Lord Mayor’s Community Fund – Australia

Deadline: 17-Jun-22

Applications are now open for the Brisbane City Council’s Lord Mayor’s Community Fund to support community projects that build stronger communities in Brisbane.

The objectives of Council’s Lord Mayor’s Community Fund (LMCF) are to support community purposes that build stronger communities, contribute to the life of the city and/or address community issues.

Themes

In assessing applications for the use of funds from the LMCF, Councillors must ensure the community project will achieve one or more of the themes set out in Brisbane Vision 2031, including but not limited to the following.

Their friendly, safe city – community projects that respond to local community issues.
Their active, healthy city – community projects that increase participation in community sport, recreation, physical health and activity.
Their clean, green city – community projects that address environmental issues in the local community.
Their vibrant, creative city – arts and cultural community projects that stimulate the local community’s creativity and cultural development.

Priorities

Applications must meet one or more of the following LMCF priorities:

improved provision of, access to, and quality of, community facilities
supporting community activities in the areas of recreation and sport
supporting community arts and cultural activities, e.g. Christmas carols, Australia Day ceremony
contributing to the appreciation of Brisbane’s history and heritage
responding to groups in the community, e.g. young people, refugees, people in need
improving the environment
contributing to community safety
contributing to improved health and wellbeing
purchasing equipment to resource community organisations
creating opportunities for residents to be informed and involved in their community.

Funding Information

Each Council ward is allocated $35,000 for community projects undertaken within that ward. The Lord Mayor allocates $35,000 for community projects that involve multiple wards.
The minimum grant is $250 (goods and services tax (GST) exclusive) and the maximum is $10,000 (GST exclusive) per organisation.

Eligibility Criteria

A Councillor may use funds from the LMCF in any of the following ways:
- to spend on a community purpose
- to allocate for certain capital works of Council that are for a community purpose, but only with the prior approval from the Establishment and Coordination Committee (E&C)
- to allocate to a community organisation for a community purpose.
Eligible community projects must comply with all of the following.
- Be for a community purpose.
- Meet these guidelines of the LMCF program.
- Identify the community benefit of the funding.
- Identify additional funding support or in-kind support to be provided.
- Contribute towards achieving one or more of the themes of Brisbane Vision 2031 and meet at least one LMCF priority.
- Be implemented within 12 months of the date on the approval letter, unless otherwise agreed in writing by the responsible Councillor.
- Be undertaken within the relevant Ward boundary and be of benefit to the local community (a community project can be jointly funded between adjoining Wards for financial and community benefit).
- Not be used for operational funding of the community organisation or the Councillor’s Ward Office.
- Applications must provide:
  - evidence that the project is realistic with regard to the following:
    - aims and objectives of application
    - timeframes
    - support from the community
    - budget
    - additional costs/in-kind costs
  - evidence that the funding demonstrates benefits for the community
  - project budget details and clearly indicate how the grant funding is to be spent.