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.

ORAL HISTORY VICTORIA INNOVATION AWARDS 2016

The Oral History Victoria Community Innovation Awards are open to all community-based oral history practitioners, including freelance workers and professional historians, and members of voluntary organisations and public institutions (excluding educational institutions).

Oral historians based in Victoria are encouraged to apply for one of two annual awards judged by Oral History Victoria (OHV).

To be eligible projects must have been active (in creation and / or production) in 2015 and / or 2016. Applicants must be based in Victoria, though the project may involve oral history work interstate or overseas. Applicants need not be members of OHV, though they will be added to the OHV mail list and encouraged to join. Members of the OHV committee may not apply.

Each award winner will receive a prize of $250, and all shortlisted projects will be posted on the OHV website. The judging panel may award joint prizes and/or Commendations for Excellence to outstanding runners-up. Shortlisted applicants will be invited to make a short presentation about their project at the OHV annual general meeting on Thursday 27 October.

For guidelines and details on how to apply, visit the OHV website. 

Closing date for applications: 1 September 2016.