Help Save the Local History Grants and Community History Awards from defunding

Flinders street station, melbourne c.1950

The Local History Grants Program and Community History Awards are AGAIN in danger of being defunded. 

We strongly encourage PHA (Vic & Tas) members to send a letter to Minister for Government Services, the Honourable Gabrielle Williams and their local Member.

We particularly encourage members who have won or been shortlisted for the Community History Awards, or who have been employed using Local History Grants funds to personalise the letter template we have prepared with your own experience of the value of these programs. We also encourage you to reach out to the organisations you have worked with and encourage them to also write in support of these schemes.

These programs are vital to the health of community history. They also create a space which employs professional historians. This is your opportunity to shape the environment that employs you.

Further information about the RHSV campaign.

UPDATE AUGUST 2024: The Campaign managed to secure funding for another year but not agreement to continue indefinitely.