Further information: www.environment.nsw.gov.au/heritage-near-me
To contact the Heritage Near Me team: Email: [email protected] Phone +612 9873 8544
Protect, share & celebrate our local heritage
Every effort has been made to ensure that the information in this document is accurate at the time of publication. However, as appropriate, readers should obtain independent advice before making any decision based on this information. Cover photography:Aboriginal rock art, Mutawintji Historic Site. Photo: Office of Environment and Heritage Photography inside brochure (left to right): Trial Bay Gaol, Arakoon (D Finnegan/OEH), Aboriginal scarred canoe tree at Broulee (John Spencer/OEH), Ship wreck of the SS Minmi Cape Banks area Kamay Botany Bay National Park (Andrew Richards/OEH), Flowerdale Lagoon, Wagga Wagga (John Spencer/OEH) Published by Office of Environment and Heritage 59 Goulburn Street, Sydney NSW 2000 PO Box A290, Sydney South NSW 1232 Phone: +61 2 9995 5000 (switchboard) Email: [email protected] Website: www.environment.nsw.gov.au ISBN 978-1-76039-492-1 October 2016 OEH 2016/0553 Support for local heritage
Heritage Near Me is a program from • development opportunities enable communities The Heritage Near Me Incentives program Heritage Management System to promote and activate their local heritage includes three new grant streams: NSW Office of the Environment and The Heritage Management System is a two-year • work in partnership with communities and Heritage (OEH) that helps NSW 1. Heritage Activation Grants: The Heritage technology project that will change the way councils to build sustainable futures for Activation Grants support projects that users’ access heritage information. The System communities to protect, share and local heritage. celebrate their local heritage. actively increase community interaction and will bring together three heritage databases A series of Heritage Near Me Roadshow events participation with local heritage. Items must (Aboriginal, Environmental and Maritime) into The program has been developed to address an will be held across NSW each year. The events be publicly accessible on a regular basis. the one place online and enable this information identified gap in current heritage programs across will highlight the broad range of local heritage to be interrogated spatially, on a map. 2. Local Heritage Grants: The Local Heritage NSW. The Heritage Near Me team are working found across NSW and encourage communities Grants assist in developing community closely with local government, industry and to protect, share and celebrate their local heritage. priorities for local heritage by providing Heritage Near Me Web App organisations to raise community awareness These events will involve public access to the support for collaborative solutions through of their local heritage. Heritage Roadshow team, local and OEH planning Heritage Near Me partnered with Code for community-based projects and technical and heritage advisors at a ‘pop up shopfront’. Australia to create a digital platform to share expertise. Heritage Near Me Roadshow The Roadshow team will work in partnership with the diverse heritage stories of NSW. communities and councils to build sustainable 3. Heritage Green Energy Grants: The Heritage Heritage Near Me has a dedicated Roadshow The Heritage Near Me web app features and futures for local heritage. Green Energy Grants support projects that team working across New South Wales with local shares local heritage stories, which will highlight increase the energy efficiency of local heritage government, heritage owners and managers and hidden histories. These stories promote an items while conserving their heritage values. the broader community to empower and support Incentives program understanding of the importance of local heritage, This funding program complements the OEH complementing the information about local local decision-making in relation to heritage. The Heritage Near Me Incentives program provides Energy Saver program. All applicants must heritage in the NSW State Heritage Inventory funding opportunities for local heritage items and The multi-skilled, highly mobile Heritage have completed a business audit or training Database: http://www.environment.nsw.gov.au/ projects that are not supported under existing Roadshow team will: through the OEH Energy Efficient Business heritageapp/heritagesearch.aspx heritage programs in NSW. The Heritage Near program. The Heritage Green Energy Grant • encourage communities to embrace their Me Incentives program has $16 million available assists in implementing the measures identified The web app project provides new opportunities local heritage through regional events in funding over three years. Applications will in the business audit or training. for community members to engage with local and local projects only be accepted from owners or managers heritage items through the use of digital • assist in the coordination of training of items that are listed on the local council’s technology. These include video stories, images, and skill Local Environmental Plan as an item of heritage maps and virtual tours. significance. Items can be a place, precinct, building, work, relic or moveable object.
