Community Groups Share $1 Million to Help Local Environment

Local community groups get funding boost

The Norfolk Offshore Wind Farms Community Fund is helping people of all ages connect with nature, learn new skills and strengthen community ties. The support from energy company RWE is helping Field of Joy, a local social group, to continue with community projects. The organisation’s Teen Rangers and Sanctuary Garden programmes are being backed while funding is also being received for a new intergenerational project focused on organic growing, t…

Community groups share $1 million to help local environment

Three community projects will share in more than $1 million to help restore important habitat as part of the NSW Environmental Trust Environmental Restoration and Rehabilitation program. The grants are among 12 across the state to share in more than $4 million to deliver on-ground projects that restore ecosystems, protect native species, and strengthen environmental resilience. 96-year-old founder Dr Tony Parkes planting the first tree of the Sc…

Community projects share $1M for environmental restoration

Image: pressmaster/stock.adobe.comThree community projects across the NSW North Coast will share more than $1 million in funding to restore habitat, protect native species and strengthen environmental resilience. The grants are part of more than $4 million being awarded to 12 projects across NSW through the NSW Environmental Trust’s Environmental Restoration and Rehabilitation program. The successful North Coast projects are: Big Scrub Rainfore…