Deadline: 12-Jul-22
The State Government of Victoria has announced the 2022 Local Sports Infrastructure Fund that provides a range of grant opportunities across five funding streams:
- Indoor Stadiums/Aquatic Facilities
- Female Friendly Facilities
- Community Sports Lighting
- Community Facilities
- Planning
It is underpinned by the Department of Jobs, Precincts and Regions’ priorities to ensure the state’s economy benefits all Victorians by creating more jobs for more people, building thriving places and regions and nurturing inclusive communities.
Objectives
The LSIF aims to achieve this by:
- Investing in high-quality community sport and active recreation infrastructure to facilitate appropriate participation opportunities.
- Investing in infrastructure that extends capacity and encourages flexible, multi-use, shared and integrated services and facilities.
- Advancing inclusive and accessible development by ensuring investments are universally designed, environmentally sustainable and strategically planned.
- Encouraging collaboration with sporting clubs, leagues and associations, state sporting associations, schools, service providers, facility managers and community organisations to deliver outcomes.
Funding Information
LGAs/ARBs can only submit one application requesting up to $2,500,000.
Outcomes
The LSIF will invest in proposals that can demonstrate commitment to the following outcomes:
- More participation opportunities made available through the development of new or upgraded existing multi-use, sport, and active recreation infrastructure.
- Improved participation of those who participate less in community sport and recreation, particularly those from communities experiencing long-term socio-economic disadvantage, growth and regional areas and areas affected by natural disaster.
- More equitable and inclusive participation of women and girls in local sport by investing in well-designed and high-quality facilities.
- Improved sustainable design and planning to ensure infrastructure investment is building better and more liveable communities.
- Increased local economic activity through the planning, building, management, and activation of redeveloped or new infrastructure.
Eligibility Criteria
To be eligible for funding through the LSIF, applications submitted by LGAs/ARBs must:
- Relate to a project that is eligible under the relevant funding stream.
- Relate to a project that will commence construction within six months of executing a funding agreement with DJPR (for successful projects).
- Meet all funding limits and funding ratios for the relevant funding stream.
- Adequately demonstrate how the project meets the funding stream objectives and assessment criteria. Claims made against each criterion must be substantiated with evidence.
For more information, visit State Government of Victoria.
For more information, visit https://sport.vic.gov.au/grants-and-funding/our-grants/local-sports-infrastructure-fund