Heritage

Grants and funding

Your Community Heritage

Overview

Applications to the 2011-2012 Your Community Heritage Program have now closed. No further applications will be accepted.

About the Program

Your Community Heritage is a new approach to supporting and protecting Australia's heritage that will enable local communities around Australia to celebrate their local heritage.

The program recognises that our heritage is not just about 'big' heritage such as places on the World and National Heritage Lists, it is also about the heritage of individual communities, be they in regional Australia or small towns or in dispersed multicultural communities. Your Community Heritage is about broadening our understanding and support of heritage and the organisations, individuals, volunteers and communities, who protect and manage so many of our unique heritage places and stories.

Your Community Heritage will promote the importance of heritage to the community and its role in bringing people together, creating community identity and a sense of pride.

Background

Supplementary funding of up to $8 million over two years has been made available by the Australian Government for Your Community Heritage.

The supplementary funding will be available in 2011-12 and 2012-13. This funding is in addition to existing annual funding for Protecting National Historic Sites (which incorporates Commemorating Eminent Australians) of up to $4.42 million each year.

Sub-programs

The Your Community Heritage Program comprises the following sub-programs to which the public may apply:

The amount of funding to be allocated across each of these sub-programs will be determined by the demand for funding.

To streamline the delivery of heritage funding, program guidelines for Protecting National Historic Sites and Commemorating Eminent Australians have been incorporated into the new Your Community Heritage Program Guidelines.

In 2013-14 the Protecting National Historic Sites Program (which incorporates the Commemorating Eminent Australians Program) will revert to its previous administrative arrangements.

Heritage web portal

In addition to the above mentioned sub-programs of the Your Community Heritage program, funding will be made available to develop a heritage web portal which will facilitate community engagement with heritage online. This sub-program is not open to the public.

Information relating to the bringing heritage online objective will be released on the Department's website when available.

Contact us

For more information, please refer to:

If you still have any questions, please contact the Department.

Email: heritagegrants@environment.gov.au

Phone: (freecall) 1800 653 004

Post:
Your Community Heritage Program
Heritage Grants Section
Department of Sustainability, Environment, Water, Population and Communities
GPO Box 787
CANBERRA ACT 2601

Fax: 02 6274 2095

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