Deadline: 8-Apr-22
The NSW Environmental Trust’s annual Protecting Our Places (POP) grants are now open for aboriginal groups or corporations in New South Wales.
The Protecting Our Places Grants Program is a contestable grants program for NSW Aboriginal community organisations and groups, seeking to achieve long-term beneficial outcomes for the NSW environment.
The program provides opportunities for Aboriginal communities to address local environmental and cultural priorities, as well as support the development of their project management skills and encouraging new collaborations and positive relationships with other organisations, government and community stakeholders.
Objectives
The program’s outcomes are achieved through the following objectives:
- To facilitate the sharing and protection of cultural knowledge with and between Aboriginal groups, government and public stakeholders and to enable Aboriginal people
- 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 Information
- A total of $500,000 is available for the 2022 round of the program.
- Grants of up to $80,000 may be awarded per project, divided into 2 stages, Stage 1–Planning and Stage 2 – Implementation.
- Important: Projects are not automatically guaranteed to progress to Stage 2
- Implementation unless the Trust is satisfied that the full requirements of Stage 1 have been met
- Each project must be planned over two stages i.e. Stage 1 – Planning, followed by Stage2 – Implementation (where the plan prepared during Stage 1 is implemented).
- Specific time and funding limits are set for both stages of the project.
- $1000 of approved grant funds is quarantined and must be used for an Independent Financial Audit at the end of the project.
Expected Outcomes
The Protecting Our Places program seeks to work with Aboriginal organisations and Communities to achieve the following:
- Caring for Country
- Partnerships developed and maintained
- Build capacity
- Awareness raising Increased participation
- Use of cultural knowledge
- Encourage and support employment of Aboriginal people and businesses
Eligibility Criteria
The following NSW Aboriginal community organisations are eligible to apply:
- NSW Local Aboriginal Land Councils (LALC)
- NSW Aboriginal Corporations ,registered under the Corporations (Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander) Act 2006
- NSW Incorporated Associations registered under Associations Incorporation Act 2009
- Non-distributing NSW Co-operative registered under Co-operatives National Law and associated Acts
- NSW Registered Native Title Body Corporates.
Other Aboriginal organisations and groups are eligible to apply, however, will need the support of another organisation who will perform the role of External Manager.
Associations and Co-operatives will undergo additional eligibility checks to ensure they are not for profit/non-distributing and that the organisation’s objectives and activities seek to provide benefits for and involves the participation of local Aboriginal people and community.
For more information,visit NSW Government.
For more information, visit https://www.environment.nsw.gov.au/news/connecting-to-country-with-environmental-outcomes?utm_source=miragenews&utm_medium=miragenews&utm_campaign=news