- 28 heritage projects will share over $1.2 million in grant funding
- Annual grants support heritage conservation, promotion and project
planning
- Projects reimagine the stories and places from Western Australia's past
Heritage Minister David Templeman
today congratulated the latest recipients of grant funding for the conservation,
protection and promotion of State heritage.
Awarded through the Heritage
Council of Western Australia, the annual grants program will help realise more
than $4.4 million of investment across 16 heritage projects in the Perth
metropolitan area and 12 projects in regional WA.
Mead Homestead in Leda has been
awarded a $100,000 grant for extensive timber, masonry and plaster repairs to
help reactivate this 1850s property for use by people living with diverse
abilities.
Another $50,000 each has been
granted for masonry repairs, external painting and other conservation works at
the entry to the Chung Wah Association Hall in Northbridge and for much needed
repairs to the former Tarantella Night Club building in Fremantle.
Once home to the Imperial German
Consul and the 1980s Tarantella Night Club, the unusual limestone heritage building located on
Mouat Street has been a bed and breakfast since mid-2022.
Grants of $100,000 each will
facilitate front verandah and roof replacement works at the McKenzie's
Buildings in Kalgoorlie and the Freemasons Hotel in Bridgetown.
In Albany, a $50,000 grant will
assist with extensive conservation works at the St Joseph's Catholic Church.
The Slab Hut, Boyanup Farm, and
Blackwood Inn also received grant funding to commence heritage conservation
planning.
A documentary series for the
Esperance Historic Homesteads, interpretive signage at Dirk Hartog Island
Station and a heritage trail through the Darkan townsite are some of the
community projects that also received grant funding this year.
Grant funding is matched by the
applicant. Details of the 2023-24 grants recipients are available online at https://www.wa.gov.au/heritage-grants
Comments attributed to Heritage Minister
David Templeman:
"I
am delighted to congratulate the 28 recipients of this year's Heritage Grants
Program."
"These grants are an important
funding source for the owners of places on the State Heritage Register to help
subsidise the cost of conservation works, commence project planning and support
interesting ways to celebrate and share the unique history of those places.
"From Northam to Fremantle,
Maylands to Derby, each of these projects have the potential to restore aging
properties, tell stories from the past and encourage new generations of Western
Australians to explore our State's heritage.
"The Cook Government is proud to
support work to preserve our wonderful State's heritage, to restore and
maintain places that hold connections between our past, present and future."
