Deadline: 12-Aug-2025
The Toowoomba Region is thrilled to invite applications for its Event Support Grant Program to encourage, involve and support non-profit legal entities in making a positive and ongoing contribution to the region’s economic prosperity, community wellbeing and cultural life.
Aims
- Major events: To encourage and support a range of events across the region that celebrate the region’s character and cultural diversity and contribute to improving the economic prosperity and social wellbeing of the broader community.
- Regional events: To encourage and support a range of events across the region that celebrate the character of the local community and provide substantial social benefit along with the reasonable economic prosperity to the community at large.
- Community events: To encourage and support a range of events across the region that capture the imagination and attention of the community and provide fun-filled exciting entertainment programs where entry is open to the public to attend free of charge or at a subsidized rate.
Priorities
- The Event Support Grant Program is a strategic investment tool, assisting the non-corporate community sector to meet and respond to Council’s priorities. It enables Council to contribute to the community by:
- Enhancing the Region’s liveability by supporting initiatives that foster community pride/spirit.
- Ensuring that Council’s cultural facilities and services, such as theatres, art galleries and museums meet the needs of a growing and diverse community. In this regard, Council is supportive of events occurring in these facilities.
- Collaborating with external agencies to encourage physical activity in the community.
- Encouraging and supporting activities to achieve multicultural and intergenerational understanding and equity.
- Strengthening social networks and providing appropriate social infrastructure to build resilience and connectivity to the community.
- Promoting a sense of community among young people and encouraging them to participate and remain in their community.
Categories
- Major events: A large-scale event generally running longer than one day involving in excess of 5,000 patrons, with the potential to attract substantial visitors from outside the regional area and provide substantial economic and social benefits to the region.
- Regional events: An event attracting between 1,000 to 5,000 persons with potential to attract attendees from across the region and South-East Queensland and provide reasonable economic benefit and substantial social benefits to the region.
- Community events: An event attracting an attendance of up to 1,000 persons and being of interest to a local community or a small segment of the region.
Funding Information
- Major events: over $10,000
- Regional events: up to $1,500 to $10,000
- Community events: up to $1,500
Eligibility Criteria
- Organisations can apply for an Event Support Grant if:
- The organisation is an eligible community organisation or is under the auspices of an eligible community organisation as defined in the Community Grants Policy.
- The organisation operates or provides services within the Toowoomba Regional Council area or be able to demonstrate that economic and social benefits arising from the event will be directed to and benefit the local community.
- The organisation has an Australian Business Number (ABN).
- The application is for a project that does not form part of the core business of public and private educational institutions (primary, secondary and tertiary including Parents & Citizens and Parents & Friends Associations) and demonstrates broader community benefit.
Ineligibility Criteria
- The following, would not be eligible to apply:
- Individuals.
- For-profit companies, Trusts and other organisations.
- Government, semi-government organisations and statutory authorities.
- Unions and student guilds.
- Research foundations.
- Professional associations.
- An organisation that has been granted approval for support through a Toowoomba Regional Council funding program for the same project.
For more information, visit Toowoomba Regional Council.