03 Office of Environment & Heritage Heritage Near Me 04 Support for local heritage
Heritage Near Me is a program from • development opportunities enable communities The Heritage Near Me Incentives program Heritage Management System to promote and activate their local heritage includes three new grant streams: NSW Office of the Environment and The Heritage Management System is a two-year • work in partnership with communities and Heritage (OEH) that helps NSW 1. Heritage Activation Grants: The Heritage technology project that will change the way councils to build sustainable futures for Activation Grants support projects that users’ access heritage information. The System communities to protect, share and local heritage. celebrate their local heritage. actively increase community interaction and will bring together three heritage databases A series of Heritage Near Me Roadshow events participation with local heritage. Items must (Aboriginal, Environmental and Maritime) into The program has been developed to address an will be held across NSW each year. The events be publicly accessible on a regular basis. the one place online and enable this information identified gap in current heritage programs across will highlight the broad range of local heritage to be interrogated spatially, on a map. 2. Local Heritage Grants: The Local Heritage NSW. The Heritage Near Me team are working found across NSW and encourage communities Grants assist in developing community closely with local government, industry and to protect, share and celebrate their local heritage. priorities for local heritage by providing Heritage Near Me Web App organisations to raise community awareness These events will involve public access to the support for collaborative solutions through of their local heritage. Heritage Roadshow team, local and OEH planning Heritage Near Me partnered with Code for community-based projects and technical and heritage advisors at a ‘pop up shopfront’. Australia to create a digital platform to share expertise. Heritage Near Me Roadshow The Roadshow team will work in partnership with the diverse heritage stories of NSW. communities and councils to build sustainable 3. Heritage Green Energy Grants: The Heritage Heritage Near Me has a dedicated Roadshow The Heritage Near Me web app features and futures for local heritage. Green Energy Grants support projects that team working across New South Wales with local shares local heritage stories, which will highlight increase the energy efficiency of local heritage government, heritage owners and managers and hidden histories. These stories promote an items while conserving their heritage values. the broader community to empower and support Incentives program understanding of the importance of local heritage, This funding program complements the OEH complementing the information about local local decision-making in relation to heritage. The Heritage Near Me Incentives program provides Energy Saver program. All applicants must heritage in the NSW State Heritage Inventory funding opportunities for local heritage items and The multi-skilled, highly mobile Heritage have completed a business audit or training Database: http://www.environment.nsw.gov.au/ projects that are not supported under existing Roadshow team will: through the OEH Energy Efficient Business heritageapp/heritagesearch.aspx heritage programs in NSW. The Heritage Near program. The Heritage Green Energy Grant • encourage communities to embrace their Me Incentives program has $16 million available assists in implementing the measures identified The web app project provides new opportunities local heritage through regional events in funding over three years. Applications will in the business audit or training. for community members to engage with local and local projects only be accepted from owners or managers heritage items through the use of digital • assist in the coordination of training of items that are listed on the local council’s technology. These include video stories, images, and skill Local Environmental Plan as an item of heritage maps and virtual tours. significance. Items can be a place, precinct, building, work, relic or moveable object.
03 Office of Environment & Heritage Heritage Near Me 04 Further information: www.environment.nsw.gov.au/heritage-near-me
To contact the Heritage Near Me team: Email: [email protected] Phone +612 9873 8544
Protect, share & celebrate our local heritage
Every effort has been made to ensure that the information in this document is accurate at the time of publication. However, as appropriate, readers should obtain independent advice before making any decision based on this information. Cover photography:Aboriginal rock art, Mutawintji Historic Site. Photo: Office of Environment and Heritage Photography inside brochure (left to right): Trial Bay Gaol, Arakoon (D Finnegan/OEH), Aboriginal scarred canoe tree at Broulee (John Spencer/OEH), Ship wreck of the SS Minmi Cape Banks area Kamay Botany Bay National Park (Andrew Richards/OEH), Flowerdale Lagoon, Wagga Wagga (John Spencer/OEH) Published by Office of Environment and Heritage 59 Goulburn Street, Sydney NSW 2000 PO Box A290, Sydney South NSW 1232 Phone: +61 2 9995 5000 (switchboard) Email: [email protected] Website: www.environment.nsw.gov.au ISBN 978-1-76039-492-1 October 2016 OEH 2016/0553