In Summary
- Nominations are now open for the Greater Shepparton Cultural Heritage Awards 2025, celebrating exceptional contributions to cultural heritage conservation, research and education.
- Awards will be presented in ten categories, including Reuse, Restoration, and Maintenance of Heritage Places, as well as Student/Youth contributions and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Cultural Heritage.
- Nominations must be submitted by 5.00pm on Friday 6 December 2024, with eligible work spanning the five years prior to the closing date.
- The awards will be presented at a ceremony on Saturday 10 May 2025, with more information, guidelines and nomination forms available here.
The Awards recognise outstanding contributions to cultural heritage conservation, research, education, promotion, interpretation, training and awareness-raising. They aim to honour individuals and organisations whose work has promoted and conserved the region’s diverse cultural heritage, while promoting examples of good conservation practice and guidance.
The 2025 Awards will be delivered by Greater Shepparton City Council, in association with the Greater Shepparton Heritage Advisory Committee, with nominations now open for the following categories:
- Reuse of a Heritage Place
- Restoration of a Heritage Place
- Maintenance of a Heritage Place
- Best Research Publication or Manuscript
- Other Publication
- Student/Youth
- Interpretive Signage
- Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Cultural Heritage
- Community and Multicultural Events and Tourism
- Other Contribution
Cultural heritage can be tangible, including buildings, monuments, landscapes, books and works of art and artefacts, and also intangible, including folklore, traditions, language and knowledge. Places of cultural heritage significance can include a site, area, land, landscape, building or other work, group of buildings or other works, and may include components, contents, spaces and views.
Mayor, Councillor Shane Sali, encouraged residents to have a read of the 2025 Cultural Heritage Awards Guidelines to see whether they were eligible to be nominated for an award category.
“Greater Shepparton is home to many places of local, regional and state heritage significance and these awards recognise any important community work done in this space. Some of these impressive buildings date back to the early 1800’s and are a true testament to our region’s history,” he said.
Greater Shepparton Heritage Advisory Committee’s Marjorie Earl said the awards were an important event on the region’s calendar.
“The continued conservation, interpretation and dissemination of the significance of heritage places for present and future generations is a crucial way of ensuring that the region’s tangible and intangible heritage survives,” she said.
Nominations for the Greater Shepparton Cultural Heritage Awards 2025 close at 5.00pm on Friday 6 December 2024.
Nominated work must relate to the five years prior to the closing date. Entries can be nominated in more than one category, with a separate nomination form for each category.
The 2025 Cultural Heritage Awards will be awarded at a ceremony to be held on Saturday 10 May 2025, presented by Council and the Greater Shepparton Heritage Advisory Committee.
For more information on the 2025 Cultural Heritage Awards, a full list of previous winners, or to access nomination forms and guidelines, visit the Cultural Heritage Awards webpage. Information brochures will be available at a range of locations including historical societies and museums, Greater Shepparton libraries and Council’s Welsford Street office.
2023 winners include:
- Category 2: Restoration of a Heritage Place
- Restoration of the property at 112 Maude Street Shepparton, ‘Lorraine’, Robin and Roslyn Knaggs
- Category 3: Maintenance of a Heritage Place
- Colaura Gardens Signage, Toolamba Community Steering Committee
- Category 4: Best Research Publication or Manuscript
- Worship at Toolamba 1874 – 2016, by Brian Williams
- Category 5: Other Publication
- Local History with John Gribben Podcast, One FM Shepparton
- Category 6: Student/Youth
- Katandra West Primary School - Daffodil planting at Katandra West War Memorial
- Category 8: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Cultural Heritage
- Waranga Dreaming - Stories of the Ngurai-illum Wurrung People and their Country, by Tony Ford
- Category 9: Community and Multicultural Events and Tourism
- Merrigum and District Historical and Educational Society - Heritage Day 2019
- Category 10: Other Contribution
- Shepparton RSL Sub Branch, Memorabilia Team
