Funding from your local council

Many local councils in NSW provide small Heritage Grants to assist heritage projects. Check with your council to see if it offers grants through its local heritage fund: ask for the officer who normally deals with heritage matters.

Applications for funding through NSW Heritage Grants are now closed, we’ll be notifying when they reopen.

Heritage Grants Available

Up to $10,000 (ex GST) grant funding per year is available to successful applicants.

Applicants will be allocated funding for both the 2017-18 and 2018-19 year at this funding round unless a council requests otherwise.

Successful applicants that are new to the stream (ie have not received funding in the 2011-2013 to 2016-17 funding rounds) will not be required to provide a matching funding contributions in 2017-18 or 2018-19. This will also apply where a council has amalgamated since April 2016 and one or more of the former councils has not received funding during that period.

Other successful applicants are required to provide a matching funding contribution (ie $1:$1 OEH: council funding).

Funding is limited and applicants will be assessed against the following criteria:

• the level of Local Heritage Places Grants funding paid since November 2011 (with preference to new applicants and those that have received less funding)
• the number of items, areas and sites listed under Schedule 5 Environmental Heritage of an applicant’s Local Environmental Plan, (with preference to those with a larger number of items) Local Heritage Places Grants Guidelines | 2017-18 to 2018-19 NSW Heritage Grants | October 2016 p 5
• the location of the applicant (with preference to applicants from more remote areas) using http://www.spatialonline.com.au/ARIA_2011/default.aspx as a reference.
• the socio-economic level of the LGA (with preference to those with a higher disadvantage) using the Australian Bureau of Statistics, Local Government Area Indexes as a reference.

Funding will be notionally allocated to applicants according to those assessments and with reference to the available funding. Consideration may also be given to ensuring a broader/less concentrated geographic distribution of funding across the state.