Deadline: 15-Nov-21
Do you have a great idea for a project or initiative for the City of Swan community? If yes, then you can apply for this 2021-22 Proactive Community Grants.
Focus Areas
City of Swan is looking to fund projects and initiatives in four key focus areas, informed by current strategic documents:
- Community Health and Wellbeing: The City seeks to support local initiatives and activations that connect communities and improve the overall health and wellbeing of City of Swan residents.
- Homelessness: The City has identified that homelessness is a critical issue facing its community and has declared a homelessness crisis. In addition, since the COVID-19 pandemic, the prevalence of homelessness is becoming more evident. This focus area aims to support initiatives which provide direct services to people experiencing homelessness or initiatives which prevent community members experiencing homelessness during COVID-19.
- Community Safety: Community safety is a key area of concern for residents in the City and this focus area aims to address underlying causes of crime and strengthen local communities.
- Sustainable Environment: The City’s Sustainable Environment Strategy recognises that involving local communities in environmental management is critical to success. Focus areas of the strategy include biodiversity retention, water quality, water efficiency, waste minimisation, carbon reduction, adaptation for the future and capacity building.
Funding Information
You might be eligible for a City grant valued up to $25,000 through the Proactive Community Grants program. A total funding pool of $50,000 is available.
Eligibility Criteria
Applicants must:
- Be an incorporated community based or not-for-profit organisation. Non-incorporated groups can apply through an incorporated group under an auspice arrangement.
- Offer a project or activity to take place within and for the City of Swan community.
- Have acquitted all funding from the City of Swan.
- Have no outstanding debt to the City of Swan.
- Address one or more of the 2021/22 Proactive Community Grant focus areas.
- Undertake the project or activity for the benefit of the wider community.
- Undertake a project that will last for one year only, however the grant may fund a discrete one year component of a larger activity.
- Submit the EOI and subsequent full application in accordance with the information provided in the 2021/22 Proactive Community Grant Guidelines and in the prescribed format.
For more information, visit https://www.swan.wa.gov.au/Your-Community/Community-groups/Community-grants-funding/What-grants-are-available/Proactive-community-grants