Deadline: 30-Jun-23
The City of Albany is now inviting applications for its Quick Response Grants for small grants of up to $1,000 for proposals that fall outside the City’s annual Community Funding Program.
Funding Priorities
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Applications must address at least one of the funding priorities to be eligible for assessment:
- Increasing community engagement and participation in local events and in community life, in particular by marginalised or disadvantaged population groups.
- Improving the health and wellbeing of local communities.
- Helping communities shape, understand and celebrate their identity, history and heritage.
What Can I Apply For?
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Grants can be used for most aspects of an activity, including:
- Programming costs, including fees for presenters, instructors and performers (including travel costs);
- Production and venue costs, including materials and equipment hire;
- Marketing costs associated with promoting the funded activity;
- Council sponsorship for a one-off event or activity;
- Purchase of materials in order to deliver the activity.
Eligibility Criteria
- Quick Response Grants are available to not-for-profit and incorporated community organisations based in the City of Albany, or which have a demonstrated, principal interest in the City.
- Individuals who are residents of the City of Albany and have a sponsoring, incorporated community group prepared to auspice the funds on their behalf and they can demonstrate specific benefits to the Albany community.
- Unincorporated organisations may seek the services of an incorporated body (sponsor) to auspice the activity on their behalf. The sponsor will be required to accept legal and financial responsibility for delivering the activity.
Ineligible Applications
- Individuals to attend sporting, conferences or training (please refer to the City’s Community Leadership Grants for these activities);
- Retrospective or deficit funding;
- Recurrent expenditure such as salaries, wages, electricity, insurance, water, rates and other core organisational operating costs;
- Fees associated with administering the grant funding;
- Equipment purchases;
- Registration days, fundraising projects, prizes and trophies;
- Structural or capital works to facilities, including restoration or conservation works;
- Schools, government or quasi-government agencies.
For more information, visit City of Albany.
For more information, visit https://www.albany.wa.gov.au/facilities/community/community-funding-sponsorship.aspx
