National Library of Australia - Gateways

ISSN ISSN 1443-0568 | no. 66 | December 2003


Community Heritage Grants
A Decade of Funding Preservation Projects

The tenth anniversary of the Community Heritage Grants program was marked recently by the announcement that over one million dollars in funding had now been distributed under the program.

At a ceremony held at the National Library on 12 November the Minister for the Arts and Sport, Senator Rod Kemp, officially announced the milestone as he presented awards to this year’s 50 successful grant recipients.

Representatives from a broad range of community organisations throughout Australia had travelled to Canberra to attend the function and to share in a record annual amount of nearly $220 000 to fund projects aimed at preserving documentary heritage items in their collections. Two hundred and ninety-five projects have benefited from funding under the program since 1994. This year the projects included archival storage materials for the Harold Larwood collection at the Bradman Museum in Bowral, the digitisation of the audio-visual collection of the Kanamkek Yile Ngala Museum at Wadeye (Port Keats) in the Northern Territory, and an assessment of the preservation needs of the film collection of the TAA/Australian Airlines Museum in Melbourne.

Each representative also attended two days of workshops at the National Library and at the National Archives of Australia to gain knowledge on collection preservation and significance.

This year’s grants were jointly funded and supported by the National Library, the National Archives of Australia, the Department of Communications, Information Technology and the Arts, the Department of Immigration and Multicultural and Indigenous Affairs, and the Australian Film Commission.

2003 Community Heritage Grant recipients
2003 Community Heritage Grant recipients

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