Viva Cribb Bursary Collection

The Viva Cribb Bursary Program provides funding to individuals or non-profit groups to assist with the costs related to a project that documents or records a significant aspect of the local history of Ipswich.

The bursary is named in honour of Viva Cribb, who demonstrated a dedication to the preservation of the history of Ipswich.

The bursary fosters an appreciation of the city's local history and heritage, encouraging individuals to document issues of historical significance to Ipswich, and making it accessible to the community.

Applications for the bursary open 1st October and close 31st October each year.

Further information and application forms can be accessed on Council's Funding and Support page.

Past Bursary Projects:

• 2008 - Ipswich and District Roll of Honour, World War I (Edwin Habben)
• 2009 - Wining the Coal: coal miners stories from the Rosewood Scrub (Rosewood Scrub Historical Society)
• 2010 - St Mary's Ipswich, The Luckie Parish: Fr Lucie to Dr Oxenham 1849-1983 (John Kane)
• 2010 - Ipswich Bowls Club: chronicle of a century 1910-2010 (Ipswich Bowls Club)
• 2011 - The Regals: history of the Ipswich City Vice-Regal Band (Maurine Lyon)
• 2011 - In Heavenly Garb: Headstones of the Ipswich General Cemetery (Christopher Dawson & Tracey Olivieri)
• 2012 - 120 Years: our stories, our memories (Ipswich Girls' Grammar School Old Girls' Association)
• 2012 - Learning by Doing, 1937-2012 (Ipswich Kindergarten)
• 2012 - Not Just A Show: Marburg Show Society, 1887-2012 (Marburg Show Society)
• 2013 - Footprints in Ipswich History: an historical outline of the life of Arthur Foote, his family, and the Ipswich City Joinery, 1850-1972 (Rev. Trevor Foote)
• 2013 - Talking About Ipswich (Bremer Forum)
• 2014 - [Bursary not awarded]
• 2015 - Rosewood Then and Now: a story through time (Rosewood Scrub Historical Society)
• 2015 - The Kickbusch Family: their place in Prussian and Queensland History 1810-2016 (Brian Kickbusch & Bruce Tinworth)
• 2016 - George Thorn "The Father of Ipswich": a life (Richard Thorn)
• 2017 - The Immeasurable Cost: Stories of Ipswich Grammar Old Boys who served in the Great War (Kate Pitty)
• 2018 - Scot's Sabbath School (David Berlin)
• 2018 - Zonta in Ipswich & West Moreton: 40 years of advancing the status of women (Zonta)
• 2019 - One Could Always Meet A Cook from Ipswich to the Condamine: The Cook family - farmers, mail contractors & hoteliers (Sandra Parrish & Greg Cook)
• 2019 - A Dream Comes True: the revitalisation of the Top of Town, Ipswich, 1990-1999 (Shirley Byrne)
• 2020 - [Bursary not awarded]
• 2021 - Our Welcome Cultural Past & This is our Acknowledgement to Country (Goodna Special School)
• 2022 - (U3A)
• 2023 - (Kambu)
• 2024 -