Deadline: 28-Mar-23
The Landscape Boards South Australia is now accepting applications for its Grassroots Grant Program to support communities in the Murraylands and Riverland region to undertake projects and activities that help to build the environmental resilience and sustainability of the region.
The program empowers community-based organisations, volunteer groups and individuals who work at a local level to help manage the region’s landscape and natural assets. The grants are supported through levies collected by the Murraylands and Riverland Landscape Board.
Priorities
- Priority will also be given to projects that:
- Engage the broader community, community organisations and volunteers
- Build and/or maintain partnerships with key stakeholders including collaborating in project delivery
- Engage the community in the landscape board’s programs, projects and processes
- Represent good value for money including leveraging cash and/or in-kind contributions
- Result in lasting outcomes and change.
Focus Areas
- Sustainable agricultural and pastoral landscapes
- Work with industry and farming groups to identify and address soil management issues to improve soil health and build resilience
- Encourage integrated management of prioritised pest plants and animals and early detection of alert species for improved biosecurity
- Promote and support the protection and enhancement of on-farm biodiversity and native vegetation as part of a productive system
- Promote and demonstrate best management practices to retain ground-cover and reduce erosion risk
- Support land managers to build resilience in farming systems through monitoring and managing climate risks and extreme events
- Sustainable water use
- Work with the irrigation industry to optimise water use for productive, environmental and cultural outcomes
- Ensure sustainable water use by all water users in a changing climate
- Improve water literacy to develop the community’s understanding of water management for productive, environmental and cultural outcomes
- Support water users to build resilience through monitoring and managing climate risks and extreme events
- Encourage integrated management of prioritised pest plants and animals and early detection of alert species for improved biosecurity
- Healthy rivers, lakes and wetlands
- Manage and deliver environmental water to build the resilience of targeted wetland and floodplain ecosystems
- Actively manage watercourses for improved ecological outcomes in a changing climate
- Deliver initiatives that improve conditions for threatened species and culturally significant species
- Improve water literacy to develop the community’s understanding of water management for productive, environmental and cultural outcomes
- Encourage integrated management of prioritised pest plants and animals and early detection of alert species
- Healthy natural landscapes
- Work in partnership to manage total grazing pressure, including from over-abundant native species
- Work in partnership to proactively manage fire in the landscape to improve or maintain condition of key ecological and cultural assets
- Encourage targeted revegetation and restoration
- Ensure future seed availability of native species for revegetation in a changing climate
- Improve the level of protection for threatened and culturally significant species and ecological communities
- Encourage integrated management of prioritised pest plants and animals and early detection of alert species
- People at the heart of landscape management
- Build and maintain strategic partnerships with, and between, stakeholders for mutually beneficial outcomes
- Work in partnership with First Nations to manage the region’s landscapes, protect and restore cultural values and assets, and build capacity
- Partner with young people, foster their understanding, participation and leadership
- Strengthen capacity through increased knowledge, skills and participation
- Support community-led landscape management, providing resources to support community projects and practical action
- Recognise and encourage volunteers and volunteer community groups and support them to work safely and effectively
Funding Information
- The total amount of funding available in the program for 2023-24 is $470,000. There is no minimum or maximum amount of funding per project, but applicants should keep in mind the total funding available across the region. Applicants are encouraged to include other financial contributions to their projects where possible
- There are 3 application forms based on the amount of funding being sought:
- Funding up to $1,000
- Funding between $1,001 to $10,000
- Funding over $10,001
- Project work can commence from 1 July 2023 and must be completed by 30 June 2024.
Eligibility Criteria
- Applicants must either be a legal entity (e.g. an incorporated association, individual, partnership, corporation/company) or be sponsored by a legal entity. If a sponsor is used, the sponsor will enter into the grant agreement and be responsible for managing the funding on the applicant’s behalf.
- Applicants are strongly encouraged to form partnerships (i.e. joint applications) with relevant organisations and explore ways to share resources between areas and projects to maximise outcomes and minimise the costs of administration and other forms of duplication.
For more information, visit Grassroots Grant Program.