Work starts on Kids Plus Foundation’s new home

CONSTRUCTION is underway at the new home for the Kids Plus Foundation (KPF) in Waurn Ponds.

Corangamite federal member Sarah Henderson and KPF chief executive officer Shaun Cannon ceremonially turned the first sod on the KPF National Centre for Therapy, Research and Training, located in Deakin University’s Waurn Ponds campus, last week.

The $3 million facility will be three times larger than KPF’s existing premises in Myers Street, Geelong and is being built on a site only metres away from Deakin’s School of Medicine.

Designed by Geelong firm Baade Harbour Australia, KPF’s new home will be open to clients in January 2020.

The centre, which Deakin has granted a nocost lease for 20 years, is being funded by $1.47 million from the federal government’s Building Better Regions Fund and a $750,000 grant from the Anthony Costa Foundation.