The Mid North Coast Maritime Museum is set to benefit from a $95,000 grant to support the community to protect their local heritage assets.

The NSW government’s Heritage Near Me Local Strategic Project funding will go towards protecting the Museum’s three locations including the Pilots’ Cottages in Williams Street, the Pilot Boat Shed in Clarence Street and the Hibbard Slipway and Men’s Shed.

Heritage is an important foundation of local communities and this funding will also go towards developing and updating conservation management plans for the three locations.

Items, places and stories tell us where we have come from and how communities have grown and changed. Helping communities to conserve and share their local heritage is a key feature of the Heritage Near Me Local Heritage Strategic Projects funding stream.

For more information on the Heritage Near Me program, which offers a range of grant programs to assist local communities, owners and managers of heritage items, visit environment.nsw.gov.au/heritage-near-me

Mid North Coast Tourism growth targeted

The Mid-North Coast will get its fair share of the state’s rapidly growing tourism pie with the NSW government announcing the state’s first regional tourism target to double the current spend.

The NSW government will work with industry to reach an ambitious target of $20 billion in visitor expenditure in rural and regional NSW by 2025, rising to $25 billion in 2030.

This is a win for local economies across the Mid-North Coast. A regional tourism target is great news for our local tourism operators and other businesses including accommodation providers, restaurants, hotels and retailers, who all benefit from more visitors coming to town.

We want international tourists flying into Sydney and heading out to rural and regional NSW, rather than flying to Melbourne or Brisbane.

A tourism target for rural and regional NSW is our commitment to local operators, businesses, pubs, cafes and hotels that the NSW government will ensure everyone gets a fair share of the state’s tourism boom.

The regional target will be supported by a range of initiatives by the NSW government to encourage greater visitation to rural and regional NSW.