What do you need for Grassroots Grant success in 2026-27?

Before you start:

• Read the Guidelines for Applicants and the FAQ on the project page.
• Talk to a LC Landscape Board staff member to make sure your project is eligible.
• Read through the application form so you know what information you need.
• Gather together any supporting documentation you need e.g. partner, support or sponsor letters, budget spreadsheet, maps, draft publication ideas.

What’s new in 2026-27?

• Project outcomes: you will need to determine your project outcomes and make sure they align to the LC Landscape Board’s outcomes[1]. For example, you want to educate land managers about the biodiversity and production benefits of shelterbelts. This aligns to the LC Landscape Board’s outcomes through:

Conserving and enhancing our region’s biodiversity: Created accessible opportunities for people to learn, connect, and take action for biodiversity.

OR

Educating and partnering to sustainably manage our landscapes: Built knowledge that empowered communities to care for productive landscapes and/or water and/or biodiversity.

OR

Growing sustainable primary production: Supporting climate-smart agriculture or forestry that protects water resources and/or enhances biodiversity and/or helps mitigate climate challenges.

Which one of these outcomes you select could depend on the focus of your organisation, or with whom you partner.

• Activities table: This is the ‘how’ of your project. Here you can outline what, where and when your project activities will be, to achieve your project outcome/s. For our shelterbelt example activities might include workshops, educational resources, field trips or planting advice consultations. This table layout will simplify your reporting for you in the future.
• Using activity and outcome metrics to measure your progress. Here you will be asked to describe how the activities will be measured. For the shelterbelt example above, you might choose to count the number of field days or workshops held (these are activity metrics) or number of land managers engaged or number of shelterbelts planned (these are outcome metrics, the result of the activity). Again, the table format will help with reporting later on.

Monitoring and evaluation:

• See the list of staff on the ‘Chat with us’ tab on our project page who can provide more information about your project’s eligibility and advice on how to complete the application form.

Need more help?

Changes to the Project details and Monitoring and evaluation sections of the form will make it clearer to the assessment panel what you are planning to achieve with your project, how you will achieve it and how you will monitor and evaluate your project. It will also make progress and final reporting easier to follow for both applicants and assessors.

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[1] See the Guidelines for Applicants for the full list of LC Landscape Board priorities and outcomes.