Deadline: 30-Jun-24
The City of Sydney is offering grants to supports small scale, community-led projects that encourage communities to take action to improve, enhance, represent or celebrate their local neighbourhoods.
Funding Priorities
- The funding will prioritise projects that support:
- vulnerable communities and those with the greatest need
- individuals and teams that are selected to participate in events in the sporting, academic, cultural or environmental fields
- resilience and readiness of diverse communities to respond to shocks
- sustainability and environmental projects such as community gardens, green roofs and walls, urban ecology and green workshops
- cultural projects such as public art, cultural workshops and community art projects
- minor capital works, equipment upgrades and acoustic attenuation for cultural venues
- local civic activities and events
- essential emergency support for community, cultural and sustainability projects.
- They encourage applications from organisations, groups and individuals that support Aboriginal and Torres and Strait Islander communities and culture, including Aboriginal community-controlled organisations and networks.
Funding information
- Cash funding up to $10,000 is available, for projects to be delivered within 12 months.
- Value-in-kind in the form of venue hire is also available.
- Applicants can apply for up to $10,000 worth of capital expenditure or equipment purchase.
- Applicants can include the cost of necessary insurances in their application.
Eligibility Criteria
- To be eligible for funding, applicants must:
- operate within the City of Sydney’s local government area or be able to demonstrate significant benefits for the area’s residents, workers and/or visitors
- meet the grant program eligibility criteria stated in the guidelines
- have acquitted any previous City of Sydney grants or sponsorships and met all contractual obligations
- have no outstanding debts owing to the City of Sydney
- demonstrate the grant will be used for a purpose in the public interest
- demonstrate capacity to deliver the project
- be financially viable.
- To be eligible an applicant must operate within the City of Sydney’s local government area or be able to demonstrate significant benefits for the area’s residents, workers and/or visitors.
- These individuals and organisations can apply:
- Not-for-profit organisations
- Individuals or unincorporated community groups auspiced by a not-for-profit that is eligible to apply in their own right.
- If you work with an auspicing organisation, they encourage you to choose one that is relevant to the sector and that can support the development of the proposal.
Ineligible
- Funding is not available for:
- ongoing project, event or program funding
- operational costs or overheads for the core business of an organisation
- projects that duplicate existing services
- projects that directly contravene the eligibility and ethics framework or existing City of Sydney policies.
For more information, visit City of Sydney.