Deadline: 16-Jan-23
Queensland Government is inviting applications for the Food Rescue Grant Program that provides grants of up to $500,000 to food rescue organisations for infrastructure, equipment and operational costs to divert additional food from landfill and redistribute it to Queenslanders in need.
The Program will support food rescue organisations to expand their operations with funding for essential infrastructure, equipment and operational costs.
Objectives
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The objectives of the Program are to:
- Increase the diversion of food waste from landfill in Queensland to assist in meeting the actions and objectives of the Organics Strategy
- Support food rescue organisations to increase their capacity to rescue more food and provide it to Queenslanders in need.
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Activities to build future capacity and long-term transformation in the food rescue sector will be highly regarded. This may include activities that develop and adopt:
- New products and/or packaging to improve transport opportunities and efficiencies and facilitate a geographic expansion to food distribution
- New markets and distribution networks to provide food to more Queenslanders in need
- New partnerships within the food supply chain to assist in matching the availability of rescued food to growing demand.
Funding Information
- Applicants can apply for a minimum of $25,000 (excluding GST) and a maximum of $500,000 (excluding GST).
Eligibility Criteria
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To be eligible to apply for the Program, applicants must:
- Be a not-for-profit organisation incorporated under section 111K of the Corporations Act 2001.
- Be an organisation with the primary purpose of food rescue and providing food relief to Queenslanders.
- Have operations established in Queensland.
- Rescue, process and/or distribute food that would otherwise be lost from the food supply chain to landfill.
- Be the entity that bears the cost and responsibility for the project.
- Be able to complete the project and related reporting and acquittal requirements.
- Applications that do not meet the eligibility criteria will be deemed ineligible and will not be assessed. The Program is a competitive program with no guarantee that applications will be funded or funded in full.
- Eligible projects The Program will only fund eligible costs associated with eligible projects.
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Eligible Projects must:
- Be undertaken by the applicant organisation within Queensland.
- Increase the applicant organisation’s ability to rescue, process and/or distribute food for beneficiaries in Queensland.
- Be an expansion of an existing service or a new service.
- Divert additional food from landfill All applicants will need to demonstrate that the project results in an increase in food rescue and/or distribution capacity of food diverted from landfill.
For more information, visit Queensland Government.
For more information, visit https://www.qld.gov.au/environment/management/waste/recovery/funding-grants#food-rescue