Deadline: 30-Jun-22
The City of Gold Coast is seeking applications for its Community Facility Grants Program to support the delivery of capital projects on Council-controlled land where a community organisation holds a lease or licence.
Objectives
- Council of the City of Gold Coast (Council) demonstrates high standards of corporate governance in the administration of its grants programs.
- Council administers its grants programs in a manner which aligns to Council’s Corporate Plan and key City strategies.
- Council uses its grants programs to respond to community issues and trends and to provide opportunities for social inclusion and community engagement.
- Council ensures public confidence in the effective and efficient management of Council resources provided to grant recipients.
- Council ensures transparent, fair and effective processes for decision making with its community grant programs.
- Council’s discretionary funds are administered in accordance with the discretionary funding provisions of the Local Government Regulation 2012
Funding Information
Applications from $5000 to $250,000 are welcome
Project requirements
Applicants must be able to demonstrate:
- a public interest benefit for the project
- that the project has a defined outcome that will benefit residents of the Gold Coast
- that all eligibility requirements have been met
- that the project can be delivered within the timeframe and budget proposed in the community organisation’s application.
Eligibility Criteria
Applicants must:
- be a community organisation
- operate within the Gold Coast
- hold (or have approval from Council to hold) a lease or licence over Council-controlled land
- not have any outstanding maintenance works or rectification notices pursuant to any leasehold interest over Council-controlled land
- have an adequate level of public liability insurance for the project (where appropriate)
- not be an ineligible applicant.
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