Peel -Ha r vey Com munit y En vironm ent Grant s Changing Landscapes Expression of Interest Form ($10,001-$50,000) In completing this form please ensure you refer to the Guidelines. Type your responses directly into the ‘boxes’ following each question. 1. Project Title Click here to enter text. Total project budget: $Click here to enter text. Grant amount requested: $Click here to enter text. Project start date: Click here to enter text. Project completion date: Click here to enter text. Please submit your EOI by 10am, Thursday, 12 November, 2015: By mail or in person By email PHCC Community Environment Grants Attention: Community Environment Grant - Application EOI Peel-Harvey Catchment Council admin@peel-harvey.org.au 58 Sutton Street MANDURAH WA 6210 Successful EOI applicants will be invited to submit a Grant Application which will be due by 10am Monday, November 30, 2015 OFFICE USE ONLY Date submitted Pre-eligibility done by Date Amount applied for $ EOI. No. App. contribution $ Notification This project is supported by the Peel-Harvey Catchment Council, through funding from the Australian Government’s National Landcare Programme. Peel-Harvey Community Environment Grants – Round 1 Changing Landscapes Page 1 of 8 2. Applicant details Name, Community Group Click here to enter text. or Business Name: (Legal Entity) ABN Click here to enter text. Landowner:. Click here to enter text. Organisational Status e.g. Incorporated group Registered for GST Yes ☐ No ☐ Click here to enter text. Postal address Contact person Click here to enter text. for Click here to enter text. application Position in organisation Click here to enter text. Telephone Click here to enter text. Email Click here to enter text. Person sign Authorised on behalf to Mobile Click here to enter text. Click here to enter text. of Organisation Are any proposed actions within your project, a requirement of an existing Approval? Yes ☐ Is your group incorporated, a school or a local government council? Yes ☐ No ☐ Does your group have an Australian Business Number? Yes ☐ No ☐ No ☐ If you answered no to either of these questions you will need a sponsor. 3. Sponsor organisation (if applicable) Name Click here to enter text. Postal address Click here to enter text. Contact person Click here to enter text. Peel-Harvey Community Environment Grants – Round 1 Changing Landscapes Page 2 of 8 Position in organisation Click here to enter text. Telephone Click here to enter text. 4. Email Click here to enter text. Insurance Do you/ does your group have current public liability insurance? ☐ Yes ☐ No Do you/your group have current workers compensation insurance? ☐ Yes ☐ No ☐ N/A ☐ Other: Do you/your group have current personal accident insurance for volunteers? ☐ Yes 5. ☐ No ☐ N/A Project site - Location: General location Click here to enter text. (street address, lot numbers) Who owns the land? Click here to enter text. Who manages the land? What natural asset/s are you Click here to enter text. protecting? Local Government (councils) covered area/s by Click here to enter text. the project GPS coordinates (if available) Click here to enter text. Please attach a map showing the location of the project site, anticipated project activities and any works already undertaken in the area. If work is being undertaken at multiple sites please include a map of each site and an overarching map showing the sites in relation to each other. 6. Project Description Provide a description of the project (approx, 500 words maximum) including: why the project is important – alignment with National, Regional & local objectives; addressing recommendations from Plans/Strategies etc what natural asset/s are you protecting and what are the threats you are addressing for that asset and the long-term risk if nothing is done what the project will do (activities of your project) Note: you also need to complete Q9 and the project budget (Q8) Click here to enter text. Peel-Harvey Community Environment Grants – Round 1 Changing Landscapes Page 3 of 8 7. Alignment with other plans Is the proposed project in accordance with a Management Plan? Yes ☐ No ☐ If Yes, please name the Plan(s). Click here to enter text. If No, will a management plan be prepared to support this project? Yes ☐ 8. No ☐ Partnerships, Consultation and Permissions Please indicate what partners you expect to be involved in the project; what consultation with the Aboriginal Community will be done as part of project planning and delivery, and any approvals you have identified as likely to be required to undertake the project. Click here to enter text. 9. Addressing Priorities Please identify which items in each of the following categories your Projects will address: A NLP objectives: Please tick where appropriate the NLP objectives that the project will address and indicate estimated hectares that will be managed. 