MSS are seeking applications for funding for projects that support communities as they attempt to heal and grow in the aftermath of these challenges with funding of up to to $4,000 available for:
- Projects that promote environmental rehabilitation and restoration to rectify the impacts of recent fires, floods or drought. These projects may heal the land in holistic ways, promote community relationships and/or encourage the intergenerational sharing of knowledge and skills
- Community-focused projects that build strong and resilient communities, encourage community re-connection and healing post-pandemic and foster indigenous identity and cultural connections.
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Eligible Projects
- Environmental/ecological initiatives that:
- Promote environmental rehabilitation and restoration to rectify the impacts of recent fire, flood or drought
- Support healing the land in holistic ways
- Encourage connection with the land
- Foster community relationships through practical projects that improve the local environment
- Support the intergenerational exchange of knowledge and skills for the sustainable management of land into the future
- Increase opportunities for people to develop leadership or other practical skills
- Initiatives that encourage community connections that:
- Reduce isolation and loneliness and promote connectivity in the wake of the Covid19 pandemic and/or recent fires/floods/drought
- Foster Indigenous identity and cultural connections through sharing knowledge, skills or story
- Encourage partnerships between individuals, groups and/or organisations
Build strong and resilient communities - Provide opportunities for program participants to develop leadership or other personal or community-building skills
Environmental/ecological Projects may include, but are not limited to:
- Community partnerships to improve land health and increase local land management knowledge
- Revegetation initiatives
- Grasslands restoration
- Cultural fire management
- Carbon capture
- Bolstering soil fertility
- Sustainability expos
- Education and training sessions
Community Connection Projects may include, but are not limited to:
- Workshops, events, or expos
- Programs for vulnerable communities
- Well-being programs
- Training programs
Past Recipients
As always we strongly recommend you review some of the previously funded programs for ideas for your organisation to consider.
Visit the Application Page (linked below) and then scroll down to the Success Stories.
Hover your mouse over the image and you’ll see little arrows appear that allow you to scroll through some highlighted projects that were funded in previous rounds.
Then click on the Read More buttons to read more about each individual project.
You can read about the 42 programs that shared in over $110,000 of funding in 2022 by clicking below:
read 2022 small grants program summary
and in 2021, 43 projects across Australia shared in $87,521 of funding…
read 2021 small grants program summary »
Apply for Highways and Byways – Healing the Land, Healing Ourselves, Together (February 2023)
You can apply ONLINE OR via completed application form which can be emailed or posted. We recommend using the Online Portal
Applications open on February 1, 2023 and close March 15, 2023.
Successful applicants will be notified in writing in May 2023.
apply for highways and byways – healing the land, healing ourselves, together »