Deadline: 30-Jun-23
The City of Sydney is now inviting applications for its Quick Response Grants to support small-scale initiatives for local residents and organisations.
This grant program supports small scale, community-led projects that encourage communities to take action to improve, enhance, represent or celebrate their local neighbourhoods.
Funding Priorities
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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 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.
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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.
For more information, visit City of Sydney.
For more information, visit https://www.cityofsydney.nsw.gov.au/community-support-funding/quick-response-grants