Heritage Grants
The NT Heritage Grant Program for 2008–09
Organisations or individuals working on projects relating to significant heritage sites may be eligible for a grant.
Grants are available for research, conservation and presentation of significant heritage places and objects having aesthetic, historic, scientific or social significance to the community.
"Place" refers to any part of the cultural and natural environment having a fixed location including:
- natural areas and their flora and fauna;
- architectural and industrial sites and structures;
- Aboriginal and non Aboriginal archaeological sites;
- cultural landscapes and townscapes;
- places of social significance;
- examples of the Territory’s underwater cultural heritage such as shipwrecks and submerged plane wrecks; and
- geological sites.
Guidelines are available to assist you with your application.
Applications for Heritage Grants closed 23 April 2008
Grant Recipients 2008–09
Mr Ted Ling of Canberra: $800 to research the impact of Commonwealth Government policies on the Northern Territory pastoral industry, 1911-1978.
8EAR Community Radio, Nhulunbuy: $4800 to research stories for broadcast about the history of Gove Peninsula.
Mr Dan Jaensch of Adelaide: $1000 to research the history of Northern Territory elections, 1974-2008.
Mr David Bridgman of Darwin: $5500 to research the work of architects who have contributed to the development of Darwin in the second half of the twentieth century.
Mr Robert Levitus of Darwin: $4000 to interview and research Dave Lindner and the environmental history of the South Alligator River wetlands.
Ms Elizabeth Ganter of Darwin: $2500 to research the role and representation of Aboriginal senior officials in the Northern Territory Government.
Ms Bev Phelts of Darwin: $1800 to research tales from the field in Northern Territory Water Resources, 1955-2008.
Ms Helen Jolly of Melbourne: $3600 to research a biography of Charles Winnecke and his botanical endeavours in the Northern Territory.
Mr Nicholas Rochardson of Adelaide: $2000 to research the history of Ti Tree School, 1969-2008.
Ms Susannah Ritchie of Melbourne: $1000 to research the historical importance of Australian Rules football in establishing community within the Darwin area.
Ms Margaret Carew of Ti Tree: $2500 to document historical stories of a group of women in Ti Tree about people and places in their community.
National Pioneer Women’s Hall of Fame of Alice Springs: $3500 to record stories about the women’s section of the Old Alice Springs Gaol for interpretive exhibition.
Mr Rong Fan of Adelaide: $2000 to research Chinese material culture in the Northern Territory in the nineteenth century.
Ms Vikki Riley of Alice Springs: $3000 to research Aboriginal Art and the Holy Image in Catholic churches in the Northern Territory.
Ms Shannon Own and Mr Sean Brandt of Melbourne: $7000 to research and record interviews for an historical television documentary about Territory characters.
Ms Elizabeth Mackinley, Ms Alieta Grimes and Ms Mary Ann Riley of Brisbane and Borroloola: $5000 to record experiences and memories of women in the southwest Gulf Region of the Northern Territory.
