Community Heritage Grants

What can be funded by a Community Heritage Grant?
The annual round offers cash grants of up to $20,000. The first two stages support organisations to work with heritage practitioners to:

Explain the meaning and value of their collections (a significance assessment)
Outline the condition of their collections and create a plan to manage it (a preservation needs assessment)
In the third and final stage, organisations can apply for funding to:

Undertake conservation and collection management activities as recommended in the preservation needs assessment
Funding is also available for:

Collection management training projects
Further details about eligible projects are available in the CHG Guidelines.

All allocations of grants are based on the recommendations of assessors and availability of funds. No applicant can be guaranteed funding nor can any applicant be guaranteed funding to the full amount requested. Funding varies from year to year and it is not possible to fund all worthwhile projects.

The Community Heritage Grants (CHG) program supports community organisations to care for Australian moveable, cultural heritage collections.

CHG is open to non-profit, incorporated organisations, government agencies and university groups. The program has a strong focus on supporting local groups with limited funding who would benefit from access to professional cultural heritage expertise. Applications from Indigenous and multicultural organisations are encouraged.

Organisations progress through a three-stage journey, over multiple rounds, to learn about their collection, how to care for it, and plan for its future. Projects also aim to build the knowledge and skills of paid and volunteer staff to increase their capacity to share valuable heritage collections with all Australians.