Dollar for dollar grants from $25,000 up to $200,000

Minimum project value $50,000

Applications have now closed for 2011-13 NSW Heritage Grants Program.

All Hunter Region owners and managers of State Heritage Register and state significant heritage items.

However you CAN NOT apply for funding if you are a state government agency (but may be involved as a project partner)

Hunter Region comprises the following local government areas

• Cessnock
• Dungog
• Greater Taree
• Great Lakes
• Lake Macquarie
• Maitland
• Muswellbrook
• Newcastle City
• Port Stephens
• Singleton
• Upper Hunter

For projects located in the Hunter Region

• You can only apply for works project funding through the Hunter Region Heritage Grants Works programs.
• The maximum funding available per heritage item is $200,000

• Buildings
• Cemeteries
• Industrial sites
• Landscapes
• Archaeology
• Maritime Archaeology
• Moveable items
• Pipe organs
• Stained glass

• The State Heritage Register, or
• State significant heritage items that are either:
  • Listed as a state significant heritage item in your Local Environmental Plan, or
  • Supported by your local council's heritage advisor or heritage specialist as being of state heritage significance

Projects for

• Physical conservation works
• State Heritage Register minimum maintenance works
• Fire, service and access upgrades for Building Code Australia compliance for ongoing use and adaptive reuse

• A local heritage item listed on your council's local environmental plan. You can approach your local council for assistance through your local heritage fund. Allocation of these funds is at council's discretion and are generally small dollar for dollar grants up to $10,000
• The total project value ex GST is less than $50,000
• No retrospective funding for completed projects

• Enhance State Heritage Register items
• Mining industrial heritage
• Rural properties including homestead precincts, outbuilding groups, gardens and pastoral/ grazing cultural landscapes
• Remediation of heritage buildings and landscapes affected by mining eg building subsidence and physical damage, degradation of cultural and natural landscapes
• Adaptive reuse of heritage buildings and landscapes affected by mining

• New buildings
• Routine maintenance (eg lawn mowing, gutter cleaning, carpet cleaning, etc)
• Projects where adequate funding is available from the applicant or other sources
• New commemorative monuments or works
• Purchase of heritage buildings
• Relocation of buildings or work to relocated buildings
• Private headstones, unless there is no possibility of descendent support for the project
• Flood lighting of heritage buildings
• Purchase of equipment

• Sustainable long term heritage benefits
• Public benefit and enjoyment
• Innovation and leadership
• Capacity and commitment to undertake and complete the project
• Funding equity and cost effectiveness

You must discuss your project with the Heritage Branch

General funding inquiries, contact Victoria Throp victoria.throp@heritage.nsw.gov.au, 02 9873 8577 or one of the following specialist Heritage Officers

Archaeological or industrial heritage, contact Siobhan Lavelle siobhan.lavelle@heritage.nsw.gov.au or 02 9873 8546

Maritime archaeological heritage, contact Sarah Ward sarah.ward@heritage.nsw.gov.au or 02 9873 8533

20th Century buildings, contact Anne Higham at the Australian Institute of Architects, anneh@raia.com.au or 02 9356 2955

Heritage buildings, contact Shikha Jhaldiyal jhaldiyal@heritage.nsw.gov.au 02 9873 8545 (Mon, Wed & Thurs) or Miriam Stacy email miriam.stacy@heritage.nsw.gov.au or 02 9873 8576

We will acknowledge receipt of your application by auto reply email

We will assess your application for eligibility over the coming weeks. If ineligible, we will return it to you.

This program is competitively bid. Applicants must complete a project application and answer all of the questions. In assessing your application, the quality and clarity of information provided will be taken into account.

We may contact you to discuss your project or to request additional information.

We respect your confidentiality and will only use this information in relation to your project application.

Eligible project applications are then assessed by Heritage Branch specialists

The project assessments are forwarded to the Heritage Council's Heritage Grants panel.

The Heritage Council then makes recommendations for project funding approval to the Minister for Planning

If your funding application is successful, a funding offer and contract will be sent to you after March 2011 On your acceptance of this funding offer, funding will commence on 1 July 2011

We will advise unsuccessful applicants by email after March 2011

Applicants must complete 50% of their project and claim 50% of the total project funding in year 1 and the remaining 50% of the project funding in year 2

The Heritage Branch considers the full project cost to be the GST exclusive amount.

If you are GST registered and lodge BAS statements, the Branch is required to pay you an additional 10% GST component on the approved grant amount. It is your responsibility to include the Heritage Branch's 10% GST component in your BAS statements.

If you are not GST registered, the Branch does not add an extra 10% in our payment to you.

Email your project application and attached images and/or other information to

heritagegrantapplications@heritage.nsw.gov.au

Please keep email attachments to a minimum and DON'T send twice!!!

2011-13 NSW Heritage Grants and Hunter Region Heritage Grants are targeted funding programs. Projects must meet eligibility criteria, program priorities and common selection criteria. However in exceptional circumstances, the Heritage Branch, Department of Planning reserves the right to recommend funding for projects that may not fully meet the program selection criteria, or the transfer of your application to another funding program, if deemed appropriate

Minimum Standards of Maintenance and Repair

Heritage Consultants Directory

A dedicated Managing your project web page is provided to assist you with your project.

The page contains documents you will need to undertake your project and to claim your grant funding.

Note: This information is provided for projects that have been approved for funding and have received and accepted a funding contract.