Deadline: 09-Jun-21
Green Adelaide is launching its annual Grassroots Grant program to support individuals, volunteers and community groups and other bodies to deliver local projects that contribute to improved management of the metropolitan Adelaide environment.
Funding could be used to kick-start a new project, or build on an existing one with activities such as plantings, nature education, citizen science, weed and pest control, fencing, and erosion management and community engagement.
Priorities
The Grassroots Grants program is an opportunity for Green Adelaide to partner with individuals, communities and volunteers to work together and create a cooler, greener, wilder and climate-resilient city. To support this vision for Adelaide, there are seven priorities:
- Coastal management
- Water resources and wetlands
- Green streets and flourishing parklands
- Biodiversity and water sensitive urban design
- Controlling pest plants and animals
- Nature education
- Fauna, flora and ecosystem health in the urban environment.
Objectives
All grants must contribute to one or more Grassroots Grants objective.
The objectives are:
- Protection and ecologically sustainable management of landscapes and their interconnected elements, in particular land, soil, water, native fauna and flora.
- Protection and conservation of biodiversity, and restoration or rehabilitation of ecological systems and processes so they are resilient to changes.
- Prevention or control of impacts caused by pest species of animals and plants that may have an adverse effect on the environment, primary production or the community.
- Encouragement of the restoration or rehabilitation of ecological systems and processes that have been lost or degraded.
- Support for primary industries, interest of Aboriginal peoples and resilient communities.
- Provision of information, educational initiatives and support mechanisms to strengthen the skills, knowledge and capacity of people to sustainably manage natural resources.
- The program encourages partnerships to achieve these objectives. Projects must also be broad enough to deliver benefits across the community, not just to an individual person or organisation.
Funding Information
- The total value of the Grassroots Grants program for Green Adelaide in 2021-22 is $1 million with grants between $2000 and $150,000 available per application.
Eligibility Criteria
- To be eligible for a grant you must be a legal entity or sponsored by a legal entity. The project must be within the Green Adelaide region and the project must be undertaken on a not-for-profit basis.
- Eligible entities include:
- an incorporated community group or organisation (or a non-incorporated group with
- an sponsor that is a legal entity)
- an individual or partnership
- a non-government organisation
- a school, university or other educational entity (may require a sponsor)
- an incorporated Aboriginal organisation (or a non-incorporated group with a sponsor).
For more information, visit https://www.environment.sa.gov.au/topics/green-adelaide/grants