Coastal Community Participation Grants

The Coast Protection Board’s Community Participation Grants support coastal community groups to partner with local government to participate in local, small-scale coastal management initiatives.

The objectives of these grants are to:

Involve communities in coastal management.
Enhance community skills and knowledge in rehabilitation, restoration and conservation of the coast and marine environment.
Facilitate partnerships in coast and marine management.
Encourage environmental protection in the wider community.
Achieve practical management actions and on-ground works which enhance conservation values and/or tackle the causes of coast and marine degradation.

The Coast Protection Grant program is administered by the Coast Protection Board with the support of the Department for Environment and Water.

Applicants need to partner with a coastal council; the council will be responsible for administering the grant.

2022-23 Community Participation Grant Program Guidelines & FAQs

$30,000 is available in 2022-23 for Community Participation Grants.

Applications Open: 1 November 2022

Applications Close: 28 February 2023

Contact DEWCoasts@sa.gov.au to discuss your ideas and request an application form.

2021-22 Community Participation Grant recipients

Volunteer Group	Council	Project Title	Grant
Lower Eyre Coastcare Association	District Council of Lower Eyre Peninsula	Coastal Vegetation Protection, Regeneration and Rehabilitation at Greenly Beach & Frenchmans, Lower Eyre Peninsula	$9,750
Friends of Parnkalla Walking Trail	City of Port Lincoln	Enhancing Coastal Vegetation, Parnkalla Walking Trail, Port Lincoln	$9,000
Friends of Minda Dunes	City of Holdfast Bay	Revegetation and Management of the Minda Dunes	$4,312
Friends of Park Terrace & Esplanade Reserves Ardrossan	Yorke Peninsula Council	Restoration and Monitoring of Ardrossan Remnant Grasslands	$4,000
Hardwicke Bay Progress Association	Yorke Peninsula Council	Protecting Hardwicke Bay's Natural Sandhills	$2,938

2020-21 Community Participation Grant recipients

Volunteer Group	Council	Project Title	Grant
Normanville Natural Resource Centre	District Council of Yankalilla	Implementing the Normanville State Heritage Sand Dunes Biodiversity Action Plan with community education	$10,000
Aquasave	Alexandrina Council	The Great Goolwa Cockle Challenge 2020-2021	$9,000
Nature Glenelg Trust	District Council of Grant	Community coastal education through workshops and working bees at Hutt Bay Wetlands	$8,650
SA Conservation Research Divers	City of Onkaparinga	Marine Hitchhikers of Eastern Gulf St Vincent – Stage 2	$6,860
Two Wells Lions Club	Adelaide Plains Council	Mitigating Impacts of Vegetation Dieback in Thompson Beach Dunes - A Community Partnership Program	$5,520
Victor Harbor Coastcare	City of Victor Harbor	Removal of the woody weed Allocasuarina glauca from the Bluff, Victor Harbor	$4,103
Birdlife Kangaroo Island	Kangaroo Island Council	Shoal Bay Coastal Rehabilitation Project	$2,860
Corny Point Progress Association Inc.	Yorke Peninsula Council	Corny Point Dune Re-establishment	$2,007