The Grassroots Environmental Grants - Round 1: Koala Habitat Restoration will provide grants of up to $75,000 (excluding GST) to eligible recipients for on-ground projects which seek to revegetate koala habitat and increase landscape connectivity in a Koala Priority Area (KPA) or an Area of Regional Koala Significance (ARKS).

A total of $1 million in funding is available in this round of the grant program.

This grant program provides funding to eligible recipients to undertake community-based on-ground activities which seek to revegetate koala habitat and increase landscape connectivity on eligible locations located within a priority spatial area (as defined in Table 1 - Priority Spatial Areas Criteria).

Projects funded will be those that:

• revegetate cleared or regrowth koala habitat; and
• increase landscape connectivity for koalas.

The following are eligible to apply for a grant in their own right:

• properly established incorporated associations (incorporated under the Associations Incorporation Act 1981)
• Australian charities registered with the Australian Charities and Not-for-profits Commission (ACNC)
• properly established not-for-profit organisations including those registered under the Corporations Act 2001 or Co-operatives National Law (Queensland) (must include evidence attached of constitution for not- for profit organisations)
• Indigenous corporations incorporated under the Corporations (Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander) Act 2006 (Cwlth)
• Natural Resource Management (NRM) organisations
• River Improvement Trusts constituted under the River Improvement Trust Act 1940.

The following entities are eligible to apply for a grant with a project sponsor:

• unincorporated organisations
• unregistered charities and not-for-profit organisations.

Project sponsors must be one of the following organisations:

• an organisation eligible to apply for funding in its own right
• a school (government and non-government school)
• a local government authority.

• Phone: 3330 6360
• Email: GrantsAdministration@detsi.qld.gov.au