Middlemarch is set to be enhanced.
Strath Taieri Community Board chairman Barry Williams said the board members agreed to give Middlemarch Promotions $1000 for several community enhancement projects.
Middlemarch Promotions secretary Dawn Coburn said she was ''extremely pleased'' the funds had been granted.
The money would be used to buy planter boxes and small shrubs for the village and to create signs at the several ''quirky'' painted bicycles the group planned to display in the village.
The painted bicycle work Growing Cycle was displayed on a fence at Grocott's Community Garden in Middlemarch.
The money would also be used to replace some brass plaques people used to create rubbings, an art form where the artist took a pastel or pencil to rub on paper put on an uneven surface.
The money would also be used to install more geocaching containers in the village, an activity where a container holding items is hidden in a location for GPS users to find using coordinates posted on the internet.
''You could loosely call it a treasure hunt,'' Mrs Coburn said.
