National Landcare Program - Environment Small Grants

Overview

The program will provide a total of up to $5 million in grants in 2017-18 to community, environment, and other groups to undertake eligible natural resource management activities that improve the quality of the local environment. The program will support projects that address the following National Landcare Program objective: to protect and conserve Australia’s water, plants and animals and the ecosystems in which they live and interact, in partnership with local communities. The intended outcomes of the program are an: increase in the protection, rehabilitation and restoration of environmental assets increase in the natural resource management community delivering biodiversity and natural resources practice. The grant will be up to 100 per cent of eligible project expenditure. The minimum grant amount is $5,000. The maximum grant amount is $50,000. The maximum grant period is 12 months.