DORSET councillors at their meeting last week endorsed the recommendations of the community grants committee to allocate funds to three community groups.
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The council at its August meeting resolved to allocate $30,000 to a Community Matching Fund grant program.
The Bridport Textile Group, The Bridport Volunteer Fire Brigade and the Scottsdale Bowls Club will receive $3442, $2694 and $400, respectively and provide the same amount themselves.
The textile group's grant will go towards making quilts that will be raffled for charity, the fire brigade's grant was for a mobile defribrillator and the bowls club will use its grant for indoor bowls equipment.
Community and economic development officer Susie Bower told councillors that she received five applications that totalled $19,530.
Applications from Gladstone Future Links and the Scottsdale RSL were unsuccessful.
The Gladstone group sought $982 towards the $1982 cost of erecting a fence and gate around the Gladstone hall.
The RSL Club sought $12,012 of the $24,023 cost of a security system and heat pumps for its proposed museum and the painting of its Huey helicopter.
The Gladstone application will be referred to councillors as a discretionary grant and the RSL's application will be resubmitted.
A second round of grants will be undertaken late this year or early next year.
