The Community Memorials Restoration Program is a Queensland Government initiative that commenced in 2004 and is administered by the Department of Public Works. The Program provides dollar for dollar subsidy (capped as stated in the Guidelines) 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.
In its first three years the Program assisted with 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. It administered a budget of $1.5 million to achieve over 145 projects across Queensland.
In September 2006 the Queensland Government released its “Celebrating our history” policy to complement and expand the Community Memorials Restoration Program.
Over the next three years the Program will expand its scope of activities to include cemetery reclamation and preservation projects. This activity has been included in the Program to assist local government and community groups to undertake projects to research, document, re-instate, 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.
The Program Guidelines below provide details of selection criteria. For those seeking funds, the Expression of Interest form below indicates the level of information required for the program office to assess a project prior to any formal communications to include a project in the Program.
Program Guidelines are attached below to provide details of selection criteria, and for those seeking funds, the Expression of Interest form ( attached below) indicates the level of information sought to establish eligibility and applicability of a project prior to any formal communications to include a project in the Program.
Organisations intending to seek funds in the 2008 round should contact the Program during February 2008. A general call for expressions of interest has been made through the office of local members of parliament and local government authorities and applications will close on by 5.00pm Wednesday 23 July 2008.
A full list of projects receiving funding in the 2007/08 Program is provided below and listed by region and monument type. Please review this list as it is a good indicator of the types of projects that the Program undertakes.
More than 500 sites across Queensland were used for military activities during World War Two. In 2006, $3.3 million dollars was allocated to mark these places Information about many sites will be lost if markers are not put in place in the near future.
A survey conducted in March 2007 recorded information about sites such as forts, airstrips, military camps, munitions dumps, training areas, internment camps and crash sites. A significant number of organisation responded to the survey however there is still work to be done to complete the information.
An electronic copy of the survey form is provided below.
By Monument type - .pdf 59k
By Region - .pdf 61k
click here for Guidelines for applicants - .pdf 52k
click here for Expressions of Interest form - .doc 80k
click here for WW2 survey form - .doc 51k
Project Manager
Community memorials Restoration Program
Department of Public Works
Project Services
PO Box 2906
Brisbane, 4001
Phone 3404 3756
Memorials@publicworks.qld.gov.au
Level 5B (HTLO)
80 George Street
Brisbane, 4000
