Deadline: 31-Aug-22
The Nillumbik Shire Council is seeking applications for the History & Heritage Grant Program that aims to fund history and/or heritage activities within Nillumbik Shire.
Priority will be given to new and innovative grant activities that provide opportunities for community to engage with their local history and heritage as part of an active and creative lifestyle.
Funding Information
Grants of up to $600 are available from a grant pool of $8400.
Eligibility Criteria
To be eligible for History & Heritage Grant, applicants must:
- Be a not-for-profit incorporated organisation or community group that lives, works, studies, volunteers or plays in Nillumbik, or has a strong connection to Nillumbik.
- Be auspiced by a not-for-profit incorporated organisation if applicants are unincorporated, an individual or a commercial business. Organisations can auspice multiple applications
- Hold a minimum of $10 million public liability insurance
- Have satisfactorily acquitted all grants previously awarded
- Be able to deliver the grant activity by 30 June 2023
Ineligible
Applications will not be considered for:
- A project, event or activity that is not being held in the Nillumbik municipal boundary, or does not directly benefit Nillumbik residents.
- Duplication of existing activities, projects, programs, initiatives or products currently funded by Council. If you wish to leverage off an existing activity, project, program, initiative or product you must identify the innovative element or point of difference/value add.
- Activities that are solely for fundraising purposes, without broader community benefit
- Competitions with no community component
- Prize money and awards
- Activities, projects or events with a sole political or religious purpose that could be perceived as divisive within the community
- Activities that are primarily commercial
- Events that are fully ticketed with no free or heavily subsidized component
- Single membership-based events that are not open to the public
- Alcohol or gambling related activities
- Projects or activities that are curriculum based or solely student focused
- Projects or activities that have received full funding from another source
- Applicants that are in debt to or have any outstanding commitments with the Shire
For more information, visit Nillumbik Shire Council.
For more information, visit https://www.nillumbik.vic.gov.au/Community/Grants/Council-grants/History-Heritage-Grants