Landcare Week (August 5-11), is an annual celebration of landcare during the first week of August that acknowledges Australians who are actively restoring, enhancing and protecting the natural environment in their community. This year’s campaign theme is Landcare Is For Everyone (L.I.F.E) and Landcare Australia will be showcasing people across the community to inspire and encourage others to volunteer, join a group or start their own group.
Landcare volunteers and groups work all year to care for the environment in their community, and Landcare Week, presented by Landcare Australia, is an opportunity for groups to promote their projects and thank their volunteers.
Landcare Week is an opportunity to create awareness of landcare to inspire people to get involved and volunteer, or for community organisations to offer financial or in-kind support to their local group.
Don’t have the word ’landcare’ in your group name? No problem! Landcare is for Everyone (L.I.F.E). You could be a Coastcare, bushcare, dunecare, rivercare, ‘Friends of’ or Junior Landcare group. Any community-led group working on environmental projects is part of landcare and can get involved in Landcare Week 2024 to promote its great work.
Be part of a great event
With more than 6000 groups and over 140,000 volunteers, landcare encompasses not only landcare and other community groups, also farmers, landholders, traditional owners and First Nations organisations, landcare facilitators and coordinators, youth groups, researchers, academics, and government agencies.
This Landcare Week, Landcare Australia is showcasing how ‘Landcare is for Everyone’ and celebrating the achievements of all, from farmers planting wildlife corridors on their properties, students learning about biodiversity and where their food comes from, to community groups creating native seedbanks to businesses encouraging their staff to volunteer with landcare groups.
There are opportunities for everyone to take action with landcare. Landcare brings everyone together to actively be involved in sustainable land management and conservation activities.
It’s easy for community groups to get involved in Landcare Week 2024! Here are 5 tips:
* Download the branded resources to promote Landcare Week 2024 on your website, newsletters social media channels. Simply click HERE
* Adapt the communications kit with your key messages. Landcare Australia has created content to be used before and during Landcare Week. Go to the website and download
* Coming soon will be free resources to promote your group to engage local media.
* Promote your events all year round on one of Australia’s largest event calendars. Register your event on the National Landcare Events Calendar via the Landcarer platform. Simply click HERE. You can learn how to add your events to the platform HERE.
* Share your group’s activity on your social media and tag #landcareweek2024 #landcare #landcareaustralia
Newbies
If you are new to landcare, here are five tips on how you can get involved:
* Register your group on the National Landcare Directory
* Start your own group, register on the National Landcare Directory and access some tips on how to get started
* Volunteer and find a group near you on the National Landcare Directory
* It’s easy to get involved in landcare at home or work
* Learn what Landcarers do with Landcare Australia’s list of landcare activities
Share your landcare story!
Promote your landcare story with a national audience using Landcare Australia’s extensive communications channels. They reach over 85,000 people via social media, over 50,000 people via publications and have more than 1 million visitors to its websites every year.
Landcare Australia is always searching for great stories to inspire people to get involved in landcare, and to promote case studies with project ideas that can be adopted by others across the country. Do you have a story to share, or before and after photos?
Stay tuned to the Landcare Australia social-media pages to see incredible landcare stories from around Australia, and post your stories in the comments on the social-media pages and share the Landcare Week posts to your own pages or promote your own stories on your social pages.
Don’t forget to use the hashtags #landcareisforeveryone #LIFE #landcare #landcareweek2024 #LandcareAustralia and tag @landcareaustralia so we can engage with your post.
See more at landcareaustralia.org.au.