Deadline: 12-Apr-22
The Foundation for Rural & Regional Renewal (FRRR) is offering grants under Strengthening Rural Communities (SRC) program to give the thousands of small remote, rural and regional communities across Australia an opportunity to access funding to support broad community needs.
Grants are available for a broad range of grassroots, community-led initiatives that directly and clearly benefit local communities.
Objectives
Projects funded must align with one or more of the following charitable outcomes:
- Bringing people and community organizations together to foster stronger, more resilient communities;
- Fostering and celebrating a sense of identity, diversity, and cultural connection within the community;
- Improving community health and social wellbeing;
- Enabling people to develop skills, knowledge, and confidence to lead and contribute to the prosperity and renewal of their community;
- Building a sustainable volunteer base and/or supporting the wellbeing of volunteers;
- Celebrating and resourcing volunteer-led efforts;
- Increasing access and inclusion for vulnerable and disadvantaged groups, including remote communities;
- Enhancing places where communities gather;
- Promoting connection to place and enabling initiatives that champion a community's social, cultural, or economic aspirations;
- Increasing capacity and capability of local community organizations to support preparedness and recovery from natural disasters;
- Enabling locally-led responses within rural, regional, and remote communities endeavoring to reduce the impacts of the changing climate within their community.
Funding Information
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Rebuilding Regional Communities Stream – Two funding tiers
- Grants up to $10,000 for communities with fewer than 50,000 people;
- Grants up to $50,000 (offered twice a year until November 2023) for communities that are classified as remote, rural, or regional as defined by the Australian Bureau of Statistics’ Australian Geography Standards.
- Projects that enhance the process of recovery of remote, rural, and regional communities from the COVID pandemic;
- Projects that reduce social isolation and foster stronger, more resilient remote, rural and regional communities; and/or
- Projects that sustain local, remote, rural and regional organizations and their work.
What can be funded?
A broad range of charitable projects is considered under this program, