Deadline: 30-Aug-21
The Sunshine Coast Regional Council is inviting applications for the Environment Levy Grants (ELG) to not-for-profit community based organisations to fund projects that make a positive and ongoing contribution to the region’s biodiversity and waterways.
Priorities
Priority is given to non-recurrent projects that:
- contribute to landscape scale protection, monitoring and rehabilitation of biodiversity, which include native plants and animals and waterways
- build community capacity, engagement and participation in biodiversity, waterways and pest management
- adapt and respond to environmental challenges, e.g. pest plants and animals
Funding Information
Grant range up to $5,000 is available.
Eligible Projects
To be eligible for funding, applications must:
- demonstrate a purpose that is in the public interest
- be consistent with council’s Environment Levy Policy
- link to council’s Corporate Plan and environmental strategies, specifically Environment and Liveability Strategy 2017 and Sunshine Coast Local Government Area Biosecurity Plan 2017
- adhere to the specific terms and conditions of this funding program.
Eligibility Criteria
- Community organisations which meet all of the following criteria:
- operate within the Sunshine Coast Local Government Area (LGA) or are able to demonstrate that the project or program will benefit residents and environment of the Sunshine Coast LGA
- have appropriate insurance and adhere to sound Workplace Health and Safety practices
- are able to demonstrate viability
- have no debt to council, or have entered into scheduled payment arrangements with council which are being adhered to
- have met acquittal conditions for previous council grants.
- If a community organisation is not a legal entity or recognised by the Australian Taxation Office as a not-for-profit type, then the application must be auspiced and administered by such a group.
- Applicants may submit only one grant application per round.
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