Deadline: 30-Sep-22
The Alexandrina Council is now inviting applications for its Community Events Grant program to provide in-kind and financial support for event organisers to deliver community events across the Alexandrina community.
Council recognises that community events, celebrations and gatherings create meaningful opportunities for social and cultural interaction and encourage community connection.
Funding Information
- A maximum of $3,000 for community events with expected attendance of at least 500 people
- A maximum of $1,000 for all other community events
What type of activities will be funded?
- Council is seeking to fund community-led events that contribute towards creating a Liveable, Green and Connected Alexandrina and support the communities to thrive by bringing generations and communities together and attracting visitors to the region.
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Eligible expenditure items may include:
- Equipment or venue hire
- The purchase of materials and supplies
- Marketing and promotional costs
- Contractor payments for the delivery of event related services.
What will not be funded?
- Projects or activities occurring outside the Alexandrina Council region
- Applications that do not adequately meet the assessment criteria outlined overleaf
- Applications that do not establish any benefit to the Alexandrina community
- Requests for ongoing operational or administrative costs
- Reimbursement of funds already spent, for activities already held or which have already commenced
- Events that already receive funding through Council’s Community Event Contributions program.
Eligibility Criteria
- Not-for-profit incorporated community groups or legal entities with comparable status
- Unincorporated not-for-profit community groups auspiced by an appropriate incorporated community group or comparable legal entity
- Businesses with an ABN
Ineligibility Criteria
- Individuals
- Applicants with outstanding debts such as rates, fees or charges to Alexandrina Council
- Applicants seeking funding for retrospective payments
- Applicants that have not provided a satisfactory Evaluation and Acquittal Report for any previous funding received from Council
- Applicants seeking funds for events occurring outside the Alexandrina Council region
- Alexandrina Council Elected Members or employees
For more information, visit Alexandrina Council.
For more information, visit https://www.alexandrina.sa.gov.au/connect/grants/grants-sub-pages/community-event-grant