Our community of volunteers know how to host the most eclectic range of events from major festivals and  major sporting fixtures on Victoria's regional calendar, to meetings and receptions for niche interest groups.

Volunteers also provide essentail services including Wycheproof CFA and the Wycheproof SES.

Wycheproof is an 'education town' and our Community Resource Centre provides a local region focus for education and training worshops for all interests and industry.


Ours is a small community of around 800 people on the Calder Highway at the edge of Victoria's Mallee Region. It is the gateway to the Murray Mallee Sunset Country and midway between Melbourne and Mildura. To break your trip there is a leafy park with excellent amenities, while cafes and pubs offer good value light snacks or counter meals. See visiting Wycheproof for more details.

The town is a service centre to a large district and is home to Buloke Shire administrative offices.  Wycheproof is a 90-mintes drive to regional centres including Bendigo and Horsham, and 60-minutes from Swan Hill and Kerang.

The name of the town comes from the aboriginal word of the Wergaia language – witchi-poorp meaning rushes growing on a hilltop.

First settled: 1867

Population: 815

Industry: broad-acre cereal farming

Hobsons Bay City Council and Buloke Shire Friendship Alliance

An award winning Alliance was established in 2006 between Hobsons Bay City Council and Buloke Shire Council. This is an Urban Rural Friendship Alliance that fosters and promotes links between the two communities. Websites: www.hobsonsbay.vic.au   www.buloke.vic.gov.au  

Rotary Club of Keilor supports Wycheproof

In 2008 The Rotary Club of Keilor adopted Wycheproof under a program where it sought to support a rural area ravaged by drought. This has resulted in a fantastic friendship exchange and members of the Rotary Club have supported projects including the Wycheproof Mens Shed, the Steaming Up Broadway Festival in 2008,  and the Dollar Rent-a-Farmhouse project. While Rotarians have enjoyed the warm Wycheproof hospitality many locals have enjoyed visiting events in Keilor.
In recognition of the assistance given by the club and the sincere gratitude felt by the Wycheproof community, the Rotary Club of Keilor president elect, David Bourke and the club received the Wycheproof Ambassador award at the Australia Day 2010 celebrations in Wycheproof. 

Mt. Wycheproof

Mt Wycheproof rises 43m above the surrounding plain. It is the most northern of a unique group of granite outcrops that includes neighbouring Mt Jeffcott. Mt Wycheproof is known geologically as a ‘metamorphic boss’ or a granite eruption,  regarded as exceptional given the incredibly flat plains surrounding them.  These unique granite outcrops feature a very distinctive botanical composition, quite different to that of the open country.  The lightwood wattle, acacia implexa, is particularly specific to granite bosses. Friends of Mt. Wycheproof oversee projects for the environmental upkeep of the mount. In 1995 Bill Birch named a unique mineral found on the mount Wycheproofite. Click here for details

King of the Mountain

From 1978 to 1988 Wycheproof hosted the King of the Mountain race, a footrace up the world’s smallest registered mountain, Mt. Wycheproof, carrying a bag of wheat. Mt Wycheproof has a one in six gradient and a bag of wheat weighs around 70kg, so it was a major feat to complete the race. The King of the Mountain race was modeled on the work traditionally done by ‘lumpers’ who stacked bags of wheat onto bullock drays and later at railway sidings and stations, prior to the introduction of bulk wheat transport.

Wycheproof has a great tradition for festivals from the King of the Mountain to the 2008 Steaming up Broadway Festival and annual events including the Mt. Wycheproof  Cup, the A&P Society Show and the Annual Wycheproof Tennis Tournament. All events are created,  developed, and supported by teams of hard working volunteers, young and older, many whom are multi-tasking and working on events simultaneously. These volunteers provide the depth and breadth of sporting and cultural opportunities in our community.