The document discusses Community Heritage Grants, which provide funding of up to $15,000 for projects that preserve and provide access to heritage collections of national significance held by community groups. Eligible projects include significance assessments, preservation needs assessments, conservation activities, digitization, and training. The grants aim to help organizations assess and care for important collections. Examples of previously funded projects assessing significant collections held by community organizations are provided.

1. Community
Heritage Grants
2012
Presentation by CHG
Coordinator, Dianne Dahlitz
Securing Funding
Museum & Gallery Services Qld
Atherton & Malanda, 7-8 March 2012

2. What are Community Heritage
Grants?
• Aim to preserve & provide access to
heritage collections of national
significance held by community groups
• Grants of up to $15,000

3. Who can apply?
• A not-for-profit organisation;
• That owns or manages a collection of
national significant material;
• That is accessible to the general public

4. What types of projects receive
funding?
• 2 Types of Project
– 1. Collection Preservation Projects
– 2. Training

5. Collection Preservation Projects
• 1. Significance Assessment
• 2. Preservation Needs Assessment
• 3. Conservation Activities & Collection
Management
– Conservation and preservation activities
– Software
– Digitisation

6. 1. Significance Assessment

7. Significance Criteria
• Historic
• Aesthetic
• Scientific or Research
• Social or Spiritual
• Significance 2.0 - A Guide to Assessing the Significance of Collections (2009) - 2nd
revised edition (online version)
http://www.environment.gov.au/heritage/publications/significance2-0/
• Significance - A Guide to Assessing the Significance of Cultural Heritage Objects and
Collections (2001)
• http://www.collectionsaustralia.net/sector_info_item/5

8. Tips for answering Section 4 –
National Significance
• Make sure your answer refers to the collection material
you are seeking funding for
• Provide as much information about this material as you
can
• Identify rare or unique items
• Detail items about significant Australians
• Relate your answer to the significance criteria
• Attach supporting documents
• Refer to the 2011 Assessment Report on the website

9. 2. Preservation Needs
Assessment
• Stage 2 of the 3 stage process
• Assesses physical condition
• Assesses housing and storage facilities
• Makes recommendations – basis for
further funding applications

10. 3. Conservation Activities &
Collection Management
• Cairns & District
Chinese Ass. – CHG
2008 – Conservation
of Metal Objects

11. Rehousing Collections
• Archival storage materials
• Shelving
• Object cases

12. Archival Storage

13. Digitisation & Software
Digitisation
• Preservation of original materials
• Digital copies management plan
• Outsourcing
Software
• Cataloguing or collection management
• Researched/trialled options

14. Digitisation
• Page turning of rare manuscript during
digitisation

15. 2.Training
• Collection care and handling
• Cataloguing
• Disaster Preparedness
• Collection Management
• Assessing significance
• Partnerships with other groups

16. Care and Handling Training
• Care and handling training workshop

17. What are the assessors looking
for?
• Evidence of national significance
• A clear description of the collection, who
owns it and how it is used
• A project that is feasible & good value for
money with a well supported budget
• Projects that will enhance access to
collections
• Training projects that will reach many
people and collections

18. BUDGET (Section 7.5)
• Important to get this right – just include in the
budget table items relevant to the project for
which you are applying for a grant.
• Standard fees for SA and PNA - $4,000 (plus
travel and accommodation)
• Quotes…if not applying for standard fee, for
purchasing equipment , treatments or training
workshops
• Applicant’s contribution – Cash or Inkind?
• GST – Registered/Not Registered?

19. Assessment Process
• 1. CHG Coordinator
– Confirms eligibility
• 2. Significance Assessor
– National significance
• 3. Preservation Assessor
– Feasibility
– Value for money
• 4. Expert Assessment Panel
• Comments from both assessors
• Overall application

20. What do you get?
• Grant of up to $15,000
• Intensive Preservation workshop in
Canberra (first grant)

21. TIPS TO COMPLETE YOUR
APPLICATION!
• Type your application
• Describe your collection, but be concise –
dot points and lists are good
• Answer all relevant questions
• Attach supporting documents e.g.
previous assessments, photographs,
letters of support
• Sign your application and submit it on time

22. Case Studies
• Innisfail Friends of the Temple (2009)-
Significance Assessment and Preservation
Needs Assessment of the Temple and
See Poy Collection
• Mareeba Heritage Centre - Significance
Assessment (2009) and Preservation
Needs Assessment (2010)

23. Innisfail Friends of the Temple
(2009)

24. Projects
• Significance Assessment & Preservation
Needs Assessment of the Lit Sing Gung
Temple and See Poy Collection
• Quotes, images, letters of support
• Suzanne Gibson (SA)
• Christine Ianna (PNA)

25. Mareeba Heritage Centre
2009 & 2010

26. 2009 Significance Assessment
• Tobacco Industry in North Queensland
1928-2004 Collection.
• Letters of support, quotes and images of
collection items
• Tablelands Research & Consultancy
Service, Atherton conducted the
Assessment
• Final Report Comments

27. 2010 Preservation Needs
Assessment
• Strong Significance Assessment report
• Basis for applying for PNA
• Caroline O’Rorke (Conservation Art
Consultants) conducted the PNA
• Final Report comments: ‘improved
knowledge..collection content…future
activity’

28. Dianne Dahlitz
CHG Coordinator
• 02 6262 1147
• chg@nlagov.au
• www.nla.gov.au/chg