Grants, awards and achievements

• Victorian Landcare Grants – $3.98m*, 244 Project Grants delivered and 269 Support Grants
• Victorian Landcare Facilitator Program – $4.6 million, 80 Landcare facilitators supporting 743 groups and networks
• Group health – 88% of Landcare groups and networks are health and functioning well**
• Victorian Junior Landcare and Biodiversity Grants – $471,943*, for 123 projects
• Regional Landcare Coordination – $1.8 million, 10 Regional Landcare Coordinators, 100+ regional meetings, 187 training events engaging 3,500 people, 700 project grants managed
• Landcare for Country - $2.2 million over 4 years, 3 pilot partnerships

*Funded in 2023 through Victorian Government funding and delivered by the community in 2024
**Based on self-reporting of group health as ok, strong or thriving

Biodiversity 2037 contribution highlights

• 345,309 plants planted
• 27, 596 volunteers acted for nature through the Victorian Landcare Program, contributing 383,049 volunteer hours
• 21,073 Ha of revegetation, weed control and herbivore control was undertaken to protect Victoria's biodiversity
• 51,307 participants connected with nature at Landcare Facilitator supported education and engagement events
• Landcare grants supported threatened species and communities by protecting and connecting Victorian Volcanic Plain remnant grasslands,
  restoring Buloke woodlands, and enhancing habitat for Gang Gang cockatoo, Leadbeater’s Possum, Brush-tailed Phascogale, Barking Owl,
  Bog Gum and Growling Grass Frog.

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Victorian Landcare Facilitator Program - 2024 outcomes

The Victorian Landcare Facilitator Program funds 80 part-time Landcare facilitators, employed directly by networks, groups, and other organisations. Landcare facilitators help environmental volunteers protect, enhance and restore the environment.

80 part-time Landcare facilitator positions

$4.56 Million investment by the Victorian Government in 2023-24

743 groups and networks supported by a Landcare facilitator

211 engagement, management, property, and strategic plans established, updated, or reviewed

$9+ million funding leveraged for groups and networks from government, corporate & philanthropic sources

Biodiversity 2037 Plan

Landcare facilitators coordinated and supported 1,014 community events including training, field days and workshops

51,307 participants acted and connected with nature.

‘I bring volunteers together to work on projects to create a larger impact, I can help them get things off the ground, getting grants, setting up bigger projects. It’s very grassroots which is what I love about it.’ – Landcare Facilitator

*Data based on 78 submitted annual reports.

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