Deadline: 18-Feb-22
The Southern Grampians Shire Council is seeking applications for its Greater Grants Program that is designed to help build the region by giving community groups a funding source to undertake new or growing initiatives, projects, or events that benefit the Southern Grampians Shire.
The Greater Grants Program provides an opportunity for not-for-profit organizations, groups, and committees to develop projects that complement areas identified as priorities in Southern Grampians Shire Council Plan 2017 – 2021.
Grant Categories
- Arts and Culture Development Grants: Funding designed to assist groups or individuals realize creative projects. This could include supporting partnerships between creative practitioners and community groups and assist both to realize projects that:
- Enliven public places and spaces;
- The innovative, creative, and responsive to the needs of the community;
- Reflect the region’s identity and tell the stories to residents and visitors; and
- Cultivate and support the creative sector to grow and thrive.
- Community Infrastructure Grants: Funding designed to assist groups to enhance, improve, or renew physical assets. This could include:
- Assisting in the provision of new facilities;
- The extension or modification of existing facilities;
- The purchase of equipment or major maintenance to existing facilities is considered by Council to be of a capital nature.
- Community Strengthening Grants: Funding designed to assist groups to enhance, improve or renew social assets. This could include:
- Meet a community need and make the community a better place to live;
- Provide benefits and opportunities for people in the community to build skills – take part in social, recreation, and educational activities;
- Supporting initiatives that build or strengthen community connections, ensure social inclusion and increase participation in the community.
- Improve health and wellbeing and/or improve a sense of community;
- Initiatives can be whole of community or only for a targeted group (eg Youth, seniors).
- Environmental Sustainability Grants: Funding designed to assist groups to protect or enhance the natural environment. This includes:
- Supporting the community to develop and promote projects which contribute toward environmental or sustainability objectives of the Council Plan, Sustainability Strategy 2010-20, or other relevant Council plans or strategies.
- Heritage Grants: Funding designed to assist in maintaining, documenting, or restoring items of historical significance with preference given to those in the public realm and in particular the commercial precincts of the Shire’s townships. This could include:
- Promote the care and conservation of the heritage places/objects by assisting with the maintenance, restoration, and documenting of these places/objects which help to tell the stories of the Shire; and
- Restoration of commercial retail precincts to ensure compliance with the Heritage register and planning controls.
- Tourism & Events Grants: Funding designed to assist groups to develop, enhance, or promote a new or growing event or tourism product. Event funding is designed to provide seed funding for new projects or to fund innovative elements of events that will have an economic benefit to the region. Projects could include:
- Development of contemporary marketing collateral, websites, visual content, or printed materials;
- Targeted advertising campaigns and strategic promotional activities;
- Items that contribute to professionalizing the event eg Venue hire, Equipment hire, or signage;
- Additional elements of an event that will engage new audiences.
- Funding cannot be used for operational or recurrent costs, donations, prize money, or trophies.
Funding Information
- In any financial year, applicants can make one or more submissions for different projects. The maximum amount that could be allocated per applicant per financial year is $15,000.
- Applications for more than $2,500 must demonstrate an equal cash contribution.
Eligibility Criteria
- Funding will only be made available for not-for-profit organizations, groups, and committees.
- Applications from individuals are eligible only for the Arts and Culture and Heritage grants categories.
- Funding cannot be used for projects, works, or events that have already been undertaken. Please consider applying for a grant 6-12 months before a project, works, or event start date.
For more information, visit https://www.sthgrampians.vic.gov.au/Page/Page.aspx?Page_Id=2501