Grants programs are opportunities for you to seek support for your history and heritage project if it has a positive impact on your wider community or can be shown to be a significant collection and is in need of preservation or conservation. Two significant programs are detailed below and the Public Record Office Victoria also provides ‘Alternative funding sources’ information if these grant programs do not suit your project.
HistoryAtWork has undertaken many community heritage and local history projects under grant programs over the years, so please get in touch if you think either of these or other government, commercial and philanthropic grant opportunities are the one for you – we would be delighted to talk with you about your application and to assist if you are successful in receiving a grant.
Community Heritage Grants
The Community Heritage Grants program is run by the National Library of Australia and offers up to $15,000 for significance assessments, preservation needs assessments, conservation and collection management activities, and training workshops that will ensure the preservation and public access of your collection. You can find out more about the program here – and remember submission time comes round every year in April, with the outcomes announced in October or November.
Local History Grants
The Local History Grants Program is available for community and history organisations for projects that preserve, record and share local, social and community history across Victoria. It is administered by the Public Record Office Victoria and also offers up to $15,000. There will be a new round of funding offered early in 2021.
The LHGP projects will fund oral history, e-publications, conservation and cataloguing, exhibitions, online projects, training in local history, interpretation, digitisation, digital storytelling, apps, consultancy fees, archival materials and museum standard storage and display cases.