Deadline: 31-Jan-2025
Applications are now open for the Micro Grants program to provide financial assistance to community groups and associations that meet recognised community needs as identified in the Council’s Community Development Strategy or Bundaberg Regional Sport and Recreation Strategy.
This Community Development Strategy outlines Bundaberg Regional Council’s priorities for community development in the Region. This strategy is designed to create and encourage a community where everyone contributes, matters and belongs. The aspiration is to better connect the community sector, people and communities. This includes helping to respond and adapt to changes, such as socio economic or population variances, and using local opportunities both in real time and online.
Sport and Recreation Strategy: The Sport and Recreation Strategy (the Strategy) aims to guide and structure the provision of sport and recreation programs and infrastructure across the Bundaberg Region between 2018 – 2028. The Strategy will enable Council to develop opportunities for the community to participate in, and lead more active and healthy lifestyles. Additionally, it will assist local community sport and recreation organisations to identify community needs and develop facility plans that will provide the best opportunity to access financial support through future funding opportunities.
The Strategy provides Council with the detail to increase their understanding of the community’s current and likely future sport and recreation needs and supports the provision, management, development and delivery of sport and recreation by:
- identifying current and projected sport and recreation needs
- providing a planned and coordinated approach for the future provision, management and development of sport and recreation facilities
- clarifying the role of Council and other stakeholders (e.g. community clubs and groups, the private sector, and government authorities) in the provision of sport and recreation opportunities
- providing a prioritised range of tasks and actions that Council and other stakeholders can undertake over the next ten years to maximise residents’ access to sport and recreation opportunities
- providing a spatial representation of Council’s sport and recreation facilities and services
- clarifying Council’s role with the provision of foreshore, river and water stored infrastructure including boat ramps, jetties etc.
Funding Information
- The maximum amount available from the Micro Grants Program per application is $1,000.
What they can’t fund?
- General operating costs (electricity, rates, phone, rent, meals, accommodation, maintenance, insurances etc)
- An event, activity, or proposal (regardless of the group/organisation) approved in the previous financial year.
- Council fees and charges (facilities/assets/licenses etc)
- Individual, private and commercial ventures
- Cash and/or prize money
- Items purchased for the sole purpose of fundraising
- Insurance (public or general liability etc)
- Projects to repair design faults
- Drawings and schematic designs that do not have committed capital funding
- Projects under litigation
- Relocation costs
- Retrospective funding
- Purchase of land/buildings/facilities
- Item-based recurrent funding
- Clothing/uniforms (e.g. sports shirts)
- Ongoing salaries/wages for staff (a position created for the length of a project is considered eligible)
- Projects that do not involve the Bundaberg Regional Council community.
Who can apply?
- Bundaberg Regional Council based not-for-profit groups/organisations.
- Groups/organisations who have a current Public Liability Certificate.
- Majority of members residing in the Bundaberg Regional Council area.
- Have acquitted any previous Council grant satisfactorily.
- Auspice organisations who meet criteria and accept legal and financial responsibility for your project.
Who can’t apply?
- Groups/ organisations that have received a Council grant or other Council financial assistance except for a Special Events Grant in the previous or current financial year.
- Groups/ organisation who have not satisfactorily acquitted a previous Council grant.
- Political and for-profit groups.
- Schools and Universities.
For more information, visit Bundaberg Regional Council.