Tennant Creek and Noonamah share in close to $100k in grants

Organisations in the Top End and the Barkly, have got big plans for close to $100,000 in the funding they will share. Find out what they are.

Norm Frank Jupururrla, his wife Serena Morton Nabanunga and daughter look at a cardboard model of a preliminary house designed by Steve Mintern and Simon Robinson (pictured in foreground) from Office, a not-for-profit multidisciplinary design and research practice based in Melbourne, for the Wilya Junta (Standing Strong) Housing Collaboration, inside the Nyinkka Nyunyu Art and Culture Centre in Tennant Creek. Picture: Andrew Quilty

Two Territory organisations have received a share of just under $100k to “empower and enable communities to lead change,” the foundation behind the grants says.

Women’s Environmental Leadership Australia Limited in Noonamah and Wilya Ajjul Janta Aboriginal Corporation in Tennant Creek have benefited from the latest round of grants from the Foundation Rural Regional Renewal (FRRR).

Women’s Environmental Leadership Australia Limited, based in Noonamah, NT, have received a $20,000 grant help upskill and empower local women. Picture: Supplied

The Noonamah-based organisation will use it’s $20,000 grant to build capacity in First Nations communities through informing and empowering local women with skills which can contribute to community-led climate solutions.

The Tennant Creek housing organisation will use its $75,000 grant to continue to generate culturally appropriate housing solutions.

FRRR climate solutions portfolio lead Sarah Matthews said the grants were given out through the foundations “community led climate solutions” program.

“The intent is to empower and enable communities to lead change, by innovating and responding to local opportunities and challenges,” she said.