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ENVIRONMENT GRANTS - ENVIRONMENT PROJECT GRANTS (ROUND 18), MULTI-YEAR ENVIRONMENT COLLABORATIVE (MEC) GRANTS (ROUND 2: 2023-2026) AND ENVIRONMENT ORGANISATION ALLIANCE GRANTS (2023-2026) · Attachment 3 - Alliance Grants Summary and Recommendations
Attachment 3: Alliance Grant applications 2023-26 – Summary
Applicant Funding request Application overview
details
Wildlife Noosa LTD Wildlife rescue • Wildlife Noosa Ltd conducts approximately 1,000 animal rescues in the Noosa Region each year - 7 days per week, day and night, on land and on water. The rescues are
entirely conducted by dedicated volunteers including the use of their vehicles, boats, kayak, cages and other essential equipment.
NICA The Urban Wildlife • The UWG is a community engagement program which provides a resource and service for urban landowners wishing to enhance urban ecology by using native plants,
Gardens (UWG) increase their understanding of biodiversity values of their property and promote their enjoyment of their garden. The program includes a garden visit and expert advice on
ways to improve the biodiversity and remove weeds in private gardens, as well as several free native plants that suit the area.
Noosa Environmental • Noosa EE Hub’s purpose is to connect youth to our ecosystems. By partnering with our local environment groups, they provide a pathway to new members and to
Environmental Education (EE) community engagement and behaviour change within our community.
Education (EE) Hub • Noosa EE Hub support the development of a real time database of flora and fauna species and actively promote engaging Citizen Science programs to support this.
Noosa & District Operational cost • NDLG aims to educate and raise awareness of environmental concerns within the community through a series of community programs and events, informative and
Landcare (NDLG) interactive workshops, and a successful traineeship program.
• NDLG provide a range of services including carbon and biodiversity offsets, ecosystem restoration, catchment health monitoring as well as community education and
training.
Hinterland Hinterland Bush Links • Hinterland Bush Links is an independent, not-for-profit and community-based environmental organisation.
Bushlinks Inc • They support local landholders to connect, restore and protect native vegetation. The work they do improves landscape-scale wildlife corridors and helps secure
biodiversity on the Sunshine Coast Hinterland.
• They help local landholders by securing funding to bring volunteers together, remove weeds, plant trees and run educational events.
NICA Operational cost • As a volunteer-led active participation community organisation focused on the Noosa River catchment, NICA fulfills a key role in the delivery of cost-effective environmental
conservation, restoration and awareness services. These services, targeting best-in-class citizen science outcomes, include both terrestrial and aquatic monitoring,
restoration and education / awareness programs.
NICA Riverwatch • NICA's Riverwatch program includes water and nutrient monitoring, threatened species monitoring and conservation, wetland restoration, marine debris and pollution
management, hazard and social use monitoring.
Wildcare Australia Wildlife rescue • Wildcare Australia Inc. rescue and care for sick, injured, orphaned and displaced native wildlife with the intention of returning them to the wild.
• Wildcare only wildlife group-based Trauma Care Service Network across SEQ – where trained specialist wildlife rehabilitators with Qld Health Drug Permits and darting
equipment can humanely sedate and / or euthanize severely injured wildlife after-hours (when local vets are not available) and on-location (for large animals). Noosa Shire
is serviced by this network and support for this service is requested in this grant application.
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Attachment 3: Alliance Grant applications 2023-26 – Recommendations
Application Requested funding amount Funding recommendation
Applicant Project name Comments on application
score (%) (per year) (per year)
Fully funded – to allow ongoing support of the great work this
Wildlife Noosa LTD Wildlife rescue 87 $9,800 $9,800
organisation provides to the Noosa Shire.
Partial funding – funding recommendation aligns with previous
The Urban Wildlife
NICA 73 $8,141 $7,500 allocation. Opportunities for applicant to source funding from
Gardens (UWG)
other grants and private investment.
Noosa Environmental Environmental Partial funding – maximum amount of funding has been
90 $25,500 $23,600
Education Hub Education provided within budget constraints.
$ 32,482 (approx. based on Partial funding – applicant can source balance of requested
Noosa District Landcare Operational cost 97.5 $15,000
operating costs) funding from fee for service and other grants.
Fully funded – to allow ongoing support of the great work this
NICA Operational cost 97 $15,000 $15,000
organisation provides to the Noosa Shire.
Fully funded – to allow ongoing support of the great outcomes
NICA Riverwatch 94 $7,500 $7,500 this project provides to Noosa Council and the wider
community.
Hinterland Bush Links Inc Operational costs 88 $74,346 $0 Not funded – funded under the MEC grant program
Fully funded– to allow ongoing support of the great work this
Wild Care Australia Wildlife rescue 96 $10,500 $ 10,500
organisation provides to the Noosa Shire.
$104,000 (average over 3 Subject to separate budget deliberations. $18,000 allocated in
ZEN Inc Operational costs 90 $0
years) base budget 23/24 (cost centre 2404)
Total $212,923 $88,900
Recommended funding (yearly) $88,900
Funding available (22/23) $38,000
Underspent funding from Env. Projects (22/23) $50,970
Total funding (22/23) including underspend from Env. Projects $88,970