Community Heritage Grants Program in Australia

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.
• 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.