Deadline: 31-Aug-23
The Shire of Murray is now accepting applications for its Community Assistance Partnership Fund (CAPF) to provide support for Murray not-for-profit organisations to:
- Build and strengthen their organisational capacity or sustainability
- Foster community engagement, social inclusion and participation in community life
- Activate places and facilities
- Protect the environment
- Create safe and healthy communities
Supports
- To support community groups to:
- Build and strengthen their organisational capacity and sustainability; or
- Deliver events, projects, programs or facilities that benefit the Murray Community or address a well evidenced need, and effectively contribute to building engaged, vibrant, inclusive and healthy communities.
Focus Areas
- Applications should meet at least one of the following priority focus areas:
- building the capacity and sustainability of community organisations;
- encouraging community engagement and participation in community life or activation of places and facilities;
- encouraging social inclusion;
- protection of the environment;
- supporting the development of and participation in arts and culture;
- supporting a safe and healthy community;
- promoting increased physical activity;
- increasing support or services to priority target groups including families, children, youth, seniors, indigenous, culturally diverse backgrounds, people with disability and people of low socio economic background; and/or
- supporting or promoting youth leadership including the enhancement of the wellbeing of young people.
Priorities
- For applications that meet the focus areas and have strong community benefit, priority will be given to:
- Events, projects and initiatives that are new and address a well evidenced need or gap within the Shire, which may include, but not be limited to the promotion or celebration of multiculturalism, the arts, health & wellbeing and/or the environment.
- Events, projects and initiatives that demonstrate sustainability in the future.
Funding Information
- Applications are invited three times each financial year with a maximum grant allocation of $3,000 (plus GST), per group per annum.
Eligibility Criteria
- To be eligible, applicants must:
- submit an application on the official application form, by the closing date;
- be an incorporated not-for-profit organisation;
- hold current public liability insurance;
- not have outstanding acquittals with the Shire or Alcoa Australia, and
- agree to comply with Local, State and Commonwealth laws applicable to the approved project or event.
For more information, visit Shire of Murray.