{"id":6337,"date":"2020-05-03T07:30:46","date_gmt":"2020-05-03T07:30:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/?p=6337"},"modified":"2020-05-03T07:30:46","modified_gmt":"2020-05-03T07:30:46","slug":"memorials-to-get-funding-boost-after-anzac-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2020\/05\/03\/memorials-to-get-funding-boost-after-anzac-day\/","title":{"rendered":"MEMORIALS TO GET FUNDING BOOST AFTER ANZAC DAY"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NSW communities are being encouraged to apply for funding grants of up to $10,000 to restore and protect their war memorials.<br \/>\nActing Minister for Veterans Geoff Lee said public commemorations at community war memorials didn\u2019t happen on Anzac Day this year because of COVID-19 but it only highlighted their importance.<br \/>\n\u201cA lot of people missed the special connection you get from attending your local war memorial with your community on Anzac Day,\u201d said Mr Lee<br \/>\n\u201cThat just reinforces the need to make sure these precious monuments are protected not just for this generation but for many more to come.<br \/>\n\u201cOur war memorials give us a place to reflect and pay our respects to those brave soldiers who fought for the freedom we enjoy today.\u201d<br \/>\nThe Community War Memorials Fund grants help protect, conserve and repair war memorials in NSW.<br \/>\nFunds can be requested for specialist heritage advice or physical conservation work on halls, honour rolls, avenues of trees and stone monuments.<br \/>\nOne of the previous sites to benefit from the grants program was the Ronald Jack Cooper Memorial Gates at Eurongilly. They commemorate local resident Jack Cooper who was killed in action in 1941 when his plane went missing off the coast of Libya.<br \/>\nThe gates were erected in 1955 and feature plaques with the names of members of the local community who served in the Second World War and Vietnam War.<br \/>\nApplications close on 27 July 2020.<br \/>\nFor more information:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.veterans.nsw.gov.au\/heritage\/community-war-memorials-fund\/\">www.veterans.nsw.gov.au\/heritage\/community-war-memorials-fund\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NSW communities are being encouraged to apply for funding grants of up to $10,000 to restore and protect their war memorials. Acting Minister for Veterans Geoff Lee said public commemorations at community war memorials didn\u2019t happen on Anzac Day this year because of COVID-19 but it only highlighted their importance. \u201cA lot of people missed &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2020\/05\/03\/memorials-to-get-funding-boost-after-anzac-day\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;MEMORIALS TO GET FUNDING BOOST AFTER ANZAC DAY&#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-6337","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\/6337","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=6337"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6337\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}