The Moonee Valley Foundation awards grants to young adults in the City of Moonee Valley to achieve excellence in education, training, community or other personal endeavours which will ultimately benefit Moonee Valley and the broader community.
Read MoreIt’s such a pleasure meeting the brilliant minds, creative souls and visionary young people who are growing up in Moonee Valley. This year’s call for applicants brought another inspiring crop, who received their awards at a night, hosted by Moonee Valley City Council, at which we also heard from 2013 awardee Samantha Cole and 1999 recipient Adam Basil, now high performance coach at St Kilda Football Club.
At our awards night in August we also heard from 2014 awardee Jessica Yu, whose creative writing skills have been widely recognised during the year, not least of all by the organisers of the Emerging Writers Festival, who invited her to speak at the event’s opening night. As well as being widely published during the year, Jessica also won the 2014 Young Writers Innovation Prize and was listed in the Melbourne Writers Festival’s 30 under 30 list of new talent to watch.
Manny is working to ensure youth and aspiring artists can access the right facilities/equipment to be able to achieve their goals. Many young people find it hard to access facilities and opportunities unless they’re prepared and resourced to travel. They are vulnerable and risk being taken advantage of by unscrupulous operators in the music industry feeding off hopes and dreams.
The Moonee Valley Foundation (‘the Foundation’) awards grants to young adults in the City of Moonee Valley to achieve excellence in education, training, community or other personal endeavours that will ultimately benefit Moonee Valley and the broader community. History The Foundation was formed as Essendon Anniversary Scholarship Trust Fund in 1986.