Deadline: 18-Aug-23
Cumberland City Council is offering grant opportunity through its Community Grant Program to support its residents, businesses and visitors from different cultural backgrounds to work together and build a better Community.
Council seeks to enhance the use of public funds through well-managed grant processes. Grant programs are linked to the Council’s goals and provide an integrated approach to growing Cumberland socially, culturally, economically, and environmentally.
Funding Streams
- Community Participation
- Employment andEducation Pathways
- Small Grants
Objectives and Expected Funding Outcomes
- Community Participation
- Objectives:
- To aid in the delivery of effective programs that support the diverse needs and interests of the Cumberland LGA.
- To enhance community participation in the development and delivery of programs.
- To create positive connections between residents of Cumberland.
- To further develop existing skills, knowledge, and access to opportunities for residents and organisations.
- To maximise access and usage of community resources, services and facilities including equity of access for special needs groups.
- To encourage collaboration and partnerships.
- Outcomes
- Community
- Domestic and Family Violence
- Education
- Environmental Sustainability
- Health and Wellbeing
- Safety
- Social cohesion, participation, and accessibility
- Objectives:
- Employment and Education Pathways
- Improve career outcomes and create education and training pathways for Cumberland residents.
- Help young people into education, training and/or employment. Increase accessibility to employment and create education and training pathways for Cumberland residents with a particular focus upon:
- Residents identifying as having a disability
- Residents identifying as Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander
- Refugees who have settled in the Cumberland Local Government Area.
- Small Grants
- Requests for financial assistance to an individual or organisation for a cause worthy and of benefit to the Cumberland Community. This may include but is not limited to:
- Community fundraising activities
- Contributions towards a community -based activity or event
- Requests for financial assistance to an individual or organisation for a cause worthy and of benefit to the Cumberland Community. This may include but is not limited to:
Funding Information
- Funding Amount:
- Community Participation
- Applications can be made for up to $15,000.
- Employment andEducation Pathways
- Applications can be made for up to $15,000 per project.
- Small Grants
- Applications can be made for up to $2,000
- Community Participation
- Duration: Grants must be spent within 12 months of successful applicant receiving funding.
Eligibility and Exclusions
- Applications must be for a specific project, either the establishment of a new project or to significantly expand an existing project.
- Projects must be completed within 12 months of a successful applicant receiving funding.
- Applicants must be a legally registered, incorporated not-for-profit organisation with an ABN.
- Unincorporated groups may be sponsored (auspiced) by incorporated not-for-profit organisations.
- Projects must demonstrate that any ongoing costs or recurrent costs can be met by the organisation once grant funding has been expensed.
Ineligibility Criteria
- Duplicating of Council services or programs.
- Breaching existing Council policy.
- Not meeting the identified priority needs of the Cumberland LGA.
- Applications from government departments, schools, for-profit businesses, or political parties.
- Applications from charities for general donations.
- Applications for fundraising, operational expenditure (e.g. admin, insurance), shortfalls in funding from other government departments or completed (retrospective) projects.
- Projects that rely on repeated funding from Council.
- Organisations that have not submitted acquittal reports for projects funded by Cumberland Council or have debts with Council.
- Organisations already funded under another application stream or in the same financial year.
For more information, visit Cumberland City Council.