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.
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