What is the grants program?
The ACT Heritage Grants Program30 provides funding to community groups to assist in the understanding, conservation and promotion of ACT heritage. The annual program is funded by the ACT Government and administered by the ACT Heritage Council.
What are the outcomes?
Projects funded through the grants program during the reporting period include:31
- interpretation of significant Aboriginal heritage sites in the Tuggeranong area through walks guided by Ngunnawal people, audiovisual pieces on a website and a heritage festival event
- provision of interpretive signage for the heritage-listed homestead, Nil Desperandum, and interpretive signage on the history of the Civic merry-go-round
- an archaeological study of Springbank Island in Lake Burley Griffin.
Why are the Heritage Grants important to the ACT community?
The grants program improves the community’s knowledge and understanding of the ACT’s heritage, and conserves and showcases this heritage. The program also allows the community to become involved with the care of our heritage, which may encourage long-term interest in heritage places and objects, and their care and upkeep.
Nil Desperandum homestead. A Heritage grant provided funding for interpretive signage. Photo: ACT Government