Looking after this country since 1989
The South West Goulburn Landcare Network has connected landholders across the Mitchell Shire since 1989.
Our history
South West Goulburn Landcare was established in 1989, three years after Landcare began in Victoria and the year the movement went national. It brings together the Landcare groups working in the catchments of the creeks that run from the Great Dividing Range down to the Goulburn River near Seymour, with Broadford at the centre and around 170 members. Over that time the network and its groups have run coordinated weed and pest programs, blackberry control across the Dabyminga catchment, waterway fencing and soil health trials, and above all tree planting, including the annual Glenaroua community planting, which has run for more than 25 years.
How the network works
Each of our member groups runs its own patch and its own projects, with its own committee. The network links them together, sharing a facilitator, coordinating funding, and running projects that are bigger than any one group. Each member group appoints a representative to sit on the network committee, alongside representatives from Mitchell Shire Council, the Goulburn Broken Catchment Management Authority and the Department of Energy, Environment and Climate Action. Every member has one vote and four members form a quorum, so decisions are made by the groups themselves rather than for them. The committee meets at least four times a year and holds an annual general meeting, where the office holders are elected for the year ahead, and by long-standing practice the presidency rotates around the member groups.
Jenny McInnes
Paul Fleming
Nicole Maxwell
Narelle Ayson
The network also employs a Landcare facilitator, Luca Brew, who supports the groups and their members. The facilitator is a staff member, not an office holder.
Governance
South West Goulburn Landcare Network Inc. · ABN 16 096 892 211 · Registered Association A0053125F · ACNC-registered charity since December 2012, endorsed as a tax deductible gift recipient from January 2024. The network operates under the Consumer Affairs Victoria model rules for an incorporated association, together with its Terms of Reference. Our charity registration and annual reporting can be checked at any time on the ACNC charity register, and the network’s page on the Victorian Landcare Gateway lists us alongside every other Landcare group in the state.
Landcare beyond our patch
Outside the Mitchell Shire, or looking for a group nearer home? Start with these.
Find your local Landcare group
Landcare Victoria's map of every group in the state. Type a town or drop a pin.
Victorian Landcare Gateway
The state directory of groups and networks, run by the Department of Energy, Environment and Climate Action. Our own page is at landcarevic.org.au/groups/goulburnbroken/swg.
Landcare Australia
Grants, Junior Landcare and the national picture.
Goulburn Broken Catchment Management Authority
Funds much of the network's work and employs the regional Landcare coordinator.
Upper Goulburn Landcare Network
Yea, Alexandra, Strath Creek and the Murrindindi Shire.
Up2Us Landcare Alliance
Mansfield and the upper Goulburn, and our partner in Scaling Success.
BEAM Mitchell Environment Group
Kilmore based, across the Mitchell Shire.