Australian Heritage Grants 2025-26

The Australian Heritage Grants Program provides funding to help protect and promote the National Heritage Values of places on the National Heritage List. The program aims to maintain, protect, conserve, and improve access to the National Heritage Values for which each place is listed, and enhance public engagement and awareness of those values.

The expected outcomes of the program are:

• improved recognition, conservation and preservation of the National Heritage Values for which places are listed
• enriched appreciation of National Heritage List places through improved community engagement.

This round of the program covers the 2025-26 to 2027-28 financial years. Projects can run for up to three years. 

You can apply if you:

• have an Australian business number (ABN), unless you are not entitled to an ABN, and
• be the site owner of the listed place/s, or
• if you are not the site owner, provide a current letter of support from the site owner of the listed place/s with your 2025-26 application

and are one of the following entities:

• an Australian state/territory government agency or body
• an Australian local government agency or body (refer section 14 of the grant opportunity guidelines)
• a Commonwealth Corporate Entity
• an entity, incorporated in Australia (this includes Indigenous land management organisations registered with the Office of the Registrar of Indigenous Corporations)
• a registered Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander land council
• a partnership
• a publicly funded research organisation (PRFO)
• an incorporated trustee on behalf of a trust
• an individual.