Deadline: 4-Oct-22
The New South Wales Government has announced the ‘Our Region, Our Voice’ Regional Youth Investment Program to improve the lives and wellbeing of young people in regional areas, in line with identified areas of need in regional NSW.
Objectives
The objective of the 'Our Region, Our Voice' Regional Youth Investment Program is to genuinely reflect the needs and aspirations of regional young people in NSW to:
- Learn, work and achieve in regional NSW
- Be mentally and physically healthy, safe and thrive in their communities
- Explore their creativity, collaborate with other teams, develop a sense of achievement and feel socially and culturally connected to their communities
- Have transport and digital connectivity solutions to access training, work services and recreational activities; and
- Be place based and reflect the diversity of young people's needs across regional NSW.
Nine investment themes across Four Pillars have been identified in our Regional Youth Insights to address the specific challenges that young people encounter where they live.
The Program directs resources to strategies that will make the difference needed to address the unique challenges encountered by regional youth and maximize local opportunities.
Funding Information
- There is up to $40 million available for eligible projects. This funding will be allocated across nine investment themes, aligned with the four pillars of the framework.
- Minimum grant funding is $150,000
- Maximum grant funding is $3,000,000
Eligible Projects
Projects must be for initiatives that boost and support regional youth's work-readiness, wellbeing, physical or digital connectivity or links to the community. Successful projects will address one or more of the investment themes identified by the Office for Regional Youth.
A project must be for:
- Delivering projects that benefit the local youth community and provide public benefit to young people (this is not limited to physical projects and can include teaching, life skills etc.)
- Fit out of or upgrades to existing, local community infrastructure to assist the delivery of general or targeted youth community projects
- Infrastructure to assist the delivery of targeted youth community projects
- Community projects and infrastructure which assist in improvement and promotion of accessibility and inclusion for youth
- Community projects and infrastructure which assist in improvement of community participation, liveable communities and accessibility and inclusion outcomes for youth.
Eligibility Criteria
- A local council recognized under relevant NSW legislation (excluding Greater Sydney Wollongong and Newcastle)
- Regional joint organization of councils
- Section 355 Committees of Councils must apply in the name of the relevant Council and must have permission to apply
- A not-for-profit and community organizations registered with the Australian Charities and not-for-profits Commission (ACNC)
- An association registered with NSW Fair Trading under the Associations Incorporation Act 2009
- An incorporated entity with an Australian Business Number (ABN) or an Australian Company Number (ACN)
- A Local Aboriginal Land Council
- The Lord Howe Island Board
- An unincorporated Far West group
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Eligible Local Government Areas
- Projects must be in one of the 93 regional NSW Local Government Areas, Lord Howe Island or the Unincorporated Far West. Projects in Greater Sydney, Newcastle and Wollongong are not eligible.
- Applicants are not required to be located within an eligible project location however should ensure that all relevant permissions are obtained. It is advisable to also include letters of support to demonstrate the project need in that location in the application.
For more information, visit NSW.
For more information, visit https://www.nsw.gov.au/grants-and-funding/our-region-our-voice-regional-youth-investment-program
