NSW Heritage Grants - Aboriginal Heritage Projects
The Heritage Branch (NSW) is providing grants up to $75,000 are available for Aboriginal heritage projects. Dollar for dollar grants are available to local government for Aboriginal heritage projects. The NSW Heritage Grants are to provide funding for projects that conserve, promote and increase understanding of Aboriginal heritage in NSW.To be eligible, projects must:
- Provide or assist in the interpretation of culturally significant Aboriginal places
- Record or document significant Aboriginal community events, including contemporary community events
- Focus on mission housing and reserves
- Focus on grave sites and cemeteries conservation and restoration
- Focus on travelling stock routes and trading routes
- Focus on industries including pastoralism, fishing and forestry
- Shared history projects and social themes including showgrounds, race courses, world wars etc
- Contribute to Aboriginal tourism
- Encourage communities to record oral histories and collections to increase understanding between
- generations and communities
- Research of a place, an area or event/s
- Provide on-ground site interpretation for socially significant places/sites such as walkways, signs, trails,
- mapping of tracks or places
- Educate communities on their cultural heritage through media such as brochures, DVDs and publications
- Undertake physical conservation works arising from site planning and history projects.
Priority will be given to projects that:
- Assist Aboriginal heritage items listed on the State Heritage Register
- Assist and lead to Aboriginal heritage nominations and listing on the State Heritage Register
- Are oral history projects: traditional or contemporary
- Are physical site interpretation projects for socially significant places/sites such as walkways, signs, trails,
- mapping of tracks or places
- Support or target young people (30 years or under)
Who can apply:
- Aboriginal organisation or community group
- Local councils or shire, other organisations or consultants working in partnership with an Aboriginal applicant
- Individuals that have the support of the local Aboriginal community
- However, you CAN NOT apply for funding if you are a state or local government agency undertaking work as part of your statutory responsibilities (but you may be involved as a project partner to a community organisation, individual or business)
- You must discuss your project with the Heritage Office.
There is no deadline for these applications.
Contact the Senior Aboriginal Heritage Officer - Tanya.Koeneman@planning.nsw.gov.au or phone 02 9873 8534.
For further information about the grant, go to http://www.environment.nsw.gov.au/Heritage/funding/aboriginalproj.htm or telephone: (02) 9873 8577
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