2024 Woolworths Junior Landcare Grants – Australia

The Woolworths Junior Landcare grants program gives children across the country an opportunity to get hands-on with environmental and sustainability projects, learn new skills and knowledge, connect with their peers and enjoy the wellbeing benefits of time spent outdoors in nature.

The Junior Landcare Learning Centre provides a library of activities that primary schools and early learning centres can use to develop and implement an environmental project, such as creating a food or Indigenous-plant use garden, creating a sensory garden, learning about waste management and many more!

Areas

Projects must focus on one or more of the following areas:

• Food production, e.g. learning about plant and pollinator lifecycles, where our food comes from and developing vegetable, herb and bush tucker gardens and/or
• Biodiversity, e.g. learning about local ecosystems, including plants, animals and soil, and creating habitat required for local plants and animals by planting local plants, installing nest boxes, creating a frog bog or managing weeds.
• First Nations Perspectives, e.g. creating an indigenous plant-use garden or a yarning circle;
• Waste Management, e.g. learning how to set up and manage composts and worm farms, or implementing the 4 R’s (Refusing, Reducing, Reusing, Recycling).

Project Funding Available

• Woolworths Junior Landcare Grants of up to $1,000.00 (ex GST) each, will be offered in the 2024 Grant round, with up to 1,000 Grants available. Funding is available for materials to support environmental projects.

Who can apply?

• Australian primary schools and early learning centres (preschools, childcare centres, and kindergartens) are eligible to apply for the Woolworths Junior Landcare Grant.
• The project must be related to one or more of the following:
  • Food Production;
  • First Nation’s perspectives;
  • Biodiversity; or
• Waste Management practices
  • The project application must also include:
  • One photo of students that exemplifies your project, for use of a published map of projects on the Landcare Australia website.
• Australian primary schools and early learning centres that received a Woolworths Junior Landcare Grant previously, are eligible to apply for this grant round if that grant has been acquitted.

For more information, visit Landcare Australia.