Deadline: 22-Aug-22
Applications are now open for the First Nations Cultural Heritage Grants to protect Aboriginal Cultural Heritage, promote a greater appreciation and awareness of the Aboriginal Cultural Heritage in Geelong and improve the skills and expertise of heritage professionals.
Objectives
- The objectives of the grant are:
- to protect Aboriginal Cultural Heritage in the greater Geelong area
- to conserve and protect items of Aboriginal Cultural Heritage that are included on the Victorian Aboriginal Heritage Register (VAHR)
- to improve knowledge and understanding of Aboriginal Cultural Heritage particularly as it relates to Traditional Owners as protectors of their Cultural Heritage
- to increase understanding, respect and celebration of and cultural participation in Aboriginal Cultural Heritage; and
- to support connection to Country and self-determination
Funding Information
- There is a total grant pool of $100,000 with no limit on individual grant amounts.
Eligibility Projects
- Tangible Cultural Heritage projects
- Land Use projects that demonstrate the Cultural Narrative and/or significance of an area of Land.
- Water Use projects including Traditional Aquacultural – fishing farming systems (rock pools), water-craft – transport – travel.
- Ancestral Remains Repatriation Projects – bringing them home projects to rest the remains of Ancestors on Country as per the legislation.
- Cultural Heritage Restoration Projects that demonstrate living Cultural practices, such as repatriation or restoration of tangible objects, such as axe heads, flints, water-crafts or dwellings and other projects of tangible Cultural Heritage significance.
- Intangible Cultural Heritage projects
- Languages and Knowledge Systems Projects – place naming projects – Language revival projects that demonstrate the Language connection to land and water
- Ancestral and oral traditions – social practices – kinship systems
- Environmental and Ecological systems – Fire Season Calendar, food production systems, Traditional healing and medicines
- Living Cultural Practices and Customs – includes law/lore, birthing ceremony, possum skin ceremony, Traditional women’s and men’s ceremony as living Cultural rites and customs
- Arts – includes dance, song, and artwork that strongly demonstrates living Cultural practices and customs
- Other projects
- Academic and/or Community Intangible Cultural Heritage restorative-based research projects, such as Language, and Traditional healing/medicines
- Community Tangible and Intangible Cultural Heritage practices and customs restorative projects – such as, Traditional stone ceremony practices, possum skin ceremony, and Traditional canoe/watercraft making and ceremony in Language
Eligibility Criteria
- Eligible applicants can apply for grants for projects that recognise, restore, protect and preserve Aboriginal cultural heritage.
- The following is a list of ideas and examples that will be considered for funding. It is guide only and the list should not be considered exhaustive.
- The City’s grants are primarily offered to not-for-profit community organisations with some exceptions to suit the objectives of individual grants.
- All applicants must possess an Australian Business Number (ABN) or provide a Statement by a Supplier Form available from the ATO website.
- Not-for-profit, incorporated bodies, co-operatives or associations.
- Registered charitable organisations – refer to the Australian Charities and Not-for-profits Commission.
- Unincorporated bodies with an auspice.
- Profit-making organisations, commercial entities, businesses.
- Schools and Learning institutions – only for activities that are not curriculum based and the primary benefit is for the wider community.
For more information, visit https://www.geelongaustralia.com.au/grants/article/item/8d927a95b044929.aspx
