Cultivating Community Gardens Grants – Australia

Deadline: 30-Aug-21

Applications are now open for the Brisbane City Council’s Cultivating Community Gardens Grants to provide funding to local non-profit community-based groups and organisations to establish, develop and/or maintain community gardens on Council-owned and other land.

Funding Information

Funding amounts range from $1000 to $2500.

What can be funded?

The Cultivating Community Gardens Grants can be used to fund new or existing community garden projects for:

Tools, materials and equipment that are directly used in completing the project (note: materials such as timbers or sleepers must not be treated with chromated copper arsenate)
Services relating to the establishment/maintenance of the garden
Facilities and structures that are essential to the functioning of the garden
Education and awareness designed to develop skills of group members
Publicity and programs that increase wider community involvement and education about the gardens and their activities
Operating or administration expenses associated with the development, implementation and completion of the project
Materials and plumbing costs to construct a small scale raingarden; raised garden beds which use plants and free draining soils to capture, filter and treat pollutants typically found in stormwater.

Eligibility Criteria

The applicant organisation must be a non-profit community based organisation that is incorporated, or be auspiced by a non-profit incorporated body that is able to accept legal and financial responsibility for the project and its activities.
Grants will only be available to organisations and projects within the City of Brisbane local government area.
Applicants (and their auspice) must not have outstanding debts or overdue, unacquitted grants with Council.
The project must be of benefit to the broader community and be conducted on land accessible to the broader community.
For schools to be eligible for the Cultivating Community Gardens Grants the community garden must:
- be accessible to the broader community
- have broader community participation
- have food gardens linked to curriculum outcomes.
Community gardens must be prepared to register on the Council community gardens webpage, indicating their openness for involvement of the wider community in their garden.
The project must have written approval from the land owner or the Regional Council Co-ordinator (land manager representative) if on Council land.