1. B The project will protect, improve or maintain 1.1 Regionally significant species habitat or communities ☐ No. Hectares: 1.2 Habitats for migratory species ☐ No. Hectares: 1.3 Habitats for threatened species ☐ No. Hectares: 1.4 Threatened ecological communities ☐ No. Hectares: 1.5 The ecological character of the Peel-Yalgorup Ramsar site ☐ No. Hectares: Peel-Harvey’s NRM Strategy Please indicate below which of the Activities from Bindjareb Boodja Landscapes 2025 the project will address: Goal/strategy Strategy Activity B1 Wetlands and B1.2 Improve condition B1.2.1 Prepare and implement action plans to Waterways are of wetlands and restore the natural function of wetlands and healthy and watercourses watercourses productive B1.3 Protect wetlands B1.3.2 Encourage implementation of management and watercourse plans B3 Coastal and B3.1 Protect foreshores B3.1.2 Support the community to value and manage nearshore areas and for their ecological and coastal areas recreational values Peel-Harvey Community Environment Grants – Round 1 Changing Landscapes Page 4 of 8 processes are resilient and valued B4 Biodiversity is B4.1 Protect priority B4.1.3/B4.1.4 Assist land managers to protect conserved terrestrial and aquatic priority natural areas – terrestrial and aquatic natural areas B4.2 identify and B4.2.1 identify and monitor threats and threatening monitor threats and processes threatening processes B4.2.2. implement and support threat reduction activities in priority areas C B4.3 Restore ecological B4.3.1 undertake landscape scale restoration for linkages multiple benefits Threats Please indicate which threats to terrestrial biodiversity, aquatic biodiversity and water resources identified in Binjareb Boodja Landscapes 2025 that the project will address. ☐ acidification ☐ altered fire regimes ☐ contamination ☐ erosion ☐ eutrophication & sedimentation ☐ fragmentation & isolation (loss of native vegetation) ☐ grazing ☐ impacts of climate change – sea level rise; drought; altered water regimes; reduction in flow ☐ inefficient use of water resources ☐ loss of riparian zone/buffers ☐ pathogens (phytophthora) ☐ physical disturbance (including of seagrass beds, sediment and benthic layers) ☐ recreational impacts ☐ salinity ☐ weeds & other invasive species (including feral animals) D Activities The eligible activities below are the National Landcare Programme’s minimum requirements for project monitoring and reporting. Which Activities will your project undertake? Please tick Activity Name Activity Name Activity Name Peel-Harvey Community Environment Grants – Round 1 Changing Landscapes Activity Name Page 5 of 8 Debris Removal Fencing Seed Collection Weed Mapping & Monitoring Disease Management Pest Management Site Preparation Erosion Management Revegetation Weed Treatment Peel-Harvey Community Environment Grants – Round 1 Changing Landscapes Other: Page 6 of 8 10. Project Budget Please indicate the Activities & Actions the project will undertake, the costs involved and funding sources. (All costing to be shown exclusive of GST) An example activities is provided in grey text. Activities & Actions Start Finish Total cost Co- P-H Grant Describe what you will achieve MM/YY MM/Y $ contributions $ Y (ex GST) (cash and in- (ex GST) kind) $ (ex GST) Example: Fence 1ha of degraded TEC vegetation on School land to control illegal Mar Mar $5 000 - $5 000 2015 2015 $3 300 $3 300 - Totals $ $ $ access Click here to enter text. Click here to enter text. Click here to enter text. Click here to enter text. Click here to enter text. Click here to enter text. Click here to enter text. Click here to enter text. Click here to enter text. Click here to enter text. Click here to enter text. Peel-Harvey Community Environment Grants – Round 1 Changing Landscapes Page 7 of 8 11. Other funding Has a funding application for this project, or elements of the project, been submitted for a different grant such as State NRM Community Action Grants? Please name the grant. Click here to enter text. Is this a continuation of an existing project? Yes ☐ No ☐ 12. Any additional information relevant to this EOI Click here to enter text. 13. Where did you hear about this grant program? Click here to enter text. 14. Declaration I/we declare that the information provided on this form is complete and correct to the best of my knowledge. I understand that the EOI does not guarantee funding and that the Peel-Harvey Catchment Council reserves the right to invite EOI applicants to submit a full Application based on the selection process. Signature of Applicant Print Name Date * Where the applicant is not the landowner, the applicant must seek permission from the landowner/vesting authority to undertake these works. Signature of Landowner Print Name Date Before submitting your EOI, please make a copy for your records. Peel-Harvey Community Environment Grants – Round 1 Changing Landscapes Page 8 of 8