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Each year the CMA supports local communites by investing in natural resource management activities that help meet the targets of the Hunter-Central Rivers Catchment Action Plan.
Follow the links below to find out about CMA investment in our region in 2012-13. If there's a natural resource issue you need help managing, submit a Request for Assistance via this website or contact your nearest CMA office to discuss your proposal and find out what sort of support is available.
Funding currently available through the CMA
2012-13 Sponsorship Program | ALL PROGRAMS NOW CLOSED
Local governments, schools, and non-government community groups and networks are invited to apply for sponsorship from the Hunter-Central Rivers CMA. Current programs provide funds for community education events and activities (CMA wide), support for community groups (Newcastle catchment), and marine debris education and capacity building (Hunter estuary and Great Lakes).
Improving Tuggerah Lakes catchment | CLOSED
In 2012-13 the CMA is offering Australian Government Caring for Our Country funding through Wyong Shire Council, to support landholders, land managers, community groups and non-government organisations to improve water quality in the Tuggerah Lakes catchment, by protecting and enhancing riparian areas and native vegetation; controlling lantana, bitou bush, boneseed, blackberry and bridal creeper; and improving land management practices.
Community Network Support | CLOSED
This funding program has now closed.
In 2012-13 the CMA has $111,500 available to assist natural resource management (NRM) networks to support and improve the capacity of their constituent groups in NRM and to establish clear linkages between their work and delivery of Management Targets within the Hunter-Central Rivers Catchment Action Plan (CAP).
Communities Caring for Catchments | CLOSED
This program is now closed.
In 2012-13 the CMA has $291,000 available to support Local Government Authorities and Incorporated Non Government Organisations (NGOs) within the Hunter–Central Rivers Region to undertake projects which integrate capacity building and education activities with on-ground implementation, consistent with the Hunter-Central Rivers Catchment Action Plan (CAP).