The Kangaroo Island Landscape Board is pleased to offer Grassroots Grants to individuals, community groups and other not-for-profit organisations to help them achieve activities to benefit the Kangaroo Island environment and community.

There is $56,000 available through the KI Grassroots Grants to support projects valued between $1,000 and $8,000 on Kangaroo Island.

The KI Grassroots Grants are available to fund any activity that improves the health of Kangaroo Island’s landscapes and/or connects people to KI’s landscapes. All projects must contribute to one or more of the Board’s regional priorities and focus areas from the Kangaroo Island Landscape Plan 2021-2026. Some examples of eligible activities include, but are not limited to:

• revegetation and fencing of these newly revegetated areas
• erosion management, such as building stock crossings and moving stock watering points from creeks and rivers
• watercourse and/or wetland protection and restoration
• coordinated declared weed management across neighbouring properties, or control of outlying or emerging declared weed populations
• pest animal or disease management
• sustainable agriculture, such as soil monitoring and improvement, establishing perennial pastures, integrated pest management and establishing and protecting shelterbelts
• education activities
• raising community awareness and participation in landscape management
• supporting First Nations peoples connections to Kangaroo Island.

Please contact funder if you have any other ideas that you think might fit.

Applicants must either be a legal entity (e.g. an incorporated association, individual, partnership, corporation/company) or be sponsored by a legal entity. If a sponsor is used they will enter into the grant agreement and be responsible for managing the funding on the applicant’s behalf. Eligibility includes but is not limited to: 

• volunteer groups 
• non-government organisations 
• schools 
• progress associations 
• outdoor and recreational groups 
• individuals

If the applicant is not a resident or ratepayer on Kangaroo Island, they must provide a letter of support from a Kangaroo Island organisation stating how their project will directly benefit the Kangaroo Island community or an invitation from a KI-based organisation to undertake a project on behalf of the community.

Ineligible

The Grassroots Grants cannot be used for: 

• projects, works or activities already funded by existing or future insurance claims 
• activities that are causing or likely to cause environmental damage, either directly or indirectly 
• property boundary fencing 
• preparation of the grant application
• purchase of machinery, plant and equipment that is not clearly outlined in the project budget table in the application form 
• activities that occurred before the grant began, or that have already begun 
• project management and administration costs of the applicant which are not related to the project and do not appear in the project budget table in the application form 
• routine administration expenses, including but not limited to, accommodation, office computing facilities, legal and accounting fees and bank charges 
• existing debts or shortfalls 
• marketing and promotion of the organisation, or existing services, (unless directly associated with the project and educational in nature) 
• activities that are unlawful.

• Phone: 08 8553 2476
• Email: ki.landscapeboard@sa.gov.au