Deadline: 4-Aug-25
Applications are now open for the Heritage Grants Program to offer funding assistance for the conservation, future planning and promotion of heritage places.
Grant Streams
- There are two heritage grant streams administered by the Department of Planning, Lands and Heritage:
- State Heritage Grants: The State Heritage Grants stream subsidises the cost of physical conservation works, documentation and professional advice relating to the conservation of State Registered places.
- Community Heritage Grants: The Community Heritage Grants stream subsidises the cost of educational activities, community engagement and interpretation projects that celebrate a State Registered Place, a place in the Heritage Council’s assessment program or group of local heritage places.
Funding Information
- State Heritage Grants
- Grants of up to $50,000 are offered for conservation works projects and up to $16,000 for documentation projects, on a dollar-for-dollar basis.
- Your project may be eligible for Major Conservation Project funding of up to $100,000
- Community Heritage Grants
- Grants of up to $10,000 are offered per Standard Project.
- Your project may be eligible for Major Project funding of up to $30,000
- The minimum funding to any one project is $1,000. All funding is offered on a matched basis; in-kind contributions can be accepted under the community stream.
Eligible Projects
- State Heritage Grants (SHG)
- SHG projects must meet one or more of the below criteria:
- Urgent conservation works that are proposed to stabilise the place.
- Essential conservation works that are required to protect significant building fabric.
- The project demonstrates planning for the future of the place.
- SHG projects must meet one or more of the below criteria:
- Community Heritage Grants (CHG)
- CHG projects must celebrate and/or promote a State Registered Heritage Place (SRHP) or Local Heritage Survey places through either:
- promoting heritage conservation;
- interpretation focusing on standalone projects (single place projects), or multiple place projects such as heritage trails/local heritage walks; and
- interpretation that is across geographic regions or industry/professional sectors.
- CHG projects must celebrate and/or promote a State Registered Heritage Place (SRHP) or Local Heritage Survey places through either:
Eligibility Criteria
- State Heritage Grants (SHG)
- To be eligible for the SHG stream applicants must:
- be a private owner of a State Registered place;
- hold comprehensive building insurance for the place; and
- have held the certificate of title for three or more years.
- All persons and corporate entities in ownership of a State Registered Place are eligible to apply, except for Commonwealth, State government agencies and local governments.
- The following additional eligibility criteria also applies to some applicants:
- Non-government entities that are leasing a government-owned place may be eligible if they can provide evidence the maintenance of the place is their full responsibility.
- Owners that have held the Certificate of Title for three years or less must provide evidence that the cost of repairs substantially exceeds, in the opinion of the Outcome Assessment Panel, the benefit to the owner.
- Applications from owners of places that are on Heritage Council’s assessment program may be eligible if they are for the preparation of a Conservation Management Plan (CMP).
- Local governments are eligible to apply only for funding for conservation documents (CMPs etc), which relate to either State registered or assessment program places.
- To be eligible for the SHG stream applicants must:
- Community Heritage Grants (CHG)
- To be eligible for the CHG grant stream, applicants must be one of the following:
- Incorporated not-for-profit organisation registered with the Australian Charities and Not-for-profits Commission (ACNC)
- Businesses, including individuals/ sole traders, with a valid ABN
- WA local government authorities
- Applicants must also meet all the below criteria:
- Hold appropriate business, professional indemnity, public liability insurance or comprehensive building insurance (as applicable to the project) for the duration of the project.
- Not have an active grant application for the same/similar project from a previous Community Heritage Program funding round.
- Disclose all sources of funding for the project in the project application.
- Provide evidence of place ownership or owner authorisation if your project involves any works to a place.
- To be eligible for the CHG grant stream, applicants must be one of the following:
Ineligibility Criteria
- State Heritage Grants (SHG)
- The following are not eligible to apply for funding in the SHG stream:
- Australian Government agencies
- State Government agencies
- Applicants with an active grant under a previous round applying for new works that relate to existing applications.
- The following are not eligible to apply for funding in the SHG stream:
- Community Heritage Grants (CHG)
- The following are not eligible for funding assistance under the program:
- State government entities or other affiliated bodies
- Applicants that have an active grant project under a previous round of the program.
- The following are not eligible for funding assistance under the program:
For more information, visit Government of Western Australia.