Community War Memorials Fund
Applications for funding from Round 2 of the Community War Memorials Fund 2017/18 closed at 5pm on Anzac Day, 25 April 2018.
The NSW Government established the Community War Memorials Fund to help conserve, repair and protect war memorials across NSW. Since the establishment of the program in 2008, grants have been provided for a wide range of projects including conservation assessments, honour roll repair, war memorial cleaning and conservation work, arborist advice for war memorial trees, security measures for memorials, repairs to war memorial halls and improvements to the accessibility of memorials.
Grant applications are assessed by the State War Memorials Committee which is comprised of senior representatives of the Returned and Services League of Australia NSW Branch, Public Works Advisory, the NSW Office of Environment and Heritage and the NSW Office for Veterans Affairs.
If you have any questions about the Community War Memorials Fund, you are welcome to contact the Office for Veterans Affairs.
Downloads
- Information for Applicants available in webpage format
- Caring for our War Memorials Guide
Previous Funding Recipients – Round Closing Remembrance Day 2017
Organisation | Memorial | Project Description |
| Award Amount (excl GST) |
Hawkesbury City Council | Boer War Memorial | Conservation works to the Boer War Memorial, McQuade Park, including cleaning the memorial, repointing joints with lime mortar, undertaking repairs to the relief panels and repairs the lead lettering and cleaning |
| $10,000 |
Lake Macquarie City Council | Killingworth War Memorial | Conservation works to the War Memorial including repair and consolidation of stone with lime mortar, documentation of memorial base cardings and consolidation to limit delamination and a structural engineer’s assessment |
| $10,000 |
Lake Macquarie City Council | West Wallsend War Memorial | Conduct inspection, make safe cracked, delaminated and spalling stone on the memorial by using a cherry picker and/or scaffolding, repair and cleaning of the sculpture, repair of the memorial shaft |
| $10,000 |
Bemboka Anzac Day Committee | Bemboka War Memorial | Conservation assessment of the war memorial by a heritage specialist |
| $2,200 |
Woollahra Municipal Council | Double Bay War Memorial | The project will undertake heritage conservation advice from a qualified heritage architect to provide a heritage conservation assessment report for the Double Bay War Memorial and its landscape setting. |
| $1,540 |
Armidale Regional Council | Dangarsleigh War Memorial | To commence a formal vegetation maintenance program to reinstate the original plantings of the site, and to conduct a sympathetic pruning and selective removal of the existing trees to highlight the memorial and to overcome and remediate years of unprofessional pruning. |
| $10,000 |
Crows Nest Uniting Church | Four First World War Honour Boards | Conservation works to the four First World War Honour Boards including documentation, securing all joints in cabinet work, resetting panels to close splits (if possible), insert fillets to reduce splits (where necessary), scarf in new sections of timber to all areas of significant loss, carve new areas to match surround, de-wax boards, clean boards with a 5% tri ammonium citrate solution, reduce staining and discolouration in places, reinstate lustre where necessary, locally regild letters and associated losses, locally in-paint where necessary, hard wax fill minor losses, burnish and wax |
| $9,570 |
Carrathool Shire Counil | Gunbar and Tabbita WW1 and WW2 Honour Boards | A professional conservation assessment on three WW1 and WW2 Honour Boards. |
| $1,500 |
Broken Hill Uniting Church | Wesley Uniting Church Memorial Windows | Conservation and repair work to the Memorial Windows including the removal from frames, installation of temporary covering, re-leading all panels, repair of all broken glass including hand-painted and stained sections and re-installation of finished panels |
| $10,000 |
Lake Macquarie City Council | German Trench Mortar Speers Point Park | Historical research into the significance of the mortar and preservation works including mechanical corrosion removal and corrosion treatment |
| $10,000 |
Rocky Hill War Memorial and Museum, Goulburn | The 1914-1918 Manchester Unity IOOF Loyal Coronation Lodge Honour Roll and the 1939-45 Charles Rogers & Sons Honour Roll | Works to conserve and stabilise both honour rolls including the removal of paint spots and fly stains |
| $7,810 |
Raymond Terrace RSL Sub-Branch | Raymond Terrace War Memorial | Cleaning and conservation works to the Raymond Terrace War Memorial |
| $5,600 |
South West Rocks RSL Sub-Branch | South West Rocks Memorial Avenue | The extension of the memorial stones’ bases and re-resiting of the memorials and the installation of interpretive plaques |
| $10,000 |
Bonalbo & District Community Hall Association Incorporated | Bonalbo & District Memorial Hall | Repairs to the Hall’s façade including the replacement of rotten timber trims and the painting of an interior wall |
| $4,994 |
Central Darling Shire Council | Menindee Cenotaph | Repairs to the memorial’s entrance concrete gate posts which need render repairs and repainting and restoration of Wall of Remembrance |
| $5,900 |
Crows Nest Uniting Church | Book of Remembrance 1939-45 | Protective measures for the memorial book including the production a custom-made book pillow and acrylic display box |
| $1,040 |
Cootamundra RSL Sub Branch | Albert Park Memorial Precinct | Repairs to the memorial’s damaged uplights |
| $4,616 |
Hunters Hill RSL Sub-Branch | Hunters Hill RSL Memorial Hall and Memorial Wall | Repairs to the Memorial Hall |
| $2,990 |
MidCoast Council | Nabiac Park War Memorial | A condition assessment report of the Nabiac Park War Memorial |
| $3,000 |
Booligal War Memorial Hall | Booligal War Memorial Hall | A condition assessment report of the Nabiac Park War Memorial |
| $3,000 |
Boorowa RSL Sub Branch | Boorowa War Memorial | A condition assessment report of the Boorowa War Memorial |
| $3,000 |