Coastal Grants

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Find out how to apply and who has been awarded a Coastal Grant

The Great Ocean Road Coast Committee provides $10,000 in grant funds each year towards approved environmental activities in coastal areas managed by the Committee. The funds are made available twice a year through the existing Community Grants program run by Surf Coast Shire.
 
There are many committed individuals and groups along the coast who invest considerable effort, mainly on a volunteer basis, to help look after the coast.
 
These grants support community initiatives that help look after our precious coast.
 
Priorities for the coastal grants are based on the Committee’s Environment and Management Plan [more], which has objectives focusing on protecting natural and cultural values, minimising the impacts of recreation and development, and increasing community involvement and appreciation.
 
The coastal grants could be used for a range of initiatives – for example, to undertake a weed control or revegetation project; for an education project involving local schools; to improve a recreational facility along the coast; to support a coastal related event or initiative. In previous rounds, grants have been provided for a wide range of activities such as tool purchasing, cigarette butt bins and community education.
 
All projects must have a coastal focus and be related to the stretch of coastline that is managed by the Committee between Torquay and Lorne.
 

As the latest round was undersubscribed, groups requiring funding for environmental projects are encouraged to keep an eye out for future rounds. The next round is due to be advertised in April 2009. The application process is relatively simple.

 

For more information, contact our Coastal Projects Coordinator Mike Bodsworth on telephone 5220 5028.

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2008 Grant Recipients

Lorne-Aireys Inlet P-12 College was granted $1,000 to help send a group of students to the International Youth Coastal Conference in Townsville in October 2008. As ambassadors for the Surf Coast, the students' presentation on the Weedy Seadragon (Victoria's marine emblem) really put our region on the map. More than 500 delegates signed the 'Weedy Wonder' surfboard, which is now destined for a new career on the international conference circuit. The students also learned about what other schools and communities around Australia are doing to care for their local environments. Since returning, the students have started to formulate an action plan and are planning to show their conference presentation in Lorne and Anglesea soon.

 

The Friends of Queens Park were granted $1,000 to continue their long term mission to control environmental weeds like sweet pittosporum, boneseed and English broom in Queens Park, Lorne.

 

The Lorne Business and Tourism Association were granted $1,000 to provide bollards for the disposal of cigarette butts in Lorne, to keep toxic cigarette butts from polluting the environment and eventually making their way into the Erskine River and the sea.