Keep tabs on current grants, fellowships, awards and prizes that might help you realise your project or support your business.
Victorian GRANTS
PROV Local History Grants. Applications are now open for the 2020-2021 Round of the Local History Grants Program. The Local History Grants Program encourages and fosters community activities that preserve, record and share the local, social and community history of Victoria and Victorians. Applications close midnight, Tuesday 9 March 2021.
Applications for Round 6 of the Victorian Government’s competitive community Living Heritage Grants Program will open on 1 February 2021 and close on 26 March 2021. Eligible applicants may apply for an amount between $20,000 and $200,000 per project, to fund conservation works to ‘at risk’ places and objects included on the Victorian Heritage Register.
Local government quick response and creative industry grants
Alpine Shire, Ballarat City, Banyule, Baw Baw Shire, Bayside, Boroondara, Brimbank, Casey, Darebin, Frankston, Glen Eira, Golden Plains Shire, Greater Bendigo City, Greater Dandenong, Greater Geelong, Hepburn Shire, Hindmarsh Shire, Hobsons Bay, Horsham Rural City, Hume, Indigo Shire, Knox, Macedon Ranges Shire, Manningham, Maribyrnong, Maroondah, Melbourne City, Melton, Mildura Rural, Mitchell, Monash, Moonee Valley, Moorabool, Moreland, Mornington Peninsula, Mount Alexander, Nillumbik, Port Phillip, South Gippsland Shire, Stonnington, Swan Hill Rural City, Whitehorse, Whittlesea, Wyndham, Yarra, Yarra Ranges
Tasmanian grants
Creative Hobart Grants support a vision that recognises cultural development and the creative industries. They provide a real opportunity to strengthen community wellbeing, create a rich sense of place, and contribute to economic viability. Multiple funding streams and programs.
Federal Grants
Australian Army History Research Grants Scheme, Department of Defence. Established in 1993, the Australian Army History Research Grants Scheme supports and encourages research into the Australian Army’s history and development both on operations and during peace. The Scheme is open to both academic and non-academic researchers, and individual grants are up to a maximum of $15,000.00 for one year and up to $45,000 for three years. Applications close 5:00pm (ACT local time), 5 March 2021.
2021 NAIDOC Local Grants, National Indigenous Australians Agency. The 2021 NAIDOC Local Grants funding round aims to support activities being held during NAIDOC Week 2021 (4-11 July) that celebrate Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander histories, cultures, achievements and continuing contributions to our country and society. Activities should align with the National NAIDOC Theme for 2021, ‘Heal Country’. This grant round provides funding to organisations to contribute to the costs of local and regional NAIDOC activities across Australia. Applications close 8:00pm (ACT local time), 15 March 2021.
Discovery Indigenous for funding commencing in 2022, Australian Research Council. The Discovery Indigenous scheme provides grant funding to support research projects led by an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander researcher.
The Discovery Indigenous scheme objectives are to:
• support excellent basic and applied research and research training by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander researchers as individuals and as teams;
• support national and international research collaboration;
• enhance the scale and focus of research in Australian Government priority areas; and
• support and retain established Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander researchers in higher education institutions.
The intended outcomes of the Discovery Indigenous scheme are:
• expanded knowledge base and research capacity in Australia; and
• economic, commercial, environmental, social and/or cultural benefits for Australia.
Closes 5:00pm (ACT local time), 17 March 2021.
The Australian Government International Exhibitions Insurance (AGIEI) program is a funding program designed to offset insurance costs for touring major exhibitions of cultural material. Generally, these exhibitions include works from international collections. The program aims to assist cultural institutions to provide access to significant cultural material the Australian public would not otherwise have an opportunity to access. By providing assistance with insurance costs, the Australian Government is able to encourage and support the staging of major exhibitions drawn from some of the world’s most historically significant and culturally rich collections. Closes 5:00pm (ACT local time), 26 March 2021.
The COVID-19 Arts Sustainability Fund aims to provide ‘last resort’ funding assistance to significant Australian Government-funded arts organisations that are assessed to be at imminent risk of insolvency as a direct result of COVID-19, having taken all reasonable action to maintain their financial position. The program is intended to assist by providing the necessary finance to plan a pathway for recovery from the effects of COVID-19. This will support the employment of workers (including in interdependent industries such as hospitality, retail, accommodation, transport and freight) and contribute to rebuilding Australia’s economy, as well as enhancing community wellbeing and access to cultural experiences across Australia. Closes 12:00pm AEST (Canberra time) on 31 March 2021.
