Deadline: 31-Oct-22
The Eurobodalla Shire Council is seeking applications for Seniors’ Festival Grant that assists local community groups to deliver activities or events for the annual festival.
Grants up to $500 are available for not-for-profit community groups to put towards the costs of hosting an event or activity for next year’s festival.
The 2023 Seniors’ Festival held from Wednesday 1 February to Sunday 12 February, provides opportunities for people over 60 to remain active, healthy and engaged in their local community.
Some examples of costs the grant can be put towards include:
- Hiring or purchasing a new piece of equipment
- Promotion of an event or an activity
- Running an event or activity
- Volunteers’ donations
- Workshops, classes, or sessions
- Training staff
- Facilitation fees
- Other items that help deliver activities.
Funding Information
- Grants are generally up to a maximum of $500 (Council reserves the right to allocate more or less funding to any application).
Eligibility Criteria
- Applications must meet all of the following eligibility criteria:
- Seniors’ Festival grants must be used during the Seniors Festival 2023.
- Your group needs to be not-for-profit and either incorporated or able to prove that they are a bona fide Eurobodalla based community group.
- The funding must be used for the project described on the application form and take place in the Eurobodalla Shire. Funds are not transferable to another organisation or project.
- Eurobodalla Shire Council accepts no responsibility for activities conducted through its’ grant programs.
- Your group can give some financial support or volunteer labour to the activity.
- Your group can show that it has adequate insurance coverage for the activity.
- Your group does not have any outstanding debts to council.
- Your group will use the grant to achieve one or more of the following outcomes in your local community:
- Celebrate older people and their contribution to the community
- Create intergenerational opportunities for social interaction
- Encourage seniors to be healthy and active
- Encourage lifelong learning
- Promote and celebrate the cultural diversity of older people in their community
- Improve access and / or encourage people with disability to participate
- Raise community awareness of the benefits of positive and active ageing.
- Some examples of costs the grant can be put towards include:
- Hiring or purchasing a new piece of equipment
- Promoting and running an activity or event
- Volunteer donations
- Training staff
- Items that help deliver a Seniors Festival activity
- Facilitation fees.
Selection Priority
- Applications will be assessed on merit and available funding, community priorities and participation.
- Activities that have been previously funded by a Seniors Festival Grant or applications from Government-funded organisations will be viewed as a low priority.
Ineligible
- Grant funding is not available for:
- Rental costs, i.e. room or venue hire
- Projects will not be funded in retrospect, that is your activity must occur after the grant has been issued
- Annual running costs e.g. insurance, incorporation fees
- Improvement works on private property
- The benefit of an individual
- Wages or salary.
For more information, visit https://www.esc.nsw.gov.au/community/grant-opportunities/seniors-festival-grant
