{"id":670,"date":"2018-11-19T12:50:05","date_gmt":"2018-11-19T12:50:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/?p=670"},"modified":"2018-11-19T12:50:05","modified_gmt":"2018-11-19T12:50:05","slug":"remembering-veterans-service-and-sacrifice-focus-of-grants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2018\/11\/19\/remembering-veterans-service-and-sacrifice-focus-of-grants\/","title":{"rendered":"Remembering Veterans\u2019 Service and Sacrifice focus of Grants"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LOCAL communities are set to receive more than $130,000 in Saluting Their Service grants which deliver projects commemorating Australia\u2019s wartime history and reflect our gratitude to all those who have served our country.<br \/>\nMinister for Veterans\u2019 Affairs Darren Chester said the 55 community projects were a fitting way to recognise Australian military service as the Anzac Centenary program and the Century of Service draws to close.<br \/>\n\u201cI offer my congratulations to these communities which will use this funding to deliver a range of thoughtful and meaningful projects, including commemorative books, artworks, services, and refurbishment of memorials,\u201d Mr Chester said.<br \/>\n\u201cIn a fitting tribute to the centenary of the First World War Armistice, Penshurst RSL Sub-Branch in Victoria will use the Saluting Their Service grant to add additional lettering and a poppy graphic to a memorial commemorating veterans of the First World War.<br \/>\n\u201cAs we look to the next 100 years of service, the Honouring Indigenous War Graves group of Western Australia will commemorate veterans of more recent conflicts, including Vietnam, Afghanistan, Iraq and Timor.\u201d<br \/>\nThe Community Commemorative Grants category of the Saluting Their Service program provides up to $4000 for each project and applications can now be made through the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.communitygrants.gov.au\/\">Community Grants Hub<\/a>.<br \/>\nApplicants requiring support in submitting their application are encouraged to phone 1800 020 283 or email\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:support@communitygrants.gov.au\">support@communitygrants.gov.au<\/a><br \/>\nA list of the 55 projects receiving funding follows. All funding listed is GST exclusive.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LOCAL communities are set to receive more than $130,000 in Saluting Their Service grants which deliver projects commemorating Australia\u2019s wartime history and reflect our gratitude to all those who have served our country. Minister for Veterans\u2019 Affairs Darren Chester said the 55 community projects were a fitting way to recognise Australian military service as the &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2018\/11\/19\/remembering-veterans-service-and-sacrifice-focus-of-grants\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Remembering Veterans\u2019 Service and Sacrifice focus of Grants&#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":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-670","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aussie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/670","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=670"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/670\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}