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About Us

GCG’s mission is to ‘connect, support and lead local communities to maintain and improve the health of the Ginninderra Catchment and surrounding environments’.

GCG is both a community-based natural resource management organisation and a Landcare network, operating primarily in the north-west ACT Region.  We support 31 Landcare Groups (including Parkcare, urban, rural, junior, and Aboriginal Landcare Groups) and coordinate numerous community engagement and landscape-scale restoration programs.

GCG is one of three community Catchment Groups in the ACT. It has strong partnerships with local, regional and national bodies.

GCG provides a network for our member groups and volunteers; linking the catchment community with the ACT Government and other stakeholders, providing assistance with project development and implementation, and facilitating community forums for ideas and discussion. Our organisation has demonstrated significant achievements in integrated environmental activities across all tenures (rural, urban and reserve) and landscape types in the ACT Region.

Our committee

The Ginninderra Catchment Group is run by a volunteer committee. If you would like to get in contact with the committee, please email landcare@ginninderralandcare.org.au and we will forward on your inquiry.

November 2025 – November 2026 Committee

Acting Chair
John Giacon

Acting Deputy Chair
Clare Henderson

Secretary
Vacant

Treasurer
Philip Prentice

Education and Community Engagement Officer
Vacant

Public Officer
John Pugh

General Members
Wally Bell
Evelyn Chia
John Connelly
Rajvir Kaur
Tracy Rail
Bob Richardson

Constitution / Rules of Association

View below, or download the Constitution PDF / docx (approved 14th May 2025)

Our staff

Executive Officer – Kat McGilp
landcare@ginninderralandcare.org.au
0402 671 368

Waterwatch Coordinator – Yolandi Vermaak
waterwatch@ginninderralandcare.org.au

ACT Frogwatch Coordinator – Anke Maria Hoefer
frogwatch@ginninderralandcare.org.au

ACT Frogwatch Education Officer
frogwatcheducation@ginninderralandcare.org.au (please remove the old email actfrogwatcheducator@gmail.com from your contacts)

Project Officer – Bruno de Oliveira Ferronato
projects@ginninderralandcare.org.au

Turtle Project Officer – Bruno de Oliveira Ferronato
turtles@ginninderralandcare.org.au

Communications Officer and Project Assistant – Suzanne Richardson
communications@ginninderralandcare.org.au 

Finance Officer – Julian Low
gcg@ginninderralandcare.org.au

Strategic Documents

Ginninderra Catchment Group Strategic Plan 2025-2030 (pdf), Sep 2025.

Ginninderra Catchment Group Strategy 2000 (1MB) – The Ginninderra Catchment Group developed clear strategic priorities to improve the health, diversity and productivity of the catchment and creek system.

Annual Reports

Ginninderra Catchment Group 2024-2025 Annual Report (pdf), Nov 2025.
Ginninderra Catchment Group 2023-2024 Annual Report (pdf), Nov 2024.
Ginninderra Catchment Group 2022-2023 Annual Report (pdf), Nov 2023.

Submissions and Election Priorities

Submission on Draft Plan Amendment 14 (DPA-14) Belconnen Green Waste Recycling Facility and Bulk Landscape Supplies – Block 1653 Belconnen (pdf), Jun 2026.
Response to DA202644950 Canberra Northside Hospital Redevelopment (pdf), Apr 2026.
Submission on the Draft ACT Nature Conservation Strategy 2026–2036 (pdf), Mar 2026.
Joint Catchment Group Comment on “Developing a new Climate Change Strategy for the ACT – Discussion Paper” (pdf), Mar 2026.
Response to Wombat Management Draft Technical Report (pdf), Feb 2026.
Submission on Municipal Infrastructure Standards Part 25 Plant Species for Urban Landscape Projects (pdf), Dec 2025.
Submission to the ACT 2025-26 Budget Consultation (pdf), Jan 2025.
ACT Election Priorities 2024 (pdf), Oct 2024.

