Deadline: 30-Apr-21
Are you a charity or community group with a project in the areas of health and wellbeing, community safety, environment or education? If you are looking for funding to complete a project or have a project in mind that you can’t achieve without assistance, then apply now for the Aurizon Community Giving Fund.
Aurizon, working in conjunction with Good2Give, has established the Aurizon Community Giving Fund to provide cash grants for charitable initiatives and projects aimed to improve the health and wellbeing, community safety, the environment and education in local communities in which Aurizon operates and their employees reside.
Funding Categories
These funding categories are defined as follows:
- Health & Wellbeing: They seek to provide grants to initiatives that improve a community’s health and wellbeing, such as cardiovascular health related projects e.g. getting active/physical activity or healthy lifestyle programs, and mental health support.
- Community Safety: They seek to support initiatives that increase safety and security in their local communities, such as projects related to emergency response, crime prevention, natural disaster prevention and minimization measures, accident prevention and road safety.
- The Environment: They seek to support initiatives that promote environmental enhancement in their local communities, and in particular, initiatives that are focused on improving biodiversity of natural habitats, community conservation and environmental education (for example, land rehabilitation and revegetation programs, clean-up and education days and local conservation projects).
- Education: They seek to provide support in areas such as literacy and numeracy, life education, apprenticeships and traineeships, and in particular, increasing and retaining skills in regional areas.
Funding Information
- Aurizon Community Giving Fund applications are now open, offering cash grants of up to $20,000 to eligible charities in communities they work and live in.
- The Aurizon Community Giving Fund cash grants will be based on a minimum of AUD$1,000 and a maximum of AUD$20,000.
- Successful applicants of an Aurizon Community Giving Fund grant must spend the final grant amount within 12 months of receipt of the grant.
Eligibility Criteria
- The organization applying for an Aurizon Community Giving Fund grant must be endorsed by the Australian Tax Office (ATO) as a Deductible Gift Recipient Item 1. All successful applicants will be required to supply their ABN so that verification of DGR status can be carried out.
- The Aurizon Community Giving Fund is focused on the broad areas of health and wellbeing, community safety, the environment and education. All applications for an Aurizon Community Giving Fund grant must fit within at least one of these funding categories to be eligible for consideration.
- Cash grants are only available for projects that affect the immediate areas in which Aurizon operates.
For more information, visit https://www.aurizon.com.au/community