Healthy Landscapes, Thriving communities -Lutruwita/Tasmania Collective Impact

Lutruwita/Tasmania Healthy Landscapes Thriving Communities-small to medium sized community groups

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Collective Impact Scoping Survey

Tasmania's landscapes are some of the most ecologically significant on Earth — and their future is deeply tied to the wellbeing of the communities who care for them. The Healthy Landscapes, Thriving Communities initiative has started a 6-month scoping exercise. We are looking at what great work is already happening, what critical gaps exist, and what is needed for a long-term collective approach to succeed. We will then collate the findings to identify barriers, opportunities to address gaps in current efforts, and what is needed to support a shared approach to secure a future where landscapes and communities in Lutruwita / Tasmania can thrive together. As part of this work, three organisations who play a role in providing support to smaller community groups to help empower their efforts for nature are conducting a community groups’ survey to identify where local community groups’ efforts need the most support to deliver a greater impact.

Before you begin This survey takes approximately 20–25 minutes. You do not need to answer every question — partial responses are genuinely useful. Where a question doesn't apply to your organisation or role, skip it and move on. Survey responses are confidential and information provided will be thematically collated to help scope the next steps. Content will not be attributed to any individual respondents however if you would like to be quoted with a specific idea or insight, please let us know. This is an information gathering scoping exercise only. Nothing here binds you or your organisation.

About you and your organisation

So we can understand who's responding and connect the right people to the right conversations. All fields optional.
Q5. What type of community group is your group?
Q6. Which part(s) of lutruwita/Tasmania is your work focused on? (select all that apply)
Q9. What type(s) of land or environment does your group primarily work on? (Select all that apply)
Q13. Does your group collaborate with others? Select all that apply
Q21. How interested is your organisation in learning more about being part of a collective impact coalition for Tasmania's landscapes?

Small to medium sized community groups often have immense energy, passion and dedicate significant time to the stewardship and restoration of natural landscapes in Tasmania. Groups including Landcare Tasmania (peak body for landcare groups), Environment Tasmania (Tasmania’s conservation council) and Kuno (digital platform for nature) play a support role for smaller community groups and are interested in better understanding the practical support and needs of your group so they can better help community groups scale up the impact of their work. This section of the survey seeks to explore how your groups’ work can be supported.

Q22. How long has your group been operating?
Q23. What is your group's legal structure?
Q24.Roughly how many active volunteers or members does your group have?
Q25. Does your group have any paid staff or contractors?
Q27. What is your group's approximate annual budget?
Q28. Where does most of your funding come from? (select all that apply)
Q29. Over the past three years, has your volunteer base been:
Q31. What are the biggest threats or pressures facing the landscape you care for? (select up to five)
Q32. Does your group collect monitoring or citizen science data? If yes, where is it kept and who can use it?
Q33. How would you rate your group's current strength in each of these areas below? (1 = major gap, 5 = real strength)
Governance, insurance and compliance
Grant writing and fundraising
Project planning and management
Volunteer recruitment and retention
On-ground technical / ecological skills
Monitoring and measuring impact
Communications and storytelling
Digital tools (website, social media, online donations)
Partnerships with landholders, councils and others
Advocacy and engaging decision-makers
Relationships with Palawa / Aboriginal community
Q34. How important or valuable would background support to help strengthen your groups’ capacity in these areas be 1 = not at all valuable 5 = incredibly valuable?
Governance, insurance and compliance
Grant writing and fundraising
Project planning and management
On-ground technical/ ecological skills
Volunteer recruitment and retention
Monitoring and measuring impact
Communications and storytelling
Digital tools (website, social media, online donations)
Advocacy and engaging decision-makers
Partnerships with landholders, councils and others
Q36. In the past three years, has your group missed out on a grant, project or opportunity because you lacked the capacity to apply for or deliver it (e.g. no time, no auspice, no one with the right skills)?
Q37. Where does your group currently go for help and advice? (select all that apply)
Q38. How does your group prefer to receive support? (select all that apply)
Q39. Roughly what share of your group's volunteer time goes on administration, compliance, grant applications and reporting, rather than on-ground or community advocacy work?
Q40. What makes it hard for your group to access support at the moment? (select all that apply)
Q41. How valuable would it be for Tasmania to have a well-resourced, statewide support function for community groups – providing shared services, training, coordination and a collective voice?
Environment Tasmania is Tasmania’s conservation council. These questions explore what practical support you want your conservation council to provide.
Q44.How familiar is your group with Environment Tasmania and the work it does?
Q45. As Tasmania's conservation council, which of these would be most valuable for Environment Tasmania to provide your group? (select up to five)
Q46. Which statewide policy areas matter most to your group's work? (select up to three)
Q48. Would your group like Environment Tasmania to bring community groups together to agree and present a shared set of priorities to government (e.g. before an election or state budget)?
Q49. How would your group like to hear from Environment Tasmania? (select all that apply)
Q50. Would your group support a statewide call for at least 1% of the Tasmanian Government budget to be invested in nature? If that funding became available, what share should flow to community-led action, and what would your group do with it?
Q51. Would your group like to join the call and campaign for at least 1% of the Tasmanian Government budget to be invested in nature?
Kuno (kuno.earth) is a digital platform for nature, providing a digital page and background support to help community groups present the beauty of their corner of the planet, promote their groups’ work, share their stories, grow their supporter base and connect with others working for nature. The Kuno Foundation also provides background support for community-led, landscape-scale collective impact.
Q52. Where does your group currently have an online presence? (select all that apply)
Q53. Who looks after your group's communications and online presence?
Q54. How often does your group share stories about its work with the wider community?
Q55. What gets in the way of sharing your group's stories? (select all that apply)
Q56. Which of these digital and storytelling supports would help your group most? (select up to five)
Q57. Which collective impact supports would be useful to your group? (select all that apply)
Q59. Would your group like to have a profile and your groups’ stories shared on the Tasmania page on kuno.earth?
Q60. Would you be happy for us to contact you about any of the following? (select all that apply)

Thank you for taking the time to shape this work. Your input feeds directly into the work we are undertaking to map the work that is already underway, gaps in current efforts, and what is needed to secure a future where landscapes and communities in Lutruwita / Tasmania can thrive together. Findings will be shared back with respondents.

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