Funding projects that support Australia’s National Heritage listed sites

You are not eligible to apply if you are:

• an unincorporated association
• trust (however, an incorporated trustee may apply on behalf of a trust)
• a non-corporate Commonwealth entity.

We assess your application against the eligibility criteria and then against the assessment criteria. Only eligible applications will proceed to the assessment stage.

The amount of detail and supporting evidence you provide in your application should be relative to the project size, complexity and grant amount requested. You should define, quantify and provide evidence to support your answers. The sample application form displays character limits.

The Minister will make the final decision.

To be competitive you must score highly, at least 60% against all of the assessment criteria.

• Assessment criterion 1 The extent that your project maintains, protects, conserves and improves access to places on the National Heritage list (40 points)
• Assessment criterion 2 Capacity, capability and resources to deliver the project (30 points)
• Assessment criterion 3 Impact of grant funding on your project (30 points)

If your application is successful, you’ll receive a written offer. If you are unsuccessful, we’ll notify you in writing and give you the chance to discuss the outcome with us.

Successful applicants must enter into a grant agreement with the Commonwealth. The grant agreement will specify the reporting requirements, payment schedule and milestones necessary to receive payments.

We’ll make the first payment when the grant agreement is executed. We’ll make subsequent payments after we have received and accepted the required report. We set aside a minimum of 10% of the total grant funding for the final payment. We’ll pay this when you submit a satisfactory end of project report.

Payments will be made by direct credit into a nominated bank account.