Deadline: 12-Aug-2025
The Toowoomba Regional Council is accepting applications for its Environment Grant Program to support programs and projects that are of environmental benefit to the community.
Priorities
- The Environment Grants Program seeks to respond to Council’s vision, values, and goals, as outlined in the Corporate Plan 2019-2024, by providing support for projects that aim to achieve one or more of the following:
- Control of pests on Public Lands.
- Control of pests on Land used for Community Purposes.
- Habitat improvement on Public Lands.
- Habitat improvement on Land used for Community Purposes.
- Provide support for Landcare Initiatives.
- Provide support for Community Bushcare Initiatives.
- Provide support to groups/organisations caring for sick or injured native wildlife.
- Protect and manage air, land and water quality.
- Advance water, waste and energy efficiency.
- Improve the landscape amenity and environmental sustainability of community facilities and spaces.
- Encourage environmentally sustainable travel.
- Reduce community carbon footprints (greenhouse gas emissions).
Funding Information
- Grants of up to $7,500 are available through the environment grants program.
Eligible Projects
- A wide range of support will be considered based on the merits and community benefit of the project, including but not limited to the following components:
- Assistance towards fees and compliance costs associated with undertaking approved projects.
- Assistance towards the procurement of goods and services associated with delivery of an approved project.
- Assistance towards feasibility studies, needs analyses or community consultations.
- Assistance towards planning, professional and application fees in preparing grant applications for larger projects.
- Assistance towards publicity and promotion of approved projects.
Ineligible Projects
- Environment Grants will not fund:
- Loan or other debt repayments.
- Recurrent administration and running costs, such as:
- Regular wages
- Regular office expenses.
- Rent, mortgage repayments or land purchases.
- Equipment that has a short life or needs regular replacement.
- Rates, utilities, energy, insurance or regulatory expenses.
- Projects with a commercial purpose.
- Projects which are of a private as opposed to community benefit. (Note: For larger projects of both private and community benefit, only the portion of the project which is of community benefit shall be eligible for funding).
- Projects already funded by other Toowoomba Regional Council Grant programs.
- Prize money, trophies, raffle prizes or fundraising.
Eligibility Criteria
- Organisations can apply for an Environment Grant if they:
- The organisation is an eligible community organisation or is under the auspices of an eligible community organisation as defined in the Community Grants Policy.
- The organisation operates or provides services within the Toowoomba Regional Council area.
- The organisation has an Australian Business Number (ABN).
- The application is for a project that does not form part of the core business of public and private educational institutions (primary, secondary, and tertiary including Parents & Citizens and Parents & Friends Associations) and demonstrates broader community benefit.
Ineligibility Criteria
- The following are not eligible to apply:
- Individuals
- For-profit companies, Trusts and other organisations.
- Unions and student guilds.
- Research foundations.
- Professional associations.
- An organisation that has been granted approval for support through a Toowoomba Regional Council funding program for the same project.
- An organisation that has not acquitted an overdue TRC funded grant application
- Recipients who have previously defaulted on the conditions of funding.
Selection Criteria
- Applications must provide:
- Statement of Project need and Community Benefit statement;
- Statement of how the project meets the grant objectives statement;
- Plans, budgets, scope, estimates and/or quotes;
- Evidence of landholder consent where the project will be undertaken on land which is not the property of the applicant;
- Letters of support, funding confirmation etc;
- Evidence of other funding sought, and result.
For more information, visit Toowoomba Regional Council.