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Applications open for Community Major Grants Program (Australia)

Deadline: 26-Feb-2025

The Devonport City Council is seeking applications for its Community Major Grants Program to support community organisations to deliver one-off projects, events and activities that enhance the liveability, health and well-being of the Devonport community.

Categories
  • Grants must address specific criteria in one of the following categories:
  • Applications for major grants must address priorities in at least one of the following categories:
    • Health and wellbeing
      • Projects under this category will:
        • Promote community strengthening and social inclusion
        • Support inclusion and access for people of all abilities
        • Enhance community safety and disaster resilience
        • Encourage healthy eating and the availability of health foods
        • Promote community participation in sport, recreation, and active living
        • Enhance lifelong learning and literacy
        • Increase community engagement and volunteerism.
        • Improve accessibility, safety, and use of community facilities
    • The culture
      • Projects under this category will:
        • Build local creative and cultural skills and experience
        • Engage the wider community in local creative and cultural events and activities
        • Support a number of emerging artists in a high-quality project e.g., performance, theatrical activity, exhibition, and showcase
        • Document, conserve, promote and increase accessibility to Devonport’s heritage and social history for long lasting community benefit.
        • Recognise and celebrate Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people as the First Peoples of this nation
        • Promote Devonport’s cultural diversity, encourage equity and improve inclusivity
        • Improve accessibility, safety, and use of community cultural facilities
    • The environment
      • Projects under this category will:
        • Increase biodiversity conservation
        • Work towards healthier waterways and coasts
        • Improve energy and water efficiency of community facilities
        • Improve community resilience to climate change impacts
        • Reduce waste to landfill through activities that avoid, reduce, reuse, or recycle waste
    • Community events
      • Projects under this category will:
        • Engage community stakeholders and create positive social impacts for local residents, such as wellbeing, inclusion, and foster community spirit and pride
        • Primarily attract attendees from Devonport and immediate surrounds
        • Build local event management capacity and skills
        • Enhance Devonport’s reputation as a great place to live, work, visit and play
        • Be of local scale attracting up to 1,000 people
        • Large scale major events will be considered under the Events Sponsorship Fund
Funding Information
  • Maximum Value: $25,000
Eligible Projects
  • Applications must:
    • Demonstrate a purpose that is in the public interest, with significant community need and benefit
    • Demonstrate strong alignment with Council’s priorities as described in the grant Categories
    • Adhere to the terms and conditions of this funding program
Ineligible Projects and Costs
  • Ongoing operational or recurrent costs including salaries, rental or lease arrangements, fuel, administration, cleaning, gardening or insurance
  • Activities previously disbursed or that have commenced prior to funding being approved
  • Prize money, prizes or trophies
  • Travel to competitions, performances or conferences for individuals or community groups
  • Items included in another Council grant application (Community Donations, Individual Development Grants, Community Rates Remissions, Or In Kind Assistance Grants. Note: paranaple convention centre and Town Hall Theatre offer Community Rate in lieu of In-Kind Assistance)
  • Development of privately-owned facilities
  • Payment of debt
  • Political activities
  • Projects run solely for commercial profit
  • Projects run solely for fundraising purposes, without broader community benefit
  • The purchase of land
  • Programs/projects in local schools/ by education providers that are exclusive to students
  • Celebration activities or events where attendance is limited to individual organisations or their members
  • Judging fees
  • Uniforms
  • Merchandise
Eligibility Criteria
  • Any not for profit community organisations or association that is legally constituted as an incorporated body or under the auspice of one, that:
    • Operate within the Devonport local government area or can demonstrate the project or program will benefit residents of the Devonport local government area
    • Have appropriate public liability insurance
    • Have no debt to Council or have entered into scheduled payment arrangements with Council which are being met
    • Have met acquittal conditions for previous Council grants
Ineligibility Criteria
  • Applications cannot be made by:
    • Local, state or federal government agencies or departments
    • For profit entities
    • Organisations who have previously failed to acquit Council grants
Assessment Criteria
  • Major and minor grant applications will be assessed using the following criteria:
    • Demonstrate need and benefit
    • Alignment to Council’s priorities as outlined in each category
    • Evidence of community support, partnership or consultation
    • Increasing self-sufficiency of organisations and/or project outcomes
    • Demonstrate good value for money which shows the contribution of the organisation (and/or others) applying to the project or activity through cash and/or in-kind; and purchase of goods and services from local businesses
    • Capacity of the applicant (and/or partners) to complete the project
    • Evidence that the organisation and/or the project supports inclusive participation and/or promotes equality
    • Evidence that the organisation (and/or the project) demonstrates sound environmental practices
  • Lower priority is given to:
    • Projects by applicants who have received grant funds in the previous 12 months
    • Projects or events that have previously received Council funding

For more information, visit Devonport City Council.