A NEW grants scheme offering financial support for veterans and their families has opened in the ACT.
Launched today (August 29), the ACT government’s Veterans Grants Program, offers veterans and their family members grants of up to $10,000 to help them stay connected in their community.
Veterans and Seniors Minister Emma Davidson said recent data reveals that Canberra has the highest number of current and former serving veterans.
“We know from the 2021 Census data that the ACT has the highest number of current and former serving veterans but also that they, and their families, can face unique challenges adapting to civilian life,” said Davidson.
“These grants support the individual needs of our veterans community – to build and foster relationships across the community, develop skills to live well and actively participate.”
Who can be trusted?
In a world of spin and confusion, there’s never been a more important time to support independent journalism in Canberra.
If you trust our work online and want to enforce the power of independent voices, I invite you to make a small contribution.
Every dollar of support is invested back into our journalism to help keep citynews.com.au strong and free.
Thank you,
Ian Meikle, editor
![Canberra’s woodchopping association – the Hall and District Axemen’s Club – is rebranding to Capital Country Woodchopping.
“We didn’t want to be exclusively a Canberra association and we deliberately left any gender-specific wording out in the new name,” says president Cheyanne Girvan, 32.
“We also went a different [way] to other associations under NSW by not including ‘association’ in our name.”
Four years ago the Hall and District Axemen’s club’s membership was 25.
Cheyanne says this name change will give the club the versatility to grow into other areas and on to greater things.
To read on about Cheyanne's story with the woodchoppers, visit our website at citynews.com.au or click the link in our bio!
@@capitalcountrywoodchopping
#woodchopping #woodchoppinggirl #woodchoppingaustralia #axemen #axewomen #woodcutter #canberrastories #storiesthatmatter #citynews #journalism](https://citynews.com.au/wp-content/plugins/instagram-feed/img/placeholder.png)
Leave a Reply