Community Memorials Restoration Program
The Community Memorials Restoration Program (the Program) is a Queensland Government initiative that is administered by the Department of Public Works. It started in 2004.
The Program provides a dollar-for-dollar subsidy to assist local government authorities and incorporated or formally constituted community organisations responsible for monuments and memorials and cemetery administration to restore, repair, record, preserve and promote awareness of this part of our heritage.
Organisations are eligible to receive up to $25 000 for memorial projects and up to $15 000 for cemetery projects that have been approved by the Program.
The main focus for the current round of funding will be war memorials and other commemorative locations.
To date, more than 240 projects have been completed. These include the restoration and repair of monuments, memorials, honour rolls, historical markers, community halls, park gates, obelisks, cairns, trees, plaques, fountains, statues, memorial gardens, cenotaphs and clocks and cemeteries.
The Program’s scope of activity includes cemetery reclamation and preservation projects, and assistance of local government and community groups to undertake projects to research, document, reinstate, and restore cemeteries. The Program also intends to encourage clearing and marking older remote cemeteries that are closed, and to assist communities to create digitised cemetery records.
Forms
Guidelines for applicants
Expressions of Interest
Closing date
Friday 4 December 2009
Further information
Community Memorials Restoration Program
Department of Public Works
PO Box 2457
Brisbane, 4001
Phone: (07) 3405 5091
Email: Memorials@publicworks.qld.gov.au