Deadline: 8-May-25
The National Library of Australia is pleased to announce the Community Heritage Grants Program to support community-based organisations to identify and care for Australian, moveable cultural heritage collections which are publicly accessible, locally held and nationally significant.
CHG is open to a wide range of non-profit, incorporated organisations and some government agencies who hold nationally significant collections. There is a strong focus on supporting small groups with volunteer staff, who would benefit from working with professional cultural heritage experts.
Funding Information
- Max grant: $20,000 (including GST)
Eligible Projects
- Collection Preservation Projects
- As noted, grants are structured in a three-stage process:
- Significance Assessment
- Preservation Needs Assessment
- Conservation and Collection Management Activities.
- As noted, grants are structured in a three-stage process:
- Training Projects
- Organisations may apply for training project funding.
- Organisations are encouraged to invite members of other local groups to extend the outreach and outcomes of training sessions.
- preventive conservation Training topics might include, but are not limited to:
- collection care and handling
- cataloguing and use of cataloguing software
- disaster preparedness
- collection management
- assessing significance.
Eligibility Criteria
- The Community Heritage Grants program is open to not-for-profit, incorporated organisations and federal, state/territory and local government agencies and university groups, that own or manage a moveable heritage collection of nationally significant material and which is accessible to the general public (either by appointment, via online platforms, or on temporary or permanent exhibition).
- Examples of not-for-profit, incorporated organisations which are encouraged to apply are:
- Archives
- Art galleries
- Community groups with heritage collections
- Historical societies
- Indigenous groups
- Libraries
- Local government / council
- Multicultural groups
- Museums
- Religious groups
- Cultural heritage professional associations (for training projects)
- They particularly welcome applications from the program’s high priority target groups:
- Community-based organisations with limited or no paid staff and/or limited resources
- Indigenous and multicultural organisations
- Rural and remote organisations.
For more information, visit National Library of Australia.
