How these Territory community groups are spending their Foundation for Rural Regional Renewal grant

Three Northern Territory organisations are set to benefit from more than $20k in funding – and they’ve got big plans for it. Find out what they are.

NT Writers' Centre chief executive SezzaJai Sykes, Ngukurr Language Centre.

More than $1 million in grants is flowing down to three Territory community groups – who each have a unique way they plan to use the money.

Community groups in Alice Springs, Kintore, and Ngukurr are among the 103 organisations nationwide set to benefit from the latest Foundation for Rural Regional Renewal strengthening rural communities grants.

The NT Writers’ Centre, Ninti Education Aboriginal Corporation, and Ngukurr Language Centre Aboriginal Corporation have each received a share of more than $20k for various initiatives set to benefit the community.

The NT Writers’ Centre will use its $4k grant to boost next year’s writers festival – held in Alice Springs – by using the money to livestream panels from the event and produce an event podcast.

NT Writers' Centre chief executive SezzaJai Sykes. Picture: Gera Kazakov

NT Writers Centre chief executive SezzaJai Sykes said the festival would run from May 29 to June 1 next year.

“This festival is inspired by place and includes talks, performances, and feature events from First Nations, local and interstate award winning authors and writers,” they said.

In Kintore, the Ninti Education Aboriginal Corporation plans on using the $10k it recieves to make a Pintupi-Luritja rotary verb wheel.

The verb wheel will “preserve the Pintupi-Luritja dialect by supporting the production of a language learning wheel which enhances dialect translation and learning for both Indigenous and non-Indigenous people”, the corporation said online.

In Ngukurr, the language centre will use its $6097 grant to purchasing new uniforms which promote the region’s Indigenous languages.