THE Beulah community has called on Wimmera and Mallee residents to help the town win $10,000.
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The Beulah Business and Information Centre has been short-listed from hundreds of entries in The Local Project competition.
The competition, run by the Bank of Melbourne and News Corp, provides money for community projects.
Ten projects will share in $100,000.
A judging panel selected 50 projects across five categories: education, community, culture, environment and recreation.
Beulah's Let Us Eat Cake project is in the running for the community category.
The proposed project involves upgrading and registering a not-for-profit commercial kitchen to support community volunteers and micro-businesses.
Beulah Business and Information Centre manager Helen Dillon said the kitchen would enable members to prepare and cook products and sell them at the community centre as fundraising projects.
She said she was thrilled the project had made the final cut, but called on the wider community for support.
"The judging panel has kept us in the running but now we need the Wimmera and Mallee communities to vote for us online," she said.
"We could really use the support because we are just a small community up against city projects."
Ms Dillon could visit webapps.bankofmelbourne.com.au/thelocalproject/ to vote in the 'community' section.
Voting closes on October 21.