Deadline: 11-Mar-2024
The Boroondara Community Strengthening Grants program provides funding to community organisations, groups and clubs for projects and activities that strengthen the community by encouraging participation in community life, addressing community needs, and improving the health and wellbeing of Boroondara residents.
Small Grants provide a timely response of financial support for projects and equipment costs associated with the delivery of new one-off services, programs and activities that strengthen the Boroondara community
Funding Information
- Up to $3,000 is available for small projects, with a maximum of $2,000 available for equipment purposes within a project or separate from a project.
Small Grants Funding Streams
- Active Community: sports and recreation
- This stream is for recreation, sport and physical activity opportunities that meet the needs of the community (now and in the future) and enhance the functionality of public recreation spaces for a wide range of uses.
- Active Community stream objectives
- provide new and innovative opportunities for local sport, physical activity and social connection
- enhance participation in both structured (e.g. team sports) and non-structured (e.g. walking and cycling) sport and recreation opportunities for a diverse range of resident’s participants e.g. females, LGBTIQA+, culturally and linguistically diverse, older adults, people with disability etc.
- Creative Community: arts and culture
- This stream is for diverse arts and cultural programs, festivals, events and activities that enhance arts, culture and heritage practice across Boroondara.
- Creative Community stream objectives
- This stream supports the development and delivery of artistic and cultural activities that:
- promote health, wellbeing, safety and/or a sense of community within Boroondara
- offer life-long learning opportunities for Boroondara’s diverse community
- Healthy Community: health, safety and wellbeing
- This stream is for projects and activities that promote safety, good health and wellbeing of individuals, families and community groups, across all ages, abilities, multicultural and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander backgrounds.
- Healthy Community stream objectives:
- support programs and activities that promote health, wellbeing, community safety, and prevention of violence and injury
- build connected and inclusive communities
- Life-long Community: opportunities for over-55s
- This stream supports older people (aged 55 years and over) to develop opportunities that maximise quality of life, social connections, and the ability to participate and engage in the community through the provision of programs, activities, volunteering and community sharing projects.
- Life-long Community stream objectives:
- enhance older peoples’ health and wellbeing and participation in the community
- improve older peoples’ access and mobility around the community
- Sustainable Community: environmental sustainability
- This stream is available for projects and programs that build community capacity to live sustainably and ensure their natural environment is healthy and sustainable for future generations through the efficient use of resources, reduction in waste and the protection of their local biodiversity.
- Sustainable Community stream objectives
- increase community awareness and understanding of environmental sustainability
- showcase their natural environment as healthy and sustainable for future generations
- Vibrant Retail Precincts
- This stream is available to eligible community organisations to deliver initiatives, projects and activities that increase the vibrancy and functionality of retail precincts, enhance a sense of community and pride, and promote a ‘buy local’ ethos. Applications under this stream must be developed in consultation with, and supported by, relevant trader association/s (if not led by a trader association).
- Vibrant Retail Precincts stream objectives:
- increase visitation showcasing the retail precinct
- increase spending in local business
Eligibility Criteria
- To be eligible for a Small Grant, your organisation must:
- provide direct benefits to residents of the City of Boroondara (local organisations are prioritised)
- be not-for-profit, as classified by the Australian Tax Office in the Income Tax Assessment Act (1936)
- be a registered legally constituted entity (e.g. a co-operative, incorporated association or company limited by guarantee) or have an auspice (unless requesting less than $1,000)
- have an Australian Business Number (ABN), or complete a Statement by Supplier form, or hold an exemption from registration
- have a committee of management that accepts responsibility for the administration of the grant
- hold an adequate public liability insurance policy to cover the staff, members and the general public, as appropriate
- not have its own grant giving program or fundraising program that provides money to finance another organisation’s community initiatives
- have satisfactorily accounted to Council for the expenditure of any previous Council grants (if relevant)
Ineligible
- The following will not be funded:
- individuals and private profit-making organisations
- applications from groups or organisations that have an operating budget over $1 million annually (organisations acting as an auspice and neighbourhood houses are exempt from this rule)
- professional fees (e.g. labour, salary, wages) and administration costs (e.g. phone calls, correspondence, stationery)
- organisations or groups that:
- own or operate poker machines
- explicitly promote sports betting
- meet in venues that have gaming machines.
For more information, visit Boroondara Community.