection to occur in the Werribee Catchment.

Project Stakeholders

Project Stakeholders are organisations that are represented on the Grow West Implementation Committee and have continued their support of the project through financial and in kind means.

Port Phillip and Westernport Catchment Management Authority
Moorabool Shire Council
Southern Rural Water
Melbourne Water
Landcare Australia
Department of Primary Industries
Serrated Tussock Working Party
Central Victorian Farm Plantations

Sponsors

The following sponsors have made a financial contribution to the Grow West project.

Government

National Heritage Trust
Department of Agriculture, Fisheries & Forestry
Department of Sustainability and Environment
Melbourne 2006 Commonwealth Games
VicRoads

Corporate / Philanthropic

Past sponsors include ABN AMRO.

eTree
Medibank Private
Norman Wettenhall

Supporters

The following project supporters have provided in kind support to the project.

Parks Victoria
Victorian National Parks Association

Local Landcare and Friends Groups, Green Corp, Bacchus Marsh Lions Club, Greening Australia, Ballarat Seed Bank, Melbourne University, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Conservation Volunteers Australia

planting tools
Bob & Judy
volunteers planting