Ginninderra Catchment Group Brochure

Where to Buy Bush Friendly Plants in the ACT

Last updated March 2020.

Revegetation of Ginninderra Creek: Barton HWY to Macgregor

Includes Plant List and Planting Templates

Species of the Natural Temperate Lowlands Grasslands in the ACT and Region

Click above to enlarge.

Mulligans Flat Nature Reserve Brochure

Find out about the history and habitat values of the Mulligans Flat Nature Reserve. This leaflet includes some suggested walking trails with a map of the reserve.

Dunlop Grasslands Brochure

Find out about the significance of the Dunlop Grasslands Nature Reserve. Includes a map of the Reserve.

Weeds Brochure

Are these weeds invading your neighbourhood? – Find out about 3 silent invaders: Chilean Needle Grass, Serrated Tussock and African Love Grass.

Membership and Supporters

The Ginninderra Catchment Group supports its volunteers to undertake environmental activities in a number of ways. Our supporters come from a variety of backgrounds and with different interests. Some are keen to improve the areas surrounding their homes, whilst others have an interests in specific issues such as water quality, weed management, education or threatened flora and fauna. GCG recognises that there are many ways through which people can support our activities, from more rigorous tasks such as weed removal or revegetation, to contributing to our working groups or helping out with administrative tasks.

Group membership

Any Landcare / ParkCare group or related environmental stewardship group can apply to become members of GCG.

Group membership provides:

  • Newsletters and information regularly
  • Assistance with project development, administration, applying for grants and financial management
  • GCG can provide access to free or discounted workshops, field trips, forums and events at various times
  • Opportunities for members to take part in informal knowledge sharing of experience, ideas and stories and cross-pollination of ideas between groups/landholders
  • Access to formal local and national representation and knowledge-sharing through Landcare ACT and the National Landcare Network
  • Opportunities to meet like-minded and engaged Landcarers
  • Opportunities to come together with rural landholders, urban conservation volunteers and Aboriginal interests
  • Access to expertise and capacity for specific issues
  • Easy access to resources and equipment at no charge, e.g. meeting rooms, weed control and revegetation equipment
  • Up to two votes at General Meetings and Special Meetings – with one vote per delegated group representative (up to two representatives in total)
  • Becoming a member of the Ginninderra Catchment Group ensures that you are covered by the Ginninderra Catchment Group’s public liability insurance whilst participating in Catchment Group activities. Information provided here will not be provided to any third party without your agreement.

To apply for group membership, please fill out the Group Membership Form.

If you are interested in starting a new stewardship group and would like to find out more, please email landcare@ginninderralandcare.org.au.

Individual Supporters of Ginninderra Catchment Group

By becoming an individual supporter, you’ll receive our newsletters and other communications about events, volunteering opportunities and what’s happening in landcaring/conservation in the Ginninderra Catchment. Become a supporter by signing up to our supporters mailing list.

For hands-on environmental volunteering activities, we encourage you to join in with a Landcare / ParkCare group near you. Check out our list of groups, or have a look at the groups map. Our groups are very keen to meet you!

If you would like some additional information or support in connecting with a group or our citizen science projects (FrogWatch, Waterwatch), please fill out the Supporters Expression of Interest Form.

Contact us

If you are part of a group, an interested individual, or interested in forming a new stewardship group, please contact us or follow us on Facebook @GinninderraCatchmentGroup.

We support a number of local Landcare and Parkcare groups operating in the catchments of both Ginninderra Creek and Yass River.

These groups are always enthusiastic to meet new volunteers or to get involved in local projects.

The Catchment Group staff support Landcare groups by:

  • Coordinating catchment-wide education, awareness and on-ground projects that complement the work of local groups
  • Providing necessary equipment for on-ground and other work
  • Providing a contact point for public enquiries
  • Providing administrative support such as insurance, IT facilities and more.

Click on the links below to find out more about each of our member groups:

Find out how you or your group can become a member of the Ginninderra Catchment Group.