Bupa Landcare Grants Program Applications OPEN
To celebrate Bupa’s ‘Healthy Cities Challenge’, Bupa and Landcare Australia have launched the Bupa Landcare Project Fund program.
The initiative which encourages Bupa’s people, corporate clients, and community partners to get physically active during the month of September, aims to plant 75,000 native trees and shrubs in urban and peri-urban areas across Australia, improving both community wellbeing and the environment.
Eligible groups and organisations can apply for funding to establish projects in accessible urban or peri-urban areas. The focus is to improve the connectivity of native vegetation while encouraging community participation in outdoor activities.
This program supports projects that improve environmental and community health, allowing groups to positively impact their local environment.
Planting sites
The Bupa Healthy Cities Landcare project planting sites must be:
- in or near urban or peri-urban areas;
- within natural open space areas accessible to the community (e.g. parks and reserves);
- within 300m of an urban home, or easily accessible by public transport; and
- in a location suitable for recreational physical activity such as walking and cycling.
Project Funding Available
Project applications should be for a minimum of $5,000 to a maximum of $25,000 (ex-GST).
Please Note: If a group has a particularly good project that requires more than $25,000 funding and can be established by July 2025, please call Landcare Australia to discuss the proposal.
Project Outcomes
Projects will improve the extent, condition and connectivity of native vegetation in urban and peri-urban areas by planting tree, shrub and groundcover species of the appropriate vegetation communities for the site.
Project revegetation activities will contribute to one or more of the following:
- reconnect areas of important natural habitat in the urban and peri-urban landscape;
- encourage greater community participation in landcare and outdoor recreation activities;
- support listed Threatened Species and Threatened Ecological Communities;
- revegetate and widen wildlife corridors;
- improve the amenity and liveability of cities/towns by creating urban forests; and
- contribute to the health and wellbeing of local community members.
Participating groups should engage local community volunteers, which can include Scouts/Guides, schools, and other community groups, to help deliver the on-ground revegetation activities.
More information here: https://landcareaustralia.org.au/bupa-healthy-cities-landcare-projects
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