Community Heritage Grants Recipients 2018
The Community Heritage Grants (CHG) program provides grants of up to $15,000 to community organisations such as libraries, archives, museums, genealogical and historical societies, multicultural and Indigenous groups. The grants are provided to assist with the preservation of locally owned, but nationally significant collections of materials that are publicly accessible including artefacts, letters, diaries, maps, photographs, and audio visual material.
In 2018, 60 grants were awarded, totalling $367,470.
Australian Capital Territory
Community Heritage Grants Recipients 2016
The Community Heritage Grants (CHG) program provides grants of up to $15,000 to community organisations such as libraries, archives, museums, genealogical and historical societies, multicultural and Indigenous groups. The grants are provided to assist with the preservation of locally owned, but nationally significant collections of materials that are publicly accessible including artefacts, letters, diaries, maps, photographs, and audio visual material.
In 2016, 77 grants were awarded, totalling $415,075.
Australian Capital Territory
Restoration a sign of the times
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KINGSTON Council has approved spending $60,000 to restore an old sign in Mentone.
The Nylex sign at 29 Nepean Highway is in line to be restored. In addition to approving the allocation of $60,000 in ratepayer funding in the 2020/2021 budget for the project, council has also agreed to “make an annual allocation in future operating budgets to support the operational expenses associated with the costs associated with maintaining the sign”.
The funding will be reallocated from savings from other capital works projects in the budget.
A summary provided to Kingston councillors by council officers reads that the sign is “heritage listed in the Kingston Planning Scheme and presents an important signifier of the former industrial use of the subject land.”
The restoration works undertaken by local engineering company Smartstruct Building Contractors were finalised in November last year. Landsborough Museum grants coordinator Rosey Field said the roof and guttering better reflected the heritage values of the building. The roofing material used today is much closer to what would have been used in 1924 when the Chambers opened, Ms Field said. Landsborough Museum roof renovations during construction. The museum is the former council chambers and is listed in the Queensland heritage register as a place of cultural heritage significance. The former Landsborough shire council chambers opened in 1924. It was the first purpose-built council chambers for the Landsborough shire and although the building has been altered and undergone major extensions, the original form is still evident.
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