Each year, Highways and Byways provides small grants to community organisations addressing disadvantage and exclusion, especially in rural and regional Australia.
We are keen to support projects that bring communities together to forge social bonds and to collaborate to address social issues, such as isolation and loneliness. We want to support people and groups to form new partnerships, where they could develop new skills and obtain new knowledge that would allow them to manage their land and environs sustainably into the future. We wanted to encourage and support the emergence of new leaders. We also wanted to recognise the innate wisdom and unique cultural identity of our First Nation’s peoples that have been an integral part of our land for 65,000 years.
Our grants would not be possible without the support of our donors – and we thank them for their continued generosity.
