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Applications for Community Action Grants round now open

Local community groups can now apply for small grants to help fund local environmental and sustainable projects.
The Gillard Government has announced that $5 million will be available through the 2011-12 Community Action Grants round.
Community Action Grants help rural, urban and Indigenous community groups around Australia take action to conserve and protect their local environment and natural resources.
Grants of between $5,000 and $20,000 are available to help local community groups undertake activities such as planting trees, revegetating landscapes, rehabilitating dunes, removing weeds, controlling pests, holding field days, recording traditional ecological knowledge and improving sustainable land management practices.
Since Community Action Grants were announced in 2009, 877 projects have received funding worth more than $15 million (GST exclusive).
This year, eligibility has been broadened to include all local community groups that deliver environmental and sustainable agriculture projects.
Eligible community groups may include rotary clubs, surf clubs and scout groups, in addition to Indigenous, Landcare, Coastcare and other local community groups.

The Australian Government is committed to supporting local community and volunteer groups which play a vital role in restoring the landscape.

Community Action Grants are part of the Australian Government’s Caring for our Country initiative.
Funding allows volunteers and local community groups to contribute to the Caring for our Country priority areas of protecting biodiversity and natural icons, coastal environments and critical aquatic habitats, and using sustainable farm practices.

Date: Applications for the 2011-12 Community Action Grants will close Monday 1 August 2011.
More information on Caring for our Country and Community Action Grants, including how to apply, is available at www.nrm.gov.au or by calling 1800 552 008.

‘Go for your life’ Kitchen Garden Project with Stephanie Alexander – grant applications now open for Victorian schools!

Funding is now available to Victorian schools through the ‘Go for your life’ (GFYL) Kitchen Garden Project with Stephanie Alexander. The Victorian State Government has announced it is providing a further $1.1 million in a third round of grants available to Victorian government schools with primary enrolments (excluding existing GFYL or National Program Schools). All Victorian government schools with a primary enrolment are eligible for this funding.

More details here

Community Group Grant Applications for Maribyrnong

Tis the season for getting ready for grant applications:
http://www.maribyrnong.vic.gov.au/Page/Page.asp?Page_Id=4936

Subscribe to Maribyrnong’s eNewsletters

-including Greening Maribyrnong and Maribyrnong Fruit & Veg for All. Heaps of stuff and archived material as well.

http://www.maribyrnong.vic.gov.au/eNewsletter/eNewsletterList.asp

Iramoo is excited to have received funding to build a NEW EcoLiving Centre and are in the design concept stage for the new Eco-Living Centre at Iramoo Sustainable Community Centre at Victoria University St.Albans and would love to receive some feedback from people regarding what they’d like to see and do at Iramoo.  They can either cut and paste the Survey Monkey website from the at newsletter or visit our website www.iramoo.org to get the information required (and see what else we have to offer).

Hope you can assist and look forward to receiving some feedback.

Iramoo Newsletter

The Big Green Idea is a new funding initiative from the British Council designed to help put eco-visionary ideas into action. Five project grants of AU$10,000 each are on offer to people who will make a real contribution to Australia’s environmental future.

With urban centres expanding rapidly throughout the world, the challenge of making them sustainable becomes even more pressing. The Big Green Idea is designed to assist initiate new projects that motivate people to minimise their own climate change impacts.

The British Council are looking for eco-entrepreneurs with savvy ideas that will help address some of the biggest sustainability challenges for urban communities while making a positive impact on the way people live.

Specifically, funded projects should address the following urban issues:
waste reduction and efficiency
transport and travel
energy reduction
water efficiency
sustainable design

Applications are now open and close Friday 4 December 2009.

For further information visit: www.biggreenidea.com.au