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August CMN Newsletter
Category Archives: Grants and funds
Call for Expressions of Interest from Landholders: Funding Available for Landscape Improvements
South East Local Land Services is seeking expressions of interest from land managers wanting to improve natural landscapes on their properties. Funding is currently available to support land managers across the Far South Coast to restore waterways and riverbanks, protect and enhance saltmarsh, increase koala habitat, undertake general revegetation, enhance high value native vegetation or plant […]
Do you have a creek, river, wetland and want to fence it, plant it, protect it?
Funding Available for Landholders (Eurobodalla & Bega region) Local Land Services are seeking expressions of interest from land managers wanting to improve, protect and enhance waterways, riparian zones and existing stands of native vegetation on their properties over the 2021/2022 financial year. Priority activities for grant funding include:· installation of fencing to exclude stock from […]
Landcare Led Bushfire Recovery Grants
Up to $50,000 of funding is available for eligible local Landcare Groups, environment networks, and community groups, as part of $14million package for Landcare Led Bushfire Recovery Grants. The program is funded by the Australian Government Department of Agriculture, Water and the Environment. The funding will support landcare bushfire recovery projects in seven government designated bushfire regions impacted by […]
Council Support for Weed Control After Fires
In an effort to support rural landholders who have been impacted by the fire events over summer, Council has secured grant funds through the NSW DPI South East Regional Weeds Program for weed control vouchers to assist in the control of priority weed species within the Bega Valley Shire. These include African lovegrass, Serrated tussock, St […]
Grant Guru Funding Finder
Did you know that the Bega Valley Shire Council has partnered with GrantGuru to provide the Bega Valley Funding Finder to all community groups, not-for-profits, local businesses and individuals in our Shire? Funding Finder is an easy to use portal providing free access to a comprehensive database of grant and funding opportunities including federal, state and local […]
Good Neighbours Fencing Project
Fire affected land managers are reminded that support is still available to replace fences that share a border with public land. The NSW Government has committed $209 million to help bushfire-affected landholders with the cost of rebuilding boundary fences adjoining public lands. Private landholders who share a boundary with public land and were impacted by […]
Threatened Species Recovery Fund – Grants available
In 2016, the Minister for the Environment announced a $5 million Threatened Species Recovery Fund to support communities to actively protect Threatened Species, leverage additional investment, and assist with delivering on the Targets and Action Areas in the Australian Government’s Threatened Species Strategy. The Recovery Fund sits within the National Landcare Programme and delivers tangible benefits for Australia’s […]
Funding for Landholders & Community Groups
South East Local Land Services has Catchment Action NSW and Australian Government incentive funding available for land managers to undertake biodiversity, native vegetation and threatened species improvement projects within the Bega Valley and Eurobodalla shires. Projects should commence in October 2016 and finish in June 2017. Up to $50,000 is available for individual projects that: […]
Bush Connect Project
The Far South Coast Landcare Association (FSCLA) has opened up expressions of interest for landholders wishing to be involved in its ten-year BUSH CONNECT PROJECT. The project’s objective is to fill strategic vegetation gaps across the Bega Valley Shire, improving vegetation links in an East-West direction between the coastal and escarpment forest systems. The Bush […]
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