Grants aim to help record and preserve local history
Community groups and local historians in Broadmeadows and across Victoria have an opportunity to share up to $350,000 to record, share and preserve the state's rich history.
Government Services Minister Danny Pearson said applications are now being invited for the Local History Grants Programme, which provides up to $15,000 for successful projects. He urged people to apply, adding:
In the previous grants programme, a total of 53 groups from communities within Victoria received support for their individual projects. Among them were Deaf Children Australia, which put the funds towards developing a catalogue depicting its history of 157 years.
Care Leavers Australasia put their share of the funding towards an exhibition that detailed stories from care leavers obtained from public records in Geelong institutions, while Victoria's Chinese Australian Family Historians developed an online database that made travel records available to the public.
Printing services have often been enlisted to help produce books on local history. Other successful grant recipients also looked at putting the information online through the use of online oral histories and digitisation projects, walking apps and virtual tours.
Community groups, including schools, historical societies and sports clubs, that are considering embarking on an upcoming anniversary or history project are urged to apply for the grants programme prior to the deadline of midnight on March 9, 2021.
Government Services Minister Danny Pearson said applications are now being invited for the Local History Grants Programme, which provides up to $15,000 for successful projects. He urged people to apply, adding:
“The Local History Grants Programme is all about supporting our local historians and community groups to showcase and share Victoria’s rich history.”
In the previous grants programme, a total of 53 groups from communities within Victoria received support for their individual projects. Among them were Deaf Children Australia, which put the funds towards developing a catalogue depicting its history of 157 years.
Care Leavers Australasia put their share of the funding towards an exhibition that detailed stories from care leavers obtained from public records in Geelong institutions, while Victoria's Chinese Australian Family Historians developed an online database that made travel records available to the public.
Printing services have often been enlisted to help produce books on local history. Other successful grant recipients also looked at putting the information online through the use of online oral histories and digitisation projects, walking apps and virtual tours.
Community groups, including schools, historical societies and sports clubs, that are considering embarking on an upcoming anniversary or history project are urged to apply for the grants programme prior to the deadline of midnight on March 9, 2021.