Deadline: 29-Jun-22
The Green Adelaide has launched its annual Grassroots Grant Program to support individuals, volunteers and community groups and other bodies to deliver local projects that contribute to improved management of the metropolitan Adelaide environment.
The Grassroots Grants Program is an opportunity for Green Adelaide to partner with individuals, communities and volunteers to work together and create a cooler, greener, wilder and climate resilient city.
Priorities
To apply, all projects must contribute to one or more of the Board's regional priorities and focus areas:
- Coastal Management : Conservation and restoration of coastal and marine environments.
- Water resources and wetlands: Enhance, and restore water resources and waterdependent ecosystems through on-ground delivery
- Green streets and flourishing parklands: Increase greening of streetscapes and public spaces
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Fauna, flora and ecosystem health in the urban environment :
- Improving knowledge about species and ecological systems and their management
- Protecting, improving and creating terrestrial habitats Implementation of recovery actions for threatened plants, animals and ecological communities
- Controlling pest animals and plants: Reduce the impact and spread of pest plant and animals
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Kind of education:
- Community learning and development through educational activities such as citizen science and sustainability activities
- Rais e awa reness and build capacity about Aboriginal cultural knowledge, values and lore
Funding Information
The total value of the Grassroots Grants Program for Green Adelaide in 2022-23 is $866,000, with grants between $2,000 and $150,000 available per application.
Types of Activities
- Aboriginal engagement (knowledge sharing)
- Communication materials
- Community engagement
- Controlling pest plants and animals
- Education (schools and educational institutions only)
- Fencing
- Revegetation
- Survey and monitoring
Who can apply?
- To be eligible for a grant you must be a legal entity or sponsored by a legal entity. The project must be within the Green Adelaide region and undertaken on a not-for-profit basis.
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Eligible entities include:
- An incorporated community group or organization (or a non-incorporated group with a sponsor)
- An individual or partnership
- A non-government organization
- A school, university or other educational entity (may require a sponsor)
- An incorporated Aboriginal organization (or a non-incorporated group with a sponsor).
For more information, visit Grassroots Grants.
For more information, visit https://www.greenadelaide.sa.gov.au/grants
