Deadline: 16-Jun-23
The Bayside City Council’s New Program or Community Initiative Grants provides seed funding of up to of $5,000 to new community projects to establish their viability and attract alternate funding sources.
Funding Information
- Grants upto $5,000.
Ineligible Projects
Grants will not be made:
- for recurrent funding where there is no plan for long term sustainability of the initiative.
- for initiatives deemed ‘business as usual’ or items considered ongoing operational costs.
- for capital works including permanent structures or anything that increases the value of your facility.
- for initiatives implemented or completed prior to the application being submitted.
- for initiatives that are the responsibility of State or Federal government including those that form part of a school’s curriculum.
- for initiatives that only advocate religion or faith.
- for initiatives that have already been funded through another Bayside grant program.
- to organisations that have an outstanding debt to Council or have not satisfactorily acquitted a previous grant.
Eligibility Criteria
- Not for profit, community organisations residing within Bayside, or providing services to residents of Bayside, are eligible to apply. All applications will be assessed on an individual basis and will be determined in accordance with the assessment criteria.
- To be considered eligible:
- The applicant must be a not-for-profit organisation.
- The applicant must be either
- an incorporated association or similar legal entity; or
- auspiced by another organisation that is incorporated (or has a similar legal identity) and can manage the grant on behalf of the applicant.
- The applicant organisation (or auspicing body) must have public liability insurance that is deemed appropriate by Council’s Risk Manager.
- The applicant must
- have a membership that is wholly or significantly made up of people who are Bayside residents or ratepayers; and/or
- submit a grant proposal that benefits the Bayside community.
- Projects or initiatives that meet the funding purpose of an alternative Council grant (for example, Events and Festivals or Fundraising) will be referred to the more appropriate stream.
- Applications will not be considered if they do not meet these basic eligibility criteria. Grants will not be made to individuals.
- An organisation that acts as an Auspice Organisation may also apply for a grant in its own right for a separate project.
- Generally, a limit of one grant will be funded per grant stream per financial year per organisation however, where a grant application has been assessed as having a strong community benefit, additional grant applications may be considered for funding.
For more information, visit Bayside City Council.
