Banksia Foundation

		The GPT Group Community Grant will be awarded to the community group that shows the most potential to create a lasting and positive impact.

Banksia has long recognised the role of community, its efforts in enhancing the local environment and quality of life as well as developing local solutions that may well translate into a global impact.  All community groups are eligible for applying for The GPT Group community grant, this is a seperate application from the category awards.

"The health and wellbeing of our communities is equally as important as the environmental and economic sustainability of our assets." "At GPT we hope that our investment in research and innovative technologies can be translated into better property development and management around the world. Remarkable ideas can be found across,

the population and we recognise that by assisting community groups to develop local solutions that perhaps their ideas could be translated into a national or global context."

Michael Cameron, CEO and Managing Director of the GPT Group

The Grant

The successful community group will be awarded $10,000.

We strongly encourage entries from community groups that are building the capacity of local people to enhance the long-term social, economic, and environmental conditions of their community by identifying and working toward their own solutions.

The Process 

• Community Group applies for The GPT Community Grant.
• They are judged against other entrants through the regular judging process.

• The entry is also sent to the community judging panel, where the community grant winner is chosen.

Find our more about the Banksia Award Categories 

2012 Banksia Community Grant Recipient

Inspiring the Future

Bookend Trust, TAS

The Bookend Trust is a combined school and community environmental education and engagement initiative like no other. It stands out for two reasons:

• the innovation and diversity of the different methods by which it engages a wide range of participants in real-time, on-ground conservation management and learning; and
• it is a ground-up program, not started by companies, government grants or financially gifted individuals, but by everyday people in the community determined to make a difference.

Bookend (www.bookendtrust.com) is a not-for-profit community initiative that seeks to inspire disaffected youth and their communities with the positive careers they can build making the world a better place. This is achieved through a diverse range of projects engaging different ages and interests. Bookend works to inspire, not terrify, the next generation with facing the challenges that lie ahead.

Previoius winners:

2011 - E.W. Tipping Foundation, VIC

2010 - SecondBite. VIC

2009 -  MyPOWER, NSW