Funding up to $5,000 to support schools and community groups to play an active role in reducing their impact on the environment and implementing environmentally sustainable actions.

The Sustainable Environment Grants program provides financial assistance to support schools and community groups to play an active role in reducing their impact on the environment. Council invites projects focused on environmental improvement, sustainability education, and the promotion of sustainable living as a way of life that provides benefit to the natural environment and local community.

Projects can include:

• Waste Minimisation - including reuse, recycling, litter reduction, composting and worm farming, waste education projects;
• Sustainable Water Use - including water efficiency, stormwater harvesting and water reuse, rain gardens, water quality improvements, and sustainable water use education programs;
• Environmental Improvement - including protection and enhancement of natural areas, habitat creation for native fauna, and natural environment education programs; and/or
• Sustainable Living - including establishment of vegetable or native display gardens, bush tucker or community gardens, and the keeping of chickens or native bees.

To be eligible applicants must have not received funding under this or another program for the same project (separate and additional stages of a previous project are eligible), must operate in the Liverpool LGA and:

• Be a registered NSW school, not-for profit pre-school or childcare centre; or
• An incorporated non-profit community organisation providing programs or services to residents of Liverpool; or
• A community group auspiced by an incorporated organisation.

• Phone: 1300 36 2170
• Email: grants@liverpool.nsw.gov.au