Deadline: 22-Aug-23
The City of Sydney is seeking applications to support small scale, community-led projects that encourage communities to take action to improve, enhance, represent or celebrate their local neighbourhoods.
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;
- 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.
- 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.
- Applicants may be required to provide further information to verify the structure of the applicant’s entity. For example, not-for-profits including registered charities and social enterprises must be able to demonstrate they are a registered with ACNC or properly constituted with a statement of purpose/constitution reflecting that the applicant is not-for-profit.
- Individuals and unincorporated community groups applying for any cash grant will require an auspice by an eligible organization.
Ineligibility Criteria
- The City of Sydney does not provide grants and sponsorships for projects that:
- duplicate existing services or programs
- have already occurred (no retrospective funding)
- do not meet the identified priority needs of the City of Sydney area
- directly contravene the eligibility and ethics framework or existing City of Sydney policies.
- They do not accept duplicate applications. Applications that are submitted to more than one program for the same project in a round will only be considered in one program.
- Grants and sponsorships do not cover:
- general donations to charities (donations and support for charities are covered by the City of Sydney’s support for charities policy)
- activities that could be perceived as benefiting a political party and/or political party campaign
- activities that could be perceived as divisive within the community
- waiver of fees for development applications, health inspection fees, health approvals, street closures and
- other approvals and other similar statutory charges
- City of Sydney staff in their capacity as individuals, although they may participate and contribute to projects
- in their private capacity where the grants are auspiced by other entities.
- They do not provide in-house design, printing and distribution services, or cleansing and waste services for events. However, organisations may apply for funding to undertake these activities themselves.
For more information, visit City of Sydney.