Deadline: 4-Oct-22
The City of Canning is seeking applications for the Enriching Canning Grants to support activities that provide an inclusive, safe, and vibrant community in the City of Canning.
Funding Information
Maximum Grant available: $5,000
Activities
Inclusive activities, programs and events should meet one or more of the following:
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Connect
- Create opportunities for shared cultural and artistic expression
- Promote awareness and appreciation of Aboriginal culture and heritage
- Facilitate connections, learning and activities for all
- Build the capacity of your organisation to respond to identified community need
- Foster collaboration between groups, business and stakeholders
- Advocate and deliver opportunities for healthy activity and lifestyles
- Facilitate and partner to deliver a range of recreation and leisure services/ facilities
- Collaborate to ensure safe places and spaces for all
- Nurture connections between people and the places they share
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Enhance
- Advocate for and deliver well-managed natural areas supporting biodiversity and appropriate recreation
- Undertake activities to minimise and reuse waste
- Enhance the health of the Canning River, waterways and surrounding natural areas
- Reduce reliance on fossil fuels and optimise the use of natural resources
- Raise awareness and engage with others to protect, respect and enjoy the natural environment
- Promote and educate the community on sustainability and waste management practices
- Proactively respond to the impacts of climate change
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Lead
- Promote social inclusion and equitable access to all
Eligibility Criteria
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Applicants must reside, be located and/or operate in the City of Canning. Not for profit organisations, excluding sporting clubs, which have offices outside Canning but deliver services to Canning residents may apply. Activities must take place within the City of Canning boundaries. The following are eligible for the outlined grant levels:
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Grants up to $500
- Individuals and non-incorporated groups.
- Not-for Profit organisations.
- Government and Not-for-Profit kindergartens, primary and secondary schools2.
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Grants greater than $500
- Incorporated Not-for-Profit organisations.
- Government and Not-for-Profit kindergartens, primary and secondary schools.
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Grants up to $500
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Individuals must:
- Demonstrate support from a Canning based not-for-profit organisation e.g. letter of support towards the proposal.
- Ensure the activity does not lead to any private business benefits.
- Gift any equipment to the supporting not-for-profit organisation following the completion of the activity.
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Primary and Secondary Schools must:
- Be able to demonstrate the wider community benefit in proposals. Activities are to be held outside of school hours or where activities are held during school hours, the wider community must be able to attend and benefit. Equipment solely for the use of students and teachers is not eligible as this is best funded by other Government Departments.
- Eligible applicants may apply once to each grant category per financial year
- One application to each grant category per activity will be accepted. E.g. Two organisations are unable to apply separately for the same activity
For more information, visit City of Canning.
For more information, visit https://www.canning.wa.gov.au/our-community/community-initiatives/community-grants-program/enriching-canning-grants