Australia: Emergency Sporting Equipment Grant Program

Deadline: 31-May-23

The State Government of Victoria is now inviting applications for its Emergency Sporting Equipment Grant Program to provide assistance to grassroots sport and active recreation clubs and organisations to replace essential sporting and first aid equipment that has been lost or destroyed as a consequence of fire, flood, significant storms, theft or criminal damage.

Funding Information

Grants of up to $2,000 are available towards the replacement cost of lost or damaged equipment that is owned by the applicant organisation.

What will not be funded?

The Program does not fund replacement equipment:
- from theft or criminal damage without a police report
- damaged from being unattended after use, events or competition
- not safely secured in appropriate accommodation
- damaged through wear and tear
- not owned by the applicant
Ineligible items include (but are not limited to):
- Fixed playing surfaces and structures
  - For example: synthetic pitch and goal posts
- Capital works
  - For example: permanent shade structures, permanent fencing, fixed lighting,
- permanent practice wickets and ramps
- Repair of structures and playing surfaces
  - For example: golf course and turf wicket pitch maintenance
- Repair of equipment (with the exception of essential participation items that are financially unfeasible to replace)
- Mechanical equipment aimed at enhancing the skills of participants
  - For example: ball machines, weights and simulators
- Personal items of equipment
  - For example: uniforms, mouthguards, shoes/boots and drink bottles
- Vehicles or maintenance equipment
  - For example: boats, bikes, golf carts, jet-ski, lawn movers and rollers
- Firearms, scopes and ammunition

Eligibility Criteria

Applications are accepted from community sport and active recreation organisations operating in Victoria.
The applicant must meet all of the following seven criteria:
- The applicant must be non-government and not-for-profit.
- The applicant must be registered as a:
  - Victorian incorporated association under the Associations Incorporation Reform Act 2012 (Vic); or
  - company limited by guarantee under the Corporations Act 2001 (Cth); or
  - a Victorian Aboriginal corporation under the Corporations (Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander) Act 2006 (Cth), at the time of submission of the application and, if successful, for the duration of the project unless applies.
- If the applicant is not a Victorian incorporated association or a company limited by guarantee or a Victorian Aboriginal corporation, it must nominate an auspice organisation to receive and auspice any grant funds paid in the event of a successful application. In such instances, the nominated auspice organisation must:
  - Be non-government and not-for-profit;
  - Be a Victorian incorporated association or public company limited by guarantee;
  - If the application is successful, enter into a Grant Agreement with the Department; and
  - Receive and auspice the grant funds and ensure the funds are used as specified in the application and in accordance with the terms and conditions of the Notice of Acceptance.
  - Auspice arrangements cannot be used for projects or activities seeking funding to deliver services to persons under the age of 18.
The applicant must be delivering a sport or active recreation that is a personcentric physical activity. Active recreation organisations that encourage people to participate in nature-based, outdoor activities (including sporting activities at camps) are eligible for funding.
The applicant (and the auspice organisation if applicable) must adhere to and enforce the Fair Play Code, or the relevant State Sporting Association code of conduct and/or member protection policy, which incorporates the Fair Play Code.
The applicant (and the auspice organisation if applicable) must comply with the expectations of the Victorian Anti-doping Policy 2012
The applicant (and the auspice organisation if applicable) must have satisfactorily met reporting requirements on any grants previously received from the Department.
If the applicant (or the auspice organisation if applicable) has been named in the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse, or received notice that it was named in an application for redress to the National Redress Scheme for Institutional Child Sexual Abuse established under the National Redress Scheme for Institutional Child Sexual Abuse Act 2018 (Cth) (National Redress Scheme), it must join or provide advice to the Department that it intends to join, the National Redress Scheme.