The program provides funding to community groups and organisations to encourage and assist them in making a positive, ongoing contribution to the community's wellbeing, cultural life and resilience.

Premer and District Lions Club will receive $4,708 to resurface the cricket pitch at Clyde Purkiss Oval - Premer Park.

Premer's Jackie Whillock said the pitch was used in a seven-aside twilight cricket competition, where six members of the team bowls two overs each and there is plenty of power hitting.

The competition has been going for more than 30 years, Mrs Whillock said.

"We have two teams in Premer, two from Spring Ridge and one team each from Blackville, Bundella, Tambar Springs, Mullaley and Purlewaugh.

"There are lots of young farmers and young workers back in the district and they really enjoy the chance to have a social outing. It is really important they get a good social event to get them off the farm and not thinking about work for a little time.

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"Quite often they turn up to play in shorts and work boots, but they have a great time," she said.

Also to get a helping hand, Sunflowers on the Plains will receive a grant of $500 to assist with its annual sunflower growing competition.

The competition culminates in a festival of celebration on Sunday, January 23 with a family day at the Quirindi Rural Heritage Village. This includes the production of a Sunflower Trail map, with the large rural properties, residential gardens, cafes and attractions being listed.

The mass flowering of large acreage crops and of garden-grown plantings is generating enormous interest.

More than 6,440 emails have been sent to a database of people who have expressed interest in knowing more about the flowering of the Sunflowers on the Plains.

Meanwhile, Quirindi and District Historical Society's museum will receive $1,600, which will be invested in new signage for the historical cottage on George Street.

Assistant archivist at the museum Anne Scott said the new signage would not only freshen up the look of the museum but pay tribute to "the enormous contribution of one of the Society's most important members, the late Dorothy Durrant AM".

Ms Scott said the Society's museum was a vast store of historical records which Mrs Durrant had collected and archived. "The new signage will help us to freshen up the museum, pay tribute to Dorothy Durrant's work and show Quirindi that they have something to be proud of," she said.

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