Free Workshops

NRM South have organised some exciting free workshops during November:

Law of the Land – presented by EDO Tas to help you understand Tasmania’s environmental laws. 4^th November – Swansea.
Waterbug Id – 4^th November - Kingston; 12^th November - Otago Bay; 19^th November - South Hobart.

The workshops are all free, and open to anyone in the community to attend, but please RSVP. Further info at Law of the Land - GSBC (1) Waterbug Blitz Training

Bite-sized Grants

** Applications for the current financial year are now open ** 18 schools and community groups received Bite-sized Grants of up to $500 last financial year and turned this small amount of funding (total $8200) into some tremendous environmental projects with estimated in-kind contributions totaling $77,000! A portion of NRM South’s Naturally Inspired Grants budget for community groups is allocated to the Naturally Inspired Bite-Sized program (NIBS), to provide support for small, short-term projects ranging from $200 – $500. Project funds are acquitted within 3 months of receiving the grant money. NIBS grants are available all year round, with no set opening or closing application period. The rolling grants are designed to give groups more opportunity to apply for small amounts of funding when it is needed. There is a fixed amount of funding allocated via these grants each financial year and a group may only receive funding once per financial year. NIBS application form NIBS acquittal form NIBS Guidelines NIBS GRANTS FUNDED TO 30th JUNE 2017 (grant amounts ex GST) Total funding 2016/17 financial year $8244 Bellerive Bluff Land&Coastcare ($420): Working Safely with Heights training Bridgewater/Gagebrook Clean Up Group($452): Clean up tools and equipment Channel Christian School($500): Create and build a natural play space Friends of Freycinet($300): Ongoing weed control in Freycinet NP and reserves Friends of Maatsuyker Island($500): Creation of international signal flags to promote FOMI on-ground conservation projects at public events Friends of Maria Island($320): Ongoing weed control on coastal foreshore Friends of Mount Field ($450): Junee Cave carpark revegetation project Glebe Hill Bushland Reserve Landcare ($375): Howrah Primary – Glebe Hill Bushland Education Excursions Huon Valley Roamers($500): National Tree Day – awareness and tree planting Howrah Beach Childcare Centre ($500): Installation of a fixed rain water collection tank Lauderdale Primary School ($500): Garden Science New Town Primary School ($427): Building the Productive Heart and Wildlands of our Sensory Garden Philippine Australian Community in Tasmania ($500): PACT 40th Anniversary Commemorative Tree Planting Resource Work Cooperative ($500): Reuse Flower Field Reveg The Ridge Landcare Group($500): Revegetate the gully leading up to the Russell Ridge Conservation Area. Sorell Primary School ($500): Native garden creation Southern Beaches Landcare/Coastcare ($500): Southern Beaches Coastcare website development – engaging community in landcare and coastcare Tasmanian Land Conservancy ($500): Five Rivers Sphagnum Bog Restoration Project NIBS GRANTS FUNDED TO 30th JUNE 2016 (grant amounts ex GST) Total funding 2015/16 financial year $7383 Bellerive Primary School ($500): Recycle and Reuse for Renewal Birdlife Tasmania ($500): Enabling community-supported shorebird education year round Catholic Parish of Sandy Bay and Taroona ($359): Native garden rehabilitation Friends of Maatsuyker Island ($500): Printing of Art Card series as a fundraiser for the Friends of Maatsuyker Island Friends of Mt Field Wildcare ($500): Tyenna River Revegetation Friends of Peter Murrell Reserve ($474): Purchasing equipment and herbicide to support monthly working bees Friends of Sandy Bay Rivulet ($500): Reed Planting along the Sandy Bay Rivulet and Community Newsletter Lansdowne Crescent Primary School ($359): Native animal monitoring in school grounds Lewisham Foreshore management association ($450): Removal of remnant tea tree groyne stakes and building rubble along the Lewisham Foreshore MacKillop Catholic College ($492): Tennison Woods EcoCentre Indigenous garden New Norfolk Scout Association ($450): New Norfolk Scouts Environmental Badge Snug Primary School ($500): Bush Tucker Garden Southern Beaches Land & Coastcare ($500): Blackberry control at Jacks Flat stage 2 Tasman Landcare Group ($350): Raising awareness of Landcare and NRM programs in the Tasman Catchment Tasmanian Land Conservancy ($500): Maintaining the natural values of Lutregala Marsh Reserve, Bruny Island Tranmere Clarence Plains Land & Coastcare ($308): Supporting our NI grant project – Buffering the Clarence Plains Saltmarsh NIBS GRANTS FUNDED TO 30th JUNE 2015 (grant amounts ex GST) Total funding 2014/15 financial year $5028 Environmental Defenders Office ($405): Supporting community workshops for the Community Guide to Mining Law Franklin Primary School – Sustainable Garden Group ($498): Development of kitchen garden and garden to plate class program Friends of Coningham NRA ($487): Control of Spanish Heath on Coningham Reserve Friends of Sandy Bay Rivulet ($500): Weed removal and revegetation of Sandy Bay Rivulet Goodwood Community Centre ($500): Goodwood native garden Parkers Beach Coastcare ($500): Ferguson Bay foreshore and access improvement Rosny Montagu Bay Landcare and Coastcare ($488): Vinca control on Rosny Foreshore Reserve Swansea Primary School ($300): Development of kitchen garden to connect students with healthy food and lifestyles Tas Field Naturalists Club ($500): Printing of annual journal The Tasmanian Naturalist. Special edition – NRM in Tas: the role of volunteers, community groups and small projects Taroona High School Association ($350): Native revegetation of the school grounds Taroona Environment Network ($500): App Development for Taroona Coastal Discovery Trail NIBS GRANTS FUNDED TO 30th JUNE 2014 (grant amounts ex GST) Total funding 2013/14 financial year $5611 Albuera Street Primary School ($500): Asian Garden project, growing edible plants and strengthening linkages with the Asian culture Bellerive Primary School ($500): Establishing a sustainable kitchen garden Catholic Parish of Sandy Bay and Taroona ($499): Establishing a raised native garden bed at the church grounds Friends of Mount Field Wildcare ($500): Continuing native revegation along Tyenna River Friends of Huon Island ($465): Rehabilitating Huon Island foreshore Friends of Freycinet Wildcare Group ($350): Purchasing herbicides for use in working bees around Freycinet National Park and reserves Franklin Landcare Group ($380): Mulching native garden along boardwalk Greening Australia Tasmania ($500): Assisting with set-up costs for a plant nursery supporting landscape restoration projects Friends of Woodvine Reserve ($290): Purchasing herbicides for ongoing weed control as part of their weed management plan Mount Stuart Primary School ($472): Establishing a herb garden as part of the “Staying Alive” science unit Phoenix Children Services ($500): Establishing an interactive garden Taroona Environment Network ($269):Website upgrades supporting the Taroona Coastal Discovery Trail Swansea Primary School ($436): Worm farm and resources as part of a waste reduction and sustainability project

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