Grants, awards and achievements

• Victorian Landcare Grants – $3.38m* for 216 Project Grants and 281 Support Grants
• Victorian Landcare Facilitator Program – $4.5 million to support 734 groups and networks
• Victorian Junior Landcare and Biodiversity Grants – $381,000* for 110 projects
• Regional Landcare Coordination – $1.7 million for 10 Regional Landcare Coordinators
• Environmental volunteers supported by the Victorian Landcare Facilitator Program made a $13.4 million economic contribution **
• Group health – 88% of Landcare groups and networks are health and functioning well***

*Funded in 2022 through Victorian Government funding and delivered by the community in 2023
**Based on a monetary value of $41.72/hour for volunteer contribution
***Based on self-reporting of group health as ok, strong or thriving

Biodiversity 2037 contribution highlights

• 18,317 volunteers acted for nature through the Victorian Landcare Program, contributing 421,302 volunteer hours
• 29,417 Ha of revegetation, weed control and herbivore control was undertaken to protect Victoria's biodiversity
• 42,451 participants connected with nature at Landcare Facilitator supported education and engagement events
• Landcare grands supported threatened species and communities by protecting and connecting Victorian Volcanic Plain remnants, restoring Buloke woodlands and enhancing habitat for Murray crayfish, Southern Brown banicoot and Lace Monitor.

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Victorian Landcare Facilitator Program - 2023 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 environments.

80 part-time Landcare facilitator positions

$4.5 Million investment by the Victorian Government

734 groups and networks supported by a Landcare facilitator

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

$8+ million funding leveraged for groups and networks from government, corporate & philanthropic sources

Biodiversity 2037 Plan

Landcare facilitators coordinated and supported 1,090 community events including training, field days and workshops

42,541 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

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