Environment Fund

Donate to the Environment Fund
The amount of financial support we can give to reseach projects depends on the amount of donations received to the Fund. Donations of $2 and more to the FNCV Environment Fund are tax deductible, and a tax receipt will be issued.

To make a donation to the Environment Fund you can either:

  • Mail a cheque to the FNCV, Blackburn 3130 or,
  • Pay directly into the FNCV bank account. Bendigo Bank, BSB 633-000 A/c Number 123098725 . Please use your name and "enviro" as your reference.
When you donate you can be assured that 100% of the money will go to the successful applicants. All administration fees are met by our Club and all time spent on administering the fund is voluntary.

The FNCV Environment Fund has been set up to support the objectives of the Club in relation to the environment.

The FNCV Environment Fund has the following purposes:

  • to support and finance environmental research, in particular research into the biodiversity of Victoria.

  • to support and finance dissemination of information on the natural environment by any legitimate means, including public lectures, seminars, field trips, courses and publications.

  • to support and finance practical projects aimed at preserving and enhancing the biodiversity of Victoria.

The announcement for new grants will be placed on the FNCV website.

We look forward to receiving many more interesting and exciting project proposals.

In the past the FNCV Environment Fund supported the following projects:

2024 Environment fund recipients

  • Suzi Duncan. Landowner Whittlesea. Second part of her work on producing 3 booklets on the Egg and Bacon plants of Whittlesea. $1,100.
  • FNCV. A Tucsen HD-Lite HDMI Microscope Camera, plus adaptors and lenses $1074.
  • Kinglake Friends of the Forest. Senshin 12 m telescopic height pole, Yamago 50 m fibreglass tape measure, Four Temu retractable tape measure for use with the Flame Model fire prediction survey model. $1,030.
  • Murray Darling Wetlands Working Group. Purchase of 6 solar powered trail cameras plus cards to use in remote monitoring of Wetlands in the Goulburn, Murray and Loddon catchments. $1,250.
  • Mali Dunes FNCV Property. Track clearing. $1,250.
  • Mali Dunes FNCV Property. Weed clearing. $1,250.
  • St Arnaud Field Naturalists Club. Hire of an IT professional to upgrade the Website. $1,250. Friends of the Helmeted Honeyeater Nursery. Purchase of 4 bespoke wire mesh benches to fit crates to hold forestry tube stock. $1,200.
  • FNCV Fauna Survey Group. Bioacoustics survey AI equipment consisting of three BirdWeatherPortable Universe Codec (PUC) plus Tripods. $1,383.
  • Jayne Burton,Student, Bach Agriculture and Technology (Latrobe Uni and Melb Polytechnic) Supplies for research project investigating the parasite burden, stomach contents, sex segregation, fecundity and morphometics of the invasive species Eastern Gambusia (Gambusia Holbrook). $500.
  • Friends of Errinundra. Bus hire and fuel to run a bus trip to the Errinundra National Park $500.
  • Sue Bendel. Secretary Wildlife Carers for Protection of Habitat Inc. Purchase of 500 indigenous tube stock for revegetating in Manuka Meadows, within the Yellingbo Nature Conservation area $1,375.

A document containing past recipients from 2011 is available below.

Download: Past environment fund recipients