Community Grants

Sutherland Shire Council's Community Grants Program 2011

Grants Available:

• Annual Community Services Grants Program
• Annual Community Arts Grants Program

Applications for funding of the above programs opened on Monday, 2 August 2010.

For application forms, guidelines and relevant information for each program please use the links above.

Grants close at 4pm on Friday, 1 October 2010. Late applications will not be considered.

For more information on the Annual Community Services Grant Program phone 9710 0159.

For more information on the Annual Community Arts Grants Program phone 9710 0991.

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Grants Available to Enhance Greenweb

Sutherland Shire Council through its Greenweb Program and in partnership with Department of Environment Climate Change and Water, is able to provide a grant of up to $2,000 to owners of private property for ecological restoration of natural bushland on their site.

Council's Greenweb program is part of a regional approach to the conservation of the Sydney Basin's remaining biodiversity.

Greenweb aims to protect and enhance native plant and animal populations by identifying key areas of bushland habitat and establishing interconnecting 'linkages' or corridors. These corridors which run through both public and private lands will connect islands of bushland and make it easier for the movement and interchange of fauna and flora. This will help to maintain healthy populations and diversity and ensure the long-term sustainability of the natural environment.

Ecological restoration could include such works as:

- Removal of invasive bushland weeds
- Regeneration and revegetation of natural bushland with local native flora
- Bank and slope stabilisation
- Habitat protection

There is a limited budget for this program ($20,000) and a statutory requirement that it be used for those properties that are in the Greenweb network as identified in Sutherland Shire Council Development Control Plan 2006. Assistance will also be prioritised according to conservation value and Council will look more favourably on joint applications, i.e. with neighbouring properties.

The closing date for submissions is 27th August 2010.

For an application form or for further information please contact Council's Greenweb Officer, Geoff Doret on 9710 0463.

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