Great
Expectations -
Rich Rewards
Community Heritage Grants
Program
The Port Macquarie Historical Society Experience
SIGNIFICANCE ASSESSMENT
 Significance Assessment Report
 On the job training
 Priorities for collection management
 Dominant themes
 Gaps in the collection
 Irrelevant items
 Fresh view and interpretive potential
PRESERVATION NEEDS ASSESSMENT
 Preservation Needs Assessment
Report
 Assessment of storage, display &
work areas
 On the job training
 Priorities for collection management
 ‘At risk’ objects
 Fresh view with preservation focus
Textile Storage Shelving – Stage
1
Textile Storage Shelving – Stage
2
Textile Storage Shelving – Stage
3
Textile Storage Boxes
COMMUNITY HERITAGE GRANTS
 Collection Significance Assessment
2008
 Preservation Needs Assessment
2010
 Conservation Treatments No. 1 2012
CHG Rewards
 Significance Assessment $5,500
 Preservation Needs Assessment
$5,500
 Conservation Treatments 1 $10,560
 Conservation Treatments 2 $12,970
Other Rewards
 Textile Storage Boxes $727
 Textile Storage Shelving Stage 1
$1090
 Textile Storage Shelving Stage 2
$1950
 Textile Storage Shelving Stage 3
$1537
 Textile Storage Boxes $604
 Federation Comes to Port Exhibition
$9900
STATUS
 We are still using our Significance
Assessment Report
 We are still using our Preservation
Needs Assessment Report
 We are already planning our 2016
Community Heritage Grant
application

Great expectations - Debbie Sommers - 2015