Applications are now open for the First Nations Cultural Heritage Grants to protect Aboriginal Cultural Heritage, promote a greater appreciation and awareness of the Aboriginal Cultural Heritage in Geelong and improve the skills and expertise of heritage professionals.
Objectives
The objectives of the grant are:
to protect Aboriginal Cultural Heritage in the greater Geelong area
to conserve and protect items of Aboriginal Cultural Heritage that are included on the Victorian Aboriginal Heritage Register (VAHR)
to improve knowledge and understanding of Aboriginal Cultural Heritage particularly as it relates to Traditional Owners as protectors of their Cultural Heritage
to increase understanding, respect and celebration of and cultural participation in Aboriginal Cultural Heritage; and
to support connection to Country and self-determination
Funding Information
There is a total grant pool of $100,000 with no limit on individual grant amounts.
Eligibility Projects
Tangible Cultural Heritage projects
Land Use projects that demonstrate the Cultural Narrative and/or significance of an area of Land.
Water Use projects including Traditional Aquacultural – fishing farming systems (rock pools), water-craft – transport – travel.
Ancestral Remains Repatriation Projects – bringing them home projects to rest the remains of Ancestors on Country as per the legislation.
Cultural Heritage Restoration Projects that demonstrate living Cultural practices, such as repatriation or restoration of tangible objects, such as axe heads, flints, water-crafts or dwellings and other projects of tangible Cultural Heritage significance.
Intangible Cultural Heritage projects
Languages and Knowledge Systems Projects – place naming projects – Language revival projects that demonstrate the Language connection to land and water
Ancestral and oral traditions – social practices – kinship systems
Environmental and Ecological systems – Fire Season Calendar, food production systems, Traditional healing and medicines
Living Cultural Practices and Customs – includes law/lore, birthing ceremony, possum skin ceremony, Traditional women’s and men’s ceremony as living Cultural rites and customs
Arts – includes dance, song, and artwork that strongly demonstrates living Cultural practices and customs
Other projects
Academic and/or Community Intangible Cultural Heritage restorative-based research projects, such as Language, and Traditional healing/medicines
Community Tangible and Intangible Cultural Heritage practices and customs restorative projects – such as, Traditional stone ceremony practices, possum skin ceremony, and Traditional canoe/watercraft making and ceremony in Language
Eligibility Criteria
Eligible applicants can apply for grants for projects that recognise, restore, protect and preserve Aboriginal cultural heritage.
The following is a list of ideas and examples that will be considered for funding. It is guide only and the list should not be considered exhaustive.
The City’s grants are primarily offered to not-for-profit community organisations with some exceptions to suit the objectives of individual grants.
All applicants must possess an Australian Business Number (ABN) or provide a Statement by a Supplier Form available from the ATO website.
Not-for-profit, incorporated bodies, co-operatives or associations.
Registered charitable organisations – refer to the Australian Charities and Not-for-profits Commission.
