Deadline: 13-Feb-23
The NSW Government is accepting applications for Community War Memorials Fund.
The NSW Government established the Community War Memorials Fund to help conserve, repair and protect war memorials across NSW. Since the establishment of the program in 2008, grants have been provided for a wide range of projects including conservation assessments, honour roll repair, war memorial cleaning and conservation work, arborist advice for war memorial trees, security measures for memorials, repairs to war memorial halls and improvements to the accessibility of memorials.
The objective of the Community War Memorials Fund is to help conserve, repair and protect war memorials across NSW to support community commemoration.
The Australia ICOMOS Charter for Places of Cultural Significance 2013 (‘Burra Charter’) defines conservation as ‘all the process of looking after a place so as to retain its cultural significance’.
Any work to a war memorial must:
- Demonstrate best practice heritage conservation (please see the Australia ICOMOS Burra Charter).
- Be sensitive to its original material, design and setting (please see the NSW Public Works Advisory’s Caring for their War Memorials guide).
- Be undertaken by suppliers/contractors with appropriate skills, experience, and qualifications.
Funding Information
- The Community War Memorials Fund awards grants of up to $10,000 (excluding GST).
- Please note that grants for work to improve the accessibility of war memorials are capped at $2,000 (excluding GST).
Types of projects that might be funded
- Specialist conservation advice for war memorials
- Condition assessment reports
- Conservation management plans
- Arborist advice for war memorial trees
- Structural assessment reports
- Preservation work
- Protective measures for memorials e.g. repairs to damaged barriers and fences that surround and protect a memorial
- Having protective coatings applied by a specialist conservator
- Stabilisation of fabric
- Painting
- Restoration work
- Removal of inappropriate accretions e.g. graffiti
- Cleaning and corrosion removal by specialist conservators e.g. treatment of rusted original memorial gates or fences
- Repairs to the damaged lettering on war memorial cenotaphs and rolls of honour e.g. regilding, repainting
- Conservation and repairs to stonework on war memorials
- Repointing mortar joints
- Restoring war memorial landscapes to their original design, intent or purpose
- Repairs to damaged sculptures
- Replacement of decayed or missing elements where repair is not feasible
- Other
- Works to improve equitable access to a memorial ($2,000 cap)
- Relocation of memorials for public safety.
Eligibility Criteria
- To be considered for a Community War Memorials Fund grant, you must comply with the following eligibility criteria.
- Applications must be for an existing war memorial commemorating Australia’s military heritage and the war memorial must be located within the State of NSW or, if located outside NSW, be of direct and substantial relevance to the State.
- The definition of a “memorial” includes public monuments, memorial places, landscaped spaces, buildings, sculptures, trees and avenues as well as indoor fixtures such as honour boards, plaques, busts or bas-relief sculptures.
- An application may be made by any organisation, provided the owner or custodian of the memorial, local RSL sub-branch and local council support the bid, where applicable.
- Before applying to the Community War Memorials Fund the memorial must first be recorded on the NSW War Memorials Register (warmemorialsregister.nsw.gov.au).
- Applications must be for the repair, protection and/or conservation of existing memorials. f) The maximum Community War Memorials Fund grant for any one application will ordinarily be $10,000, unless extraordinary circumstances prevail or a memorial of state or national significance is considered to be at risk. Grants for work to improve accessibility are capped at $2,000.
- Applications relating to memorials located on either private or public property are eligible for funding, however the memorial must have a public function and be accessible to the public. h) The State War Memorials Committee will announce grants biannually, with applications opening on Anzac Day and on Remembrance Day. However, the Committee may make extraordinary grants as circumstances require.
- Applications to fund works that have already been completed are not eligible.
- The State War Memorials Committee may, in extraordinary circumstances, approve applications that do not meet all of the criteria.
For more information, visit https://www.veterans.nsw.gov.au/heritage/community-war-memorials-fund/