We achieve a great deal with our small team of staff... and many volunteers!
Member Support | Community Outreach | Education | Landscape Restoration | Advocacy | Featured Projects
Member Support Program
We support our members with the resources and guidance needed to coordinate their volunteers and carry out their on-ground projects.
This is our core. Community Landcare depends on a foundation of well-resourced members. Our members are landholders, farmers, schools, and community groups full of Tasmanians from all walks of life who care about the health of their local landscapes, and are largely self-directed (with guidance). Local people have a sense of ownership and long-term connection to place. This is why the grassroots, "bottom-up" approach of the community-led Landcare movement is so enduring -- and worth investing in.
Our extensive Member Support Program provides:
- Promotion & Recognition
- Funding Opportunities
- Volunteer Recruitment
- Information & Connection
- 1-to-1 Phone & Email Support
- Discounted Materials & Equipment
- Equipment Lending Library
- Leadership Opportunities
- Voting Rights
- Administrative Support to reduce the burden of running a volunteer group: free insurance, a small annual cash grant, an email address and online storage, a logo, info guides on safety & governance, many ways to promote group activities, and other administrative support
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Our other programs below build on this foundation by acting as a collective voice, pooling resources, building skills, and coordinating actions and ideas across landscapes
Community Outreach Program
We introduce new people to Landcare, and empower them with skills and knowledge sharing, training and education workshops
- We've delivered an average of 50 Community and Member Outreach Events per year since 2020 - Read our event summaries on the news blog
- The Tasmanian Community Landcare Conference and Awards, our flagship outreach event, brings Landcarers together to learn, share and celebrate every 2 years
- Check out our 2024 Outreach Calendar
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Education Program
Our Education Working Group is strengthening ties between schools, TAFE, UTAS, and local Landcarers
- Interested schools can complete our Expression of Interest form
- 2024 Know Your Local Patch events
- 2023 Education Program update
- 2022 Citizen Science in Schools Project
- Sustainable Schools Project 2020
- We've collaborated with the 24 Carrot Garden Program since 2019
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Landscape Restoration Program
We bring members together to tackle local issues at a landscape scale, to build resilient communities and resilient landscapes. We focus on a different part of the state every year. Recent Projects:
- Meander Valley Project
- South East Landscapes Project
- Northern Slopes Bioregion Project
- Coal River Valley Project
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Advocacy Program
We are the collective voice of community Landcare in Tasmania
We raise the profile of community Landcare in the media, and with all levels of government, to get more support for our members. We run community awareness campaigns around issues important to community Landcare.
- Giving our members and their activities greater exposure - Examples HERE and HERE
- Rodenticides - Community Awareness Program
- Community Cat Management in the news
- Cat Management - legislation contribution
- Australian Community Landcare Futures Framework - working with the National Landcare Network to contribute to national policy ahead of the 2022 election
- National Landcare Network's 2023 Federal Budget Submission - working with all state and territory Landcare organisations to support investment in Landcare