Source: Northern Territory Police and Fire Services
The Canberra Raiders are among the 2023 Heritage Grant recipients.
The Canberra Raiders, Tidbinbilla Pioneers Association and the Ginninderra Catchment Group are among the recipients of the 2023 ACT Heritage Grants.
The ACT Heritage Grants program will provide $344,000 to preserve and celebrate the unique stories of the ACT’s history and heritage.
Fifteen community-led projects and three community partnership projects will receive a share of this funding.
The selected projects are intended to help ensure Canberrans continue to appreciate stories of the city’s past – natural, Indigenous, and built – well into the future.
Ongoing heritage reform work is also taking place in the ACT and will complement the projects receiving grants. This focuses on works enabling the continued preservation and use of and access to places and objects registered on the ACT Heritage Register.
Selected projects that celebrate First Nations heritage and facilitate inclusive community partnerships and participation have been prioritised.
These projects include the delivery of interpretive signage, oral histories, publications and conservation management plans across the ACT.
Community Heritage Partnership projects, including the Heritage Festival, the Heritage Advisory Service and a Cultural Trees Heritage Assessment project, will receive $184,500.
The 2023–24 individual recipients and projects for the ACT Heritage Grants Program are:
- Tidbinbilla Pioneers Association: Rock Valley Conservation Management Plan – $11,130
- Rosanna Burston: Well Station Oral History – $2,950
- Hall School Museum & Heritage Centre: Conservation Management Project – $9,800
- Hall School Museum & Heritage Centre: Education Display Spaces – $4,200
- Canberra Raiders Pty Ltd: Oral Histories – $15,330
- Ginninderra Catchment Group: Canberra Tracks Indigenous trees signage – $11,230
- Ozmega Committee: Ozmega Heritage Postcards – $5,710
- Deakin Residents’ Association: Discovering and Valuing Deakin’s Heritage – $14,780
- Heraldry & Genealogy Society of Canberra: 60 years in Canberra – $5,600
- National Foundation for Australian Women: ACT Women web-based digital bios – $12,000
- Brendan O’Keefe: History of Well Station – $7,000
- Dickson Residents’ Association: Dickson’s Once Upon a Time Centenary – $5,020
- Capital Region Heritage Rail Ltd: Rock Valley Homestead conservation works – $24,130
- Catherine Edlington: Oral History of Betty Edlington – $1,000
- Reid Residents’ Association: Conservation Management Plan for Reid Sportsground – $29,620
- Community Heritage Partnership Projects:
- Heritage Advisory Service – $50,000
- Canberra and Region Heritage Festival – $80,000
- Cultural Trees Heritage Assessments – $54,500.
Last year, five Heritage Grants were recognised in the 2022 National Trust Heritage Awards.
Find out more about the ACT Heritage Grants program on the ACT Government Environment website.
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