Restart Investment to Sustain and Expand (RISE) Fund aims to support the arts and entertainment sector to reactivate, this program targets funding towards sector organisations who are seeking to restart, re-imagine or create new activities. The program is intended to assist by providing finance to assist presentation of new or re-shaped cultural and creative activities and events. Opens 9.00am AEST (Canberra time) 31 August 2020 Closes 11.30pm AEST (Canberra time) on 31 May 2021 at the latest, subject to allocation of funds.
The Tackling Tough Times Together grant program helps communities access the resources they need to support one another through the ongoing effects of the drought. Grants are available for a broad range of grassroots, community-led initiatives that directly and clearly benefit local communities. Applications are accepted on an ongoing basis and assessed quarterly. Applications due Thursday 22 October 2021.
Saluting Their Service Commemorative Grants Program, Department of Veterans' Affairs. The Australian Government is inviting applications through an open competitive process to apply for grant funding under the Saluting Their Service Commemorative Grants Program (the program). The program is designed to preserve Australia’s wartime heritage; involve people around the country in a wide range of projects and activities that highlight the service and sacrifice of Australia’s service personnel in wars, conflicts and peace operations; and promote appreciation and understanding of the experiences of service and the roles that those who served have played in shaping the nation.
There are 2 categories of grants available:
• Community Grants (STS-CG)
• Major Grants (STS-MG)
Assessment and notification of outcomes will be divided into 3 batches. The table below identifies the cut-off dates for all 3 batches:
Batch Applications included in batch
1 11:00 PM AEST on 10 June 2021.
2 11:00 PM AEDT on 7 October 2021.
3 11:00 PM AEDT on 8 February 2022.
OTHER GRANTS
Make It Happen - Hobsons Bay Recovery and Reconnection Grants. Do you have ideas and initiatives which can help contribute to recovery or reconnection in our community? Is your group or organisation looking at innovative ways to recover and reconnect? The Hobsons Bay Recovery and Reconnection grants program provides funding to support our community to ‘make things happen’ as we learn about, work through and adapt to the impacts experienced in our city as a result of COVID-19.
Make It Happen - Hobsons Bay Recovery and Reconnection Grants can provide support to enable activities, projects, programs, events and resources across all sectors including environment, sustainability, projects by and for young people, sport and recreation, arts and culture, health and wellbeing, multicultural, technology, community and neighbourhood development.
If your group or organisation is active or planning to be active, providing benefits to our community and city, and needs support to make good things happen, contact a Council Officer to discuss your ideas.
•Recovery and Reconnection funding round is open for applications from 20 November 2020 with short (monthly) assessment times in place until May 2021.
•It supports activities and programs that take place until 30 June 2022.
•Applications can be made for funding amounts between $500 and $25,000.
•The Recovery and Reconnection Round will replace and incorporate the Hobsons Bay Community Grants, Environmental Grants, Events and Festivals and Quick Response Grants Funding for 2020-21.
•$500,000 is allocated to the round through Council’s COVID-19 Community Support Package 3
Make It Happen - Recovery and Reconnection is a newly designed program. As COVID-19 is creating a changing environment, COVID response and recovery needs may also rapidly evolve. The program and priorities may be adjusted in response to changing community need and feedback.
The first Grant Information and Writing Workshop will be held online via zoom on Monday 7 December from 6pm to 8.30pm, further sessions will follow. Register here by Sunday 6 December 5pm.
Applicants can apply now. There will be six rounds of funding. Applications are assessed monthly and funds released one month after each round closes. Applications close end of May 2021 or earlier if funds are exhausted.
