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APPENDIX
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GRANTS AVAILABLE FOR CEMETERIES CONSERVATION
NSW HERITAGE
OFFICE
Contact:
02 9635 6155
One of
the functions of the NSW Heritage office is to distribute funds for
heritage projects. Funds are limited and not all worthwhile projects
can be supported, so applications should be clear and complete.
Heritage
Incentives Program
The NSW
Heritage Incentives Program supports the community's identification,
assessment, management and interpretation of NSW heritage.
Funding
is available for:
- Site
works and presentation projects.
- Projects
involving physical conservation works and the interpretation and presentation
of individual heritage items.
Funding
is available only for items listed on local environmental plans, regional
environmental plans and the State Heritage Register. State government
agencies are not eligible. Projects must be completed within two years;
- 50%
of the work must be completed in the first year;
- the
minimum total cost of projects must be $20,000;
- the
minimum size of grants or loans will be $10,000;
- Funding
is not available for private residences in the Newcastle-Sydney-Wollongong
metropolitan area.
Call
the Heritage Office for further details.
IN THE
CASE OF SMALLER PROJECTS PLEASE NOTE:
Your Council
may be able to help through a local heritage fund. In the case of non-metropolitan
areas the Heritage Office will provide matching funds to councils to
a maximum of $7,500 per year to support such funds. These funds are
at the discretion of your local Council and are generally advanced as
small grants but may provide grants or loans of up to $10,000 on a $-for-$
basis.
CONSERVATION
MANAGEMENT PLANS
Funding
of up to $2,500 per project is available to assist the preparation of
conservation management plans for items considered to be of state heritage
significance (listing is not required). Support is available for the
owner or lessee of the subject item. Government agencies are not eligible.
EMERGENCY
SMALL GRANTS
Funding
of up to $5,000 is available for projects requiring immediate assistance
outside the biennial funding cycle. Applicants must provide convincing
evidence of urgency to justify support. State government agencies are
not eligible.
LOCAL
COUNCIL HERITAGE FUNDS
Most
Councils have specific funds allocated for heritage works. The amount
varies from council to council. You should contact Council's Heritage
Officer, Heritage Adviser or Heritage Planner or other person responsible
for heritage issues in the council area. This person should be able
to advise you if there are funds available, whether your project is
eligible, relevant dates and how to apply for this funding. The Council
may have appointed a Heritage Advisory Committee who will assess these
applications. Projects may include management plans and capital works
of public benefit.
The NSW
Heritage Office is prepared to financially support any non-metropolitan
council to establish a local heritage fund.
FUNDING
FOR NATURAL ENVIRONMENT PROJECTS
If your
work involves the natural landscape and a cemetery the following may be
of benefit:
Commonwealth
Natural Heritage Trust Program
Enquiries:
Natural Heritage Trust, Canberra, phone 1800 065 823.
The first
5 years of the Commonwealth's Natural Heritage Trust Program was administered
in NSW by the Department of Land and Water Conservation (DLWC) and ended
in 2001. The next five-year program is to start in 2002 but with significant
changes, not yet fully clear as at April, 2002.
NSW
Environmental Trust Program
Enquiries:
When available, details will be posted on the Department's website at
www.epa.nsw.gov.au/envtrust.
The NSW
Environmental Trust Program for natural environment projects is administered
through the Environment Protection Agency. In year 2000 a total of $3
million was granted, including funds for environmental research projects,
rehabilitation of abandoned mines, various grants of $5,000 to $100,000
for community restoration projects, 80 grants of $1,500 each for the
greening of schools, and grants of $5,000-$100,000 for environmental
education.
It is
expected that the program areas to be funded in 2002 will be announced
in May, 2002. Funding will be granted only to government and community
bodies.
ROYAL
AUSTRALIAN HISTORICAL SOCIETY
Contact:
02 9247 8001; www.rahs.org.au
The RAHS
administers two schemes with funding from the NSW Heritage Office (max
$4 000 per project). Projects must assist the conservation or promotion
of heritage items in NSW. Money from these schemes can be used for maintenance
or repair, but not for capital works. However, they can be used for
cemetery recording where the product will be placed in the public domain.
The grant amounts for both these schemes are small and applications
are competitive. You should contact the RAHS directly for information
regarding application opening and closing dates.
The most
relevant is the Small Grants Heritage Assistance Program for Archives
and Local History. Under this scheme you may apply for funding for the
recording of a cemetery, cemetery transcripts or other work that can
be made available through libraries, historical societies, the internet
or other public areas. Grants can also be obtained to employ an expert
to run workshops on preserving archival records, basic maintenance procedures
in cemeteries or similar activities where members of historical societies,
cemeteries friends' groups and other community members can learn skills
to ensure ongoing conservation.
COMMUNITY
HERITAGE GRANTS PROGRAM - NATIONAL LIBRARY
Contact
Heather Clark (02) 6262 1147; www.nla.gov.au
The National
Library of Australia runs a Community Heritage Grants program of up
to $7,000 to assist libraries, museums and other organisations to preserve
collections of documentary heritage and to improve access. This may
be relevant if you have burial registers or other related documentary
information for your cemetery and are a Cemeteries Friends group.
MINISTRY
OF THE ARTS CULTURAL GRANTS PROGRAM
- LITERATURE
& HISTORY PROGRAM: LOCAL HISTORY
This
program is for publishing only, for example, a history of a cemetery.
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