Landscape Boards South Australia: Grassroots Grants Program

Deadline: 28-Apr-23

The Landscape Boards South Australia is now accepting applications for its Grassroots Grants Program to support individuals, volunteers, community groups and other organisations working on a not-for-profit basis, with local landscape management projects.

Board Priorities 

• Eligible projects will contribute to one or more of the priorities of the Eyre Peninsula Regional Landscape Plan, which are:
  • Water – water allocation planning and water affecting activities.
  • Sustainable agriculture – protecting the region’s soils and facilitating regenerative land management to improve soil health.
  • Pest plants and animals – supporting landowners to undertake priority pest plant and animal activities and reducing threats from impact-causing native species.
  • Biodiversity – protecting and restoring priority coastal and in-land biodiversity.
  • Community – community including Aboriginal peoples, actively engaged in landscape management.

Funding Information

• Funding is available across two funding streams:
  • Small Community Grants for up to $5,000 (GST exclusive)
  • Large Community Grants for up to $15,000 (GST exclusive)
• This year the total pool of funding has been increased to $112,000 (GST exclusive).

Eligibility Criteria

• To be eligible the applicants will need to:
  • be an individual, volunteer, community organisation, farming group or other working body (e.g. local government association);
  • be undertaking natural resources management activities that help to achieve environmental benefits at the local level (e.g. pest plant or animal control, re-vegetation, erosion control, community engagement etc.);
  • be a legal entity or be sponsored by a legal entity;
  • have the agreement of any partner and/or sponsoring organisation to submit the proposal, and provide a letter of support with the application form;
  • ensure that proposed project activities are not a component of any other funding agreement;
  • ensure that written approval for any works undertaken on land owned by another person/entity other than the applicant, is attached to the application; or
  • be undertaking project activities within the Eyre Peninsula Landscape Board region.

For more information, visit Grassroots Grants Program.