Deadline: 19-Mar-23
The Banyule City Council is accepting applications for Environment Grants.
These grants encourage the Banyule community to care for their local environment and to lead on climate action. The grants are intended to support the environmental aims detailed in their Council Plan.
Priorities
- Successful projects must align with Council’s priority theme: Their Sustainable Environment.
- The strategies that support this priority theme aim to:
- Protect and enhance their natural environment, providing connected habitat for diverse flora and fauna.
- Minimise stormwater pollution and the impacts of flooding and maximise Council’s water conservation to transition to a water sensitive City.
- Demonstrate leadership in addressing climate change and take action to become a carbon neutral City by 2040.
- Empower and educate the community and businesses to take actions to achieve positive environmental and climate change outcomes.
- Avoid waste generation and encourage and support the community to achieve zero waste to landfill by 2030.
- Engage and work with the community and partners to protect, enhance and experience the environment.
- Protect, increase and maintain Banyule’s urban forest population to provide a greener City for enhanced liveability.
- Explore and support opportunities for urban farming and community gardens.
Funding Information
- You can apply for a grant of up to $10,000.
Eligibility Criteria
- Group Applicants must:
- Have a project taking place in 2023/ 2024
- Be a not-for-profit organisation (NFP), community group, business, educational or religious institution.
- Be an incorporated entity or be auspiced and administered by an incorporated entity (preschools, primary schools and secondary schools exempt). Auspice fees up to 5% can be funded for non-profit groups.
- Demonstrate financial viability by providing a recent income and expenditure statement (preschools, primary schools and secondary schools exempt). Bank statements are not appropriate and should not be submitted.
- Deliver the funded activity or service within the Banyule City Council municipal boundaries or demonstrate that the activity or service provides a direct benefit to Banyule residents
- Follow equal opportunity principles and work place health and safety practices.
- Have an ABN, or be willing to complete a “Statement by Supplier”
- Hold Public Liability Insurance up to $10,000,000 the time of project commencement and throughout the project.
- Have been established for a minimum of 12 months.
- Individual Applicants must:
- Have a project taking place in 2023/ 2024
- Be at least 18 years old.
- Work, live or provide significant evidence of engagement in the Banyule community.
- Be auspiced and administered by an incorporated entity (auspice fees up to 5% can be funded for individual applicants).
- The auspice organisation must satisfy group eligibility requirements.
- Hold Public Liability Insurance up to $10,000,000 at the time of project commencement and throughout the project. If you are covered under your Auspice Body’s Insurance, please include a letter from the Auspice Body stating this.
For more information, visit Environment Grants.
