To provide up to $10,000 for local community projects in the Murrumbidgee catchment.

• The Murrumbidgee Community Partnerships Project has 3 objectives:
  To provide an opportunity and means for community groups to undertake small on-ground projects tackling important local NRM issues
• To increase community confidence and ability to adopt natural resource management (NRM) and promote shared learning and decision making leading to greater community ownership of NRM in the catchment.
• To assist community groups to move towards effective engagement in broader regional approaches to natural resource management.

Funding of up to $10,000 (GST inclusive) per project is available to successful applicants under the Murrumbidgee Community Partnerships project.

What types of projects will be considered for funding?

Your project will need to help achieve one or more of the Murrumbidgee CMAs areas of activity:

• To increase the community’s involvement in and capacity to undertake natural resource management practices
• To protect and improve the biodiversity of the catchment and to restore a balance to the catchments ecosystems
• To improve river and tributary health through improvements in riparian and aquatic habitat and ecological processes
• To promote biological diversity within soils, conserve ecosystems and improve the profitability of industries supported by soils;

Projects must fall within the Murrumbidgee Community Partnerships eligible activities:
1. Enhancing the capacity of natural resource managers to contribute to regionally relevant natural resource management
2. Encouraging and supporting natural resource decisions that improve or maintain economic sustainability and social well-being.
3. Protecting and restoring native vegetation for improvement in condition
4. Protecting and restoring habitat for threatened species, populations and ecological communities
5. Restricting the distribution of priority environmental pest animals
6. Preventing or controlling the introduction and spread of environmental weeds
7. Managing for an improvement in the condition of riverine ecosystems
8. Managing groundwater systems to support ecosystems and designated beneficial uses.
9. Improving the condition of wetlands
10. Improving soil condition
11. Increasing the area of land that is managed within its capability

Who can apply?

To be eligible to apply for funding you must be:

• A community group who is either incorporated, or who can partner with an incorporated entity; and 
• A community group who has the majority of their group members within the Murrumbidgee catchment; and 
• If the community group is proposing to conduct on-ground activities, these on-ground activities must be undertaken in the Murrumbidgee catchment.

How many applications?

Only one application per community group can be submitted.

Please ensure you read the Guidelines carefully.

Applications have now closed.

For further information please contact:

Louise Hufton (Natural Resource Officer), Harden, 02 6386 3954