Deadline: 15-Mar-23
In 2023, Highways and Byways welcomes applications for funding for projects that support people and communities in addressing social and ecological disadvantage and inequality, particularly in rural, regional and remote Australia.
Enduring drought, bushfires and floods have ravaged parts of the country resulting in loss of life, significant impacts on species and the destruction of vast tracts of land, property and habitat. The Covid19 pandemic has also affected their very way of living, with long periods of isolation and restrictions on movement, education and trade affecting the entire population, especially their most vulnerable communities.
What is the 2023 focus area?
- ‘Healing and Growing Together’.
- They aim to support communities as they attempt to heal and grow in the aftermath of the environmental and social challenges of the past few years.
What type of projects will you support in 2023?
- Environmental/ecological initiatives that:
- Promote environmental rehabilitation and restoration to rectify the impacts of recent fire, flood or drought.
- Support healing the land in holistic ways.
- Encourage connection with the land.
- Foster community relationships through practical projects that improve the local environment.
- Support the intergenerational exchange of knowledge and skills for the sustainable management of land into the future.
- Increase opportunities for people to develop leadership or other practical skills.
- Projects may include, but are not limited to:
- Community partnerships to improve land health and increase local land management knowledge.
- Revegetation initiatives.
- Grasslands restoration.
- Cultural fire management.
- Carbon capture.
- Bolstering soil fertility.
- Sustainability expos.
- Education and training sessions.
- Initiatives that encourage community connections that:
- Reduce isolation and loneliness and promote connectivity in the wake of the Covid19 pandemic and/or recent fires/floods/drought.
- Foster Indigenous identity and cultural connections through sharing knowledge, skills or story.
- Encourage partnerships between individuals, groups and/or organisations.
- Build strong and resilient communities.
- Provide opportunities for program participants to develop leadership or other personal or community-building skills.
- Projects may include, but are not limited to:
- Workshops, events, or expos.
- Programs for vulnerable communities.
- Well-being programs.
- Training programs.
Funding Information
- Grants of up to $4,000 are available.
- Projects are to be completed within 12 months unless otherwise negotiated.
Eligibility Criteria
- Funding is available to community groups or organisations which can demonstrate that they are at minimum an Incorporated Association or similarly constituted entity. Funding is not available to individuals or trusts.
- Applicants need to demonstrate that the project addresses the relief of social or environmental disadvantage or inequality through locally led action.
- Successful applicants will be required to submit a mid year report, final report and evidence of funding acquittal.
- Successful applicants will be notified in writing in May 2023.
For more information, visit Small Grants Program.
