Protecting Our Places Grants - Now open!
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Date:
4 Sep 2017 (All day)
The Protecting Our Places Program is a contestable grants program for Aboriginal community groups and organisations, seeking to achieve long-term beneficial outcomes for the NSW environment.
Funded by the NSW Environmental Trust, the program encourages and empowers Aboriginal communities to protect, conserve and restore cultural landscapes and waterways that are of importance to local Aboriginal communities.
Objectives
The objectives of the Protecting Our Places Program are:
- To facilitate the sharing and protection of Cultural knowledge with and between Aboriginal groups, government and public stakeholders, to contribute to the improvement and the management of environmental and cultural resources on country.
- To increase the amount of culturally significant Aboriginal Land protected, restored, enhanced and managed by local Aboriginal groups, land managers and stakeholders and support connection to country.
- The Protecting our Places program is an appropriate, effective and sustainable mechanism to deliver Government policy, priorities and outcomes.
Funding
Grants of up to $65,000 are available over two stages:
- Stage 1: Planning – up to $10,000 (plus $5,000 for capacity building)
- Stage 2: Implementation – up to $50,000
Applying
Guidelines, application form and guide to completing the application form are available at the links below.
Further information is available here: http://www.environment.nsw.gov.au/grants/pop.htm
| Attachment | Size |
|---|---|
 POP 2017 - Guidelines.pdf | 976.03 KB |
| POP 2017 - Application Form.pdf | 628.3 KB |
| POP 2017 - Completing your application.pdf | 933.93 KB |
