Community Facility Grants Program in Australia

Deadline: 30-Jun-23

The City of Gold Coast has launched the applications for Community Facility Grants Program to provide financial contributions for capital works involving maintenance, renewal or improvements to assets on City-controlled land that support community, sport, recreational and educational activities.

The City's main infrastructure funding program for community groups is the Community Facility Grants Program.

The Community Facility Grants Program allocates funding each financial year to support the delivery of capital projects on Council-controlled land where a community organisation holds a lease or licence. Applications can be either for shovel ready projects, or “seed” funding for conceptual ideas to fully scope, plan, design and obtain cost estimates for a future project.

Types of Projects that will be considered

• Facility renovations and upgrades;
• Change rooms, amenities, club house improvements;
• Sports specific infrastructure (dug outs, scoreboards etc);
• Seed funding to investigate feasibility and planning needs for a project.

Funding Information

• Applications from $5000 to $250,000 are welcomed.

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.
• 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.

Ineligible Projects

• Funding for operational costs.
• Repayment of a debt.
• Fundraising.
• Reimbursement of costs for projects already commenced or projects that do not meet criteria.

For more information, visit Community Facility Grants.

For more information, visit https://www.goldcoast.qld.gov.au/Council-region/Grants-funding-development-programs/Community-Facility-Grants-Program