Community Heritage Grants - 2025 Round

The Community Heritage Grants 2025 Round is now closed. The next Round will open in early March 2026.

For more information on the program please read the CHG 2025 Guidelines.

Who can apply for a Community Heritage Grant?

CHG is open to non-profit, incorporated organisations. The program has a strong focus on supporting local groups with limited funding who would benefit from access to professional cultural heritage expertise. Applications from Indigenous and multicultural organisations are encouraged.

Organisations progress through a three-stage journey, over multiple rounds, to learn about their collection, how to care for it, and plan for its future. Projects also aim to build the knowledge and skills of paid and volunteer staff to increase their capacity to share valuable heritage collections with all Australians.

CHG is funded by the Australian Government through the:

• Department of Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development, Communications and the Arts,
• National Library of Australia,
• National Archives of Australia,
• National Film and Sound Archive, and
• National Museum of Australia.

What can be funded by a Community Heritage Grant?

The annual round offers cash grants of up to $20,000. The first two stages support organisations to work with heritage practitioners to:

• Explain the meaning and value of their collections (a significance assessment)
• Outline the condition of their collections and create a plan to manage it (a preservation needs assessment)

In the third and final stage, organisations can apply for funding to:

• Undertake conservation and collection management activities as recommended in the preservation needs assessment

Funding is also available for:

• Collection management training projects

Further details about eligible projects are available in the CHG Guidelines.

All allocations of grants are based on the recommendations of assessors and availability of funds. No applicant can be guaranteed funding nor can any applicant be guaranteed funding to the full amount requested. Funding varies from year to year and it is not possible to fund all worthwhile projects.

More about the Community Heritage Grants program

The following supporting documents are also available:

• Community Heritage Grants webinar and tutorial pages are on the Trove Partner Learning Hub. (Select the 'Login as a Guest' option at the bottom left corner.)  The recording of a live Q&A forum for new applicants, held on 10 April 2025, can be found in the 2025 module under the How to Apply heading.
• New applicants are encouraged to consider whether the organisation, staff/volunteers and collection are ready for a significance assessment. To understand what preparation is required please complete the questionnaire Are You Ready for a Significance Assessment below.
• Project summary documents from previous funding rounds
• Successful applicants will sign a standard grant agreement.  View the CHG Conditions of Grant, 2024 Round below.

Contact the Community Heritage Grants team

For more information or to discuss your application, contact:

CHG Program Team
National Library of Australia
chg@nla.gov.au