Awards, Grants & Scholarships
Friends of Parks SA offers some awards, scholarships and grants to its member groups for work in parks, as described below. In addition, a number of other awards and grants are available to volunteers working in parks.
Grants
Successful 2023-24 Small Grants Program recipients
The Friends of Parks small grant program recognises the significant work undertaken by Friends of Parks groups supporting South Australia’s national parks and conservation programs. This funding helps groups to undertake a range of threat abatement, biodiversity conservation, Aboriginal cultural heritage and European heritage projects in the state’s national parks and reserves, and includes off-park landscape-scale threatened species or other eligible projects.
In 2023, individual grants of up to $5,000 were awarded to:
Gift Fund Grant application form
Gift Fund Grant Information
Grant News
Awards
For significant volunteer contribution
With the support of DEW, Friends of Parks offers awards for volunteers who have made a significant contribution in a number of different categories. In the past, these have included habitat restoration and protection, wildlife protection and recovery, innovation, cultural and structural heritage and community engagement. Nominations are currently not open.
Award information
Award application form
Award News
Scholarships
Educational Scholarship program 2020
The aim of the scholarship is to engage students of all ages in on-park environmental activities by providing financial support through a collaborative learning process with a local Friends of Parks group.
Scholarship brochure