Resilient Hawkesbury Grants Program (Australia)

Deadline: 30-Nov-21

The Hawkesbury City Council is offering Resilient Hawkesbury Grants program to support community groups, joint organisations and not-for-profit groups to undertake projects that enhance social recovery and preparedness activities.

Funding Information

Hawkesbury City Council is offering communities impacted by the 2019-2020 Summer Bushfires grants of $500- to 5,000- (subject to application and funding availability).

Eligible Projects

Examples of projects include:

Creating/enhancing community connections
Creative activities
Community events/celebrations
Physical activities
Mental health initiatives
Connection to land/environment

Ineligible Activities

Activities that are not eligible for funding:

Applications that request ongoing program funding
Applications for projects and/or activities that are not related to the community recovery attributed to the bushfire event
Applications that request covering existing debts or budget deficits.

Guidelines

Projects should be community-led events/programs for grass-roots activities that contribute to community recovery and/or resilience including projects that support community wellbeing.
Applicants must be not-for profit and an incorporated association, or auspiced by a not-for-profit incorporated association
Projects will need to contribute to one or more of the following Disaster Recovery Outcomes:
- The needs of vulnerable groups are addressed in disaster recovery
- The community is aware of the disaster recovery processes
- The community can express its changing disaster recovery needs
- Community members are aware of the risks of future disasters
- The community has improved capacity and capability to respond to future disasters
- Business and not-for-profits have in place adequate mitigation practices for risks and threats
- Government, private sector, civil society and organisations are engaged in plans for preparedness and management of the recovery