The English-Speaking Union (Victoria Branch) offers grants for projects that contribute to the appreciation and promotion of the heritage, culture, identity and fellowship of the English-speaking peoples. Minor Project Grants are offered three times per year of up to $2,000 each, for a project that contributes to the appreciation and promotion of the heritage, culture, identity and fellowship of the English-speaking peoples. Closing dates: 31 March, 31 July, 15 December in the year of application. Major Project Grants are grants of up to $10,000 for a project that contributes to the appreciation and promotion of the heritage, culture, identity and fellowship of the English-speaking peoples. Closing date: 15 March in the year of application
Prizes & Awards
The AIATSIS Stanner Award is presented biennially to the best academic manuscript written by an Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander author. The Award is open to all Indigenous authors, scholars and academics, however submissions must not be under consideration by other publishers or simultaneously entered in to other awards, and no more than twenty per cent of the submission previously published. Please read the conditions of entry carefully before considering submitting.
The prize
A glass sculpture by award-winning artist Jenni Kemarre Martiniello,
$5000 prize money,
mentoring and editorial support (up to 50 hours) to bring the manuscript to a publishable standard,
publication of the manuscript by Aboriginal Studies Press, and
out-of-pocket expenses up to $500.
Entries Close: 28 February 2021.
History Council of Victoria, Jane Hansen Prize for History Advocacy. At the conclusion of the HCV’s recent Annual Lecture, our Chair, Professor Peter McPhee AM, announced the HCV’s establishment of the Jane Hansen Prize for History Advocacy. This Prize recognises the efforts of a group or individual that has advocated for the value of history (of any society and/or period), the work of historians and/or the importance of a history education. The Prize is named in honour of Ms Jane Hansen AO whose passion for history and its advocacy is widely acknowledged. Through the Hansen Little Foundation, which aims to create a legacy of significant and positive change that inspires and enables Australians, Ms Hansen has provided generous philanthropic support for history and historians in a number of organisations. Her unsolicited donation to the HCV in 2020 inspired the Board to create this Prize. We’ll issue a call for nominations for the Prize in early 2021 and plan to announce the inaugural winner in conjunction with our Annual Lecture next October.
Fellowships and SCholarships
The Jesse Cox Audio Fellowship is a $10,000 cash fellowship, awarded annually to an Australian resident pushing innovative audio storytelling. This fellowship will provide a career-defining opportunity for a mid-tier practitioner to accelerate their career.
The fellowship has been established in honour of Jesse Cox. It will continue Jesse’s determination to strengthen the Australian audio community, to push audio storytelling in form, to produce work that can be shared with a public audience and to amplify underrepresented voices. Applications close midnight, Sunday 4th March 2021.
Graduate Women Victoria has announced a 2021 Scholarship program for women enrolled in universities in Victoria enrolled in the below courses:
PhD: Scholarships and Bursaries
Masters Coursework or Masters Extended or Masters Research
Master of Education/Teaching Scholarship and a Bursary for students preparing to teach STEM
Fourth Year Honours in Arts
Scholarship applications open each year in early December, with a closing date of 31 March in the following year. See here for list of scholarships and bursaries offered in 2021: GWV scholarship list 2021.
The Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities (located within the University of Edinburgh) invites Fellowship applications for a three-year project exploring topics centred on decoloniality. The project will include three annual conferences, exhibitions, and a major publication. Stipends are offered, and there are provisions for hybrid/remote Fellowships for applicants unable to travel to Edinburgh. Applications are open to scholars in all areas of the arts, humanities and social sciences. See the website for more details. Project proposals from mid-career and senior scholars due February 2021. Project proposals from postdoctoral and ECR scholars due April 2021.
FUNDING FOR THOSE IN FINANCIAL DIFFICULTY
PHA (Vic & Tas) Pay it Forward programme. If you or your household has been affected by the pandemic and you are concerned about being able to pay your PHA (Vic & Tas) membership fees, make sure you apply for the Pay it Forward programme. For more information about the programme see the membership only section of the PHA (Vic & Tas) website. Contact Amanda at amanda_lourie@hotmail.com if you have any questions.
Emergency Fund for Precarious Historians (Australia). This is a mutual aid scheme to assist precarious historians who have been affected by COVID19 – through having work or contracts cancelled, through getting sick or caring for someone who is, through quarantine, shutdowns or border closures, and so on. All funds have been donated by securely employed historians. The funds will be distributed by a committee of historians who are themselves members of the precariat. Applicants can ask for grants of up to $1000.
The Writers Benevolent Fund provides assistance to authors finding themselves in financial difficulties. For more information or to apply, follow this link.
