Deadline: 15-Mar-22
The Port Phillip Bay Fund (PPBF) is a grants program that support projects by community groups and organisations who are working to protect and improve coastal habitats and marine ecosystems for their biodiversity values through partnership and engagement with on-ground activities.
Objectives
- Value: Improving the appreciation and understanding of Victoria’s iconic Bay and ensuring it is healthy and actively cared for through on-ground actions
- Conserve & Restore: Conserving and restoring coastal habitat and marine life and enhancing the marine environment
- Engage: Engaging and involving urban communities in on-ground actions that aim to protect and care for the health of the Bay
- Partnerships: Improving collaboration and partnerships across a range of interested groups and organisations to protect and enhance the health of the Bay
Priority Activities
- Improve appreciation and understanding of the Bay’s values by
- Improve collaboration and partnerships across community, industry, and government by
- Conserve and restore coastal habitat
- Conserve and restore marine habitats and marine life
- Ensure nutrient and sediment loads do not exceed current levels and pollutant loads are reduced where practicable
- Reduce litter loads to the Bay
Funding Information
- Grants up to $100,000 are available for innovative, large-scale projects and up to $25,000 for smaller projects that focus on conserving and protecting coastal habitats and the marine ecosystem.
Eligibility Criteria
- The 2021-22 PPBF grants are open to:
- Environmental groups and networks, such as Coastcare, Friends groups, and Landcare
- Volunteer-based recreational and community groups with an interest in the Bay, such as diving and naturalist groups, Scouts, Rotary, Lions, senior citizens, and youth clubs
- Public Land Committees of Management
- Traditional Owners/custodians (RAP and non-RAP)
- Kindergartens, Primary and Secondary Schools
- Research institutes, Local Government, and other non-profit organisations
Who cannot apply?
- The following organisations and individuals cannot apply for funding:
- Commonwealth and State government departments.
- Commercial organisations
- Bodies established for profit-making purposes
- Sole traders
- Individuals
For more information, visit Port Phillip Bay Fund.
For more information, visit https://www.marineandcoasts.vic.gov.au/grants/port-phillip-bay-fund