Deadline: 8-May-25
The Queensland Department of Youth Justice and Victim Support is inviting applications for its Kickstarter Grant Program to trial and test the best ideas to provide innovative early intervention programs designed to reduce youth crime and boost engagement with education, training and employment.
These grants focus on enhancing community safety and reducing the number of victims of crime. They prioritise regionally driven, community-led initiatives and are available for short-term, time-limited responses to local youth crime.
Objective
- Kickstarter Grants aim to support initiatives that target young people, aged between 8-17 years to reduce youth crime by addressing their risks and needs that contribute to their early criminal and anti-social behaviour. Programs will help young people to re-engage with education, training, or employment and address criminogenic risk factors to improve understanding of the consequences of anti-social behaviour and youth crime. Programs will also provide the holistic support, connections, and guidance to get them back on track.
Funding Information
- Grants of up to $300,000 will be available per application.
- Duration: If successful, it is generally expected the project/s are expected to be established quickly with service delivery starting within 10-12 weeks of contract commencement.
Eligible Activities
- Your proposal can be for:
- Programs:
- Involves working with the same group of young people over a set period.
- There’s a structured curriculum or set of activities designed to achieve specific outcomes.
- Projects:
- Projects encompass a range of initiatives, including programs, aimed at addressing broader community needs.
- They are typically longer-term initiatives lasting months, designed to tackle various aspects of an issue or goal.
- Events:
- Events must be delivered as part of the broader program response and not as stand-alone activities.
- Single-serve content delivery to a particular group, like a presentation or a community event. That singular delivery may happen multiple times but to different groups.
- Programs:
Ineligible Activities
- Funding provided through these grants can only be used for the purpose of delivering the approved Kickstarter Grant initiative. The following costs or use of funds will not be allowed:
- salaries and organisational running costs for existing staff performing usual business operations
- acquittal, auditing, evaluation or reporting costs
- auspicing fees (for anything other than this specific project)
- existing debt or loan repayments
- research projects.
Eligibility Criteria
- Applicants can be a single organisation, individual, joint partners, or combined organisations. Any type of registered legal entity is eligible to apply.
- Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander not-for-profit organisations and businesses are strongly encouraged to apply.
- Small and medium sized business are also strongly encouraged to apply.
- There must be one lead agency that will be legally accountable for the activity and grant expenditure. The lead agency must:
- be either an incorporated not-for-profit, registered business or legal entity; or
- have an auspice agreement with any of the above entities (which is to be detailed in your application).
- have a registered and current Australian Business Number (ABN) or Australian Company Number (ACN).
- have experience delivering services in Queensland.
- hold public liability insurance to the value of not less than $10 million or, provide evidence of plans to obtain insurance to the value of not less than $10 million to cover the proposed project.
- have no overdue reports, or service delivery or performance issues for funding previously or currently provided by the Department of Children, Youth Justice, and Multicultural Affairs, or the Department of Youth Justice, Employment, Small Business and Training.
Ineligibility Criteria
- State and Federal Government agencies are not eligible to apply.
For more information, visit Queensland Government.