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:
| Applicant | Project |
|---|---|
| Friends of Mount Remarkable National Park | Weed control throughout Mount Remarkable NP |
| Subaru 4WD Club of South Australia Incorporated | Weed Control in Dutchman Stern CP |
| Subaru 4WD Club of South Australia Incorporated | Fox control Dutchman Stern CP |
| Four Wheel Drive South Australia Incorporated | Annual Border Track Survey Support |
| Four Wheel Drive South Australia Incorporated | Support for Errosion Survey, Ngarkat Conservation Park |
| Friends of Gluepot Reserve | Study of Invertebrate Populations on Gluepot Reserve |
| Hindmarsh Island Landcare Group Inc. | continuing to build Grey Paddock's ecosystems |
| Friends of Bool and Hacks Lagoons | Expanding our monitoring of The Bool |
| Friends of Parks Canunda & Beachport | Equipment replacement project |
| Arid Recovery | Expanding the population of Shark Bay bandicoots at the Arid Recovery Reserve |
| Friends of Vulkathunha-Gammon Ranges National Park Inc | Revegetation of Balcanoona HQ precincts and Monitoring of Water and Fish Quality in Springs and other projects |
| Friends of Vulkathunha-Gammon Ranges National Park Inc. | Permanent weather-proof plant-identification labels for trees and shrubs planted by the Friends of V-GRNP for the re-vegetation project at Balcanoona Headquarters. |
| Walking Trails Support Group | Walking Trail Maintenance - Replacement power tool batteries |
| Friends of Southern Eyre Peninsula Parks | Support for Polygala weed management in Lincoln National Park |
| Friends of Belair National Park Incorporated | Trial control methods on Robinia pseudoacacia and other suckering tree species - VMU 28 |
| Friends of Aldinga Scrub | Treating bridal creeper in Aldinga Conservation Park 2024 |
| Friends of Anstey Hill Recreation Park | Woody Weed Control to Protect Chestnut-Rumped Heathwren Habitat at Anstey Hill Recreation Park |
| Friends of Belair National Park Incorporated | Collaborative Small Bulb Weed Control Trials in vicinity of Orchids - VMU 23 |
| Friends of Belair National Park Incorporated | Widespread rapid Boneseed (Chrysanthemoides monilifera) control trial - VMU 25 |
| Friends of Black Hill and Morialta Inc | Morialta Conservation Park weed control - East Block |
| Friends of Black Hill and Morialta Inc | Amber’s Gully - Erica arborea control |
| Friends of Black Hill and Morialta Inc | Horsnell Gully stringybark forest weed control |
| Friends of Charleston Conservation Park | Post Cudlee Creek Bushfire Restoration |
| Friends of Cleland National Park | Improving native habitat along the Carro and First Creek Catchments |
| Friends of Cobbler Creek Recreation Park | Coolatai Control Continuation Program |
| Friends of Cobbler Creek RP | Cobbler Creek Recreation Park Bush Garden Project |
| Friends of Ferguson Conservation Park | Stage 3 of Trail Upgrades in Ferguson Conservation Park |
| Friends of Kaiserstuhl Conservation Park | Protecting Kaiserstuhl Conservation Park's important Biodiversity from threatening weed species through targeted weed control. |
| Friends of Kaiserstuhl Conservation Park | Targeted control of cape tulip to protect the EPBC listed Calaenia argocalla within the park |
| Friends of Kenneth Stirling Conservation Park | Control of Broom and Blackberry weed infestations on steep sections and close to running watercourses within Wotton Conservation Park |
| Friends of Mark Oliphant Conservation Park | Long Term Planning Support for Mark Oliphant Conservation Park Volunteers |
| Friends of Minda Dunes | Increasing Habitat and Biodiversity of the Minda Dunes 2 |
| Friends of Onkaparinga Park Inc | Feather Grass Removal-Brushcutter |
| Friends of Para Wirra | Strategic Control of Weed Threats to Para Wirra CP |
| Friends of Scott Creek Conservation Park | Post fire recovery - Mackereth Cottage precinct |
| Friends of Stipiturus and Hesperilla Conservation Parks | Broom control to protect the biodiversity values of Stipiturus Conservation Park |
| Friends of Waite Conservation Reserve Inc. | Native seed for direct seeding project in Waite Conservation Reserve |
| Nature Foundation | Phragamites control to protect Mount Lofty Ranges Southern Emu-wren habitat restoration at Watchalunga Nature Reserve. |
| Sixth Creek Catchment Group Incorporated | Burdetts Scrub Ongoing Restoration Project |
| Tennyson Dunes Group Inc. | Reinstating protection fencing at the Wara Wayingga Tennyson Dunes Conservation Reserve |
| The Friends of Brownhill Creek Reserve | On-ground support for Riparian Zone monitoring and Woody Weed Control within Brownhill Creek |
