Apply for Heritage Grants Program – Australia

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Deadline: 4-Aug-23

The Heritage Grants Program is offering funding assistance for the conservation, future planning and promotion of heritage places.

The program is administered by the Department of Planning, Lands and Heritage and is separated into two distinct program streams.

State Heritage Grants: The SHG stream subsidises the cost of conservation works, documentation and professional advice relating to the conservation of State Registered places under private ownership.
- Conservation works projects: Urgent conservation works required to structurally stabilise a State Registered place or essential works required to protect significant building fabric.
  - Major Conservation Projects: Projects that re-activate a heritage place for the purpose of heritage tourism, public benefit and enjoyment or projects that respond to natural disaster mitigation or economic recovery and job creation may be eligible for increased funding.
- Documentation projects: Projects that demonstrate planning for the future of the place such as the preparation of Conservation Management Plans, strategies, building condition assessments or Archaeological Management Plans.
Community Heritage Grants: The CHG grant stream provides assistance to not-for-profit organisations, businesses and local governments for education, community engagement and interpretation projects.
- Community Engagement & Interpretation: Providing funding assistance to events or activities that celebrate a State Registered place. Projects which promote heritage conservation across a region or sector such as heritage trade skills workshops and training, specialist conservation talks and heritage tours can be assisted under this category.

A total of $1,221,000 has been allocated to the Heritage Grants Program in the 2023/24 State Budget.
- Stream 1: State Heritage Grants (SHG)
  - 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.
  - The maximum standard grant per project is $66,000 (ex GST)
  - Major Conservation Projects-Funding of up to $100,000 ex GST
- Stream 2: Community Heritage Grants (CHG)
  - Matched funding up to $20,000 is offered per complete project. The minimum funding to any one project is $1,000.
Duration: All projects and events must be completed within 12 months from the execution of the grant agreement.

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.
  - CHG projects must celebrate and/or promote a State Registered Heritage Place (SRHP)
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 incorporating SRHP/assessment program places and local heritage places.
  - Interpretation that is across geographic regions or industry/professional sectors.

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
  - have held the certificate of title for three or more years.
- Note: All persons and corporate entities in ownership of a State Registered Place are eligible to apply, with the exception of Commonwealth, State government agencies and local governments.
- The following are not eligible to apply for funding in the SHG stream:
  - local governments
  - Australian Government agencies
  - State Government agencies
  - applicants with an active grant under a previous round applying for new works.
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 or
  - WA local government authorities.
- 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.