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Protecting our Places Grants

Aim of the program

The aim of the program is to protect land that is culturally significant to Aboriginal people and to support education projects about the environment and its importance in Aboriginal life.

Objectives

The objectives of the Protecting our Places Program are:

• to restore or rehabilitate Aboriginal land or land that is culturally significant to Aboriginal people and;
• to educate Aboriginal and other communities about the local environment and the value Aboriginal communities place on their natural environment.

Grants awarded in 2011

A total of $500,000 was offered under the Protecting our Places program in 2011. The Trust received 25 applications requesting $806,212 and approved 16 grants totalling $513,017.  A list of successful projects and project summaries is available on the 2011 Protecting our Places grant summaries page.

Information sessions and workshops for 2011

Information workshops for the Protecting our Places program were run in 2011 to help applicants prepare a quality grant application and provide information on managing projects.

Guidelines and Application form 2011

The documentation below is for information only and will be updated at the next call for applications, expected to be in March 2012.

Eligibility: Organisations that previously received a Protecting our Places grant may not be eligible to apply to the 2011 Protecting our Places Program unless the Trust has received all progress and final reports for any previously Trust funded projects.

 

Stage	Opening date	Closing date	Forms
Application (one-stage process)	19 March 2011	CLOSED	2011 PoP Guidelines 110234GL992011.pdf (498kb, PDF)
			2011 PoP Application Form 110233AppformPP2011.doc (686kb,Word Document)
			Schedule C Project Measures Descriptions 101045ProjMeas.pdf (132kb, PDF)
			2011 Financial Information - Section C FINPOP2009.xls (35kb, 2003 Excel Spreadsheet)

Further information sources

The information on this page may be helpful in preparing a Protecting our Places program project application.

Grants awarded in previous years

For information on previous grants awarded please select the relevant program from the side navigation menu.

For more information, contact the Trust's Aboriginal Programs Officer on (02) 8837 6399.

NSW Environmental Trust
PO Box 644, PARRAMATTA NSW 2124
Phone: (02) 8837 6093
Email: info@environmentaltrust.nsw.gov.au