{"id":27743,"date":"2024-07-08T12:01:26","date_gmt":"2024-07-08T12:01:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/?p=27743"},"modified":"2024-07-08T12:01:26","modified_gmt":"2024-07-08T12:01:26","slug":"naidoc-week-grants-help-keep-the-fire-burning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2024\/07\/08\/naidoc-week-grants-help-keep-the-fire-burning\/","title":{"rendered":"NAIDOC Week grants help keep the fire burning"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The NSW Government is helping support more than 120 local communities and organisations all over the state celebrate NAIDOC Week from today to 14 July, with $348,000 in grant funding.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Aboriginal Affairs 2024 NAIDOC Grants Program helps organisers of&nbsp;grassroots events and activities honour Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander histories, cultures and achievements.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Grant recipients align with the theme of NAIDOC Week 2024: \u2018Keep the Fire Burning! Blak, Loud and Proud\u2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A sprinkling of the many initiatives funded by the $500 to $3,000 grants include:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>A week-long NAIDOC festival in Gilgandra featuring cultural burning, a disco and Elders\u2019 lunch<\/li><li>A community celebration at Tuggerah featuring sport, hip-hop workshops, artefact making, and cultural activities delivered by the Barang Regional Alliance<\/li><li>\u2018Water Wommin\u2019 at Fingal Head to honour mothers and grandmothers by showcasing traditional fishing, beach foraging and earth oven cooking<\/li><li>A NAIDOC Week holiday school program in Ku-ring-gai<\/li><li>A photographic display and event at Tamworth Regional Gallery<\/li><li>A Bathurst Young Mob NAIDOC Netball Day with cultural activities<\/li><li>Gazing Yarns, a camp on Country for mentoring, storytelling and collecting bush tucker for Central Coast-based Aboriginal young people<\/li><li>A Black and Deadly Community Day including a march down the main street of Narrandera on Wiradjuri Country<\/li><li>The creation of a \u2018Culture for the Future\u2019 mural at Muswellbrook<\/li><li>A cultural celebration at Bayside Women\u2019s Shelter in Botany, Sydney.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Grant recipients (as at 7 July 2024)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"file\">File<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nsw.gov.au\/sites\/default\/files\/noindex\/2024-07\/2024%20NAIDOC%20Grants%20Recipients.xlsx\">2024 NAIDOC Grants Recipients (XLSX 58.12KB)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Please note, AANSW is still confirming funding agreements with a small number of recipients.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Minister for Aboriginal Affairs and Treaty David Harris said:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cNAIDOC Week is a special time that&nbsp;celebrates and recognises the proud history, culture and achievements of our First Nations people who represent the oldest continuous cultures on earth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe diversity of the initiatives we are supporting showcases the strength and resilience of Aboriginal cultures throughout NSW and will allow communities to \u2018Keep the Fire Burning, Blak, Loud and Proud\u2019 this NAIDOC Week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWith events taking place across the state, there are opportunities for each of us to learn about and connect with the richness and vibrancy of Aboriginal cultures and proudly celebrate those cultures together.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The NSW Government is helping support more than 120 local communities and organisations all over the state celebrate NAIDOC Week from today to 14 July, with $348,000 in grant funding. The Aboriginal Affairs 2024 NAIDOC Grants Program helps organisers of&nbsp;grassroots events and activities honour Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander histories, cultures and achievements. Grant recipients &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2024\/07\/08\/naidoc-week-grants-help-keep-the-fire-burning\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;NAIDOC Week grants help keep the fire burning&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nswnews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27743","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27743"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27743\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27744,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27743\/revisions\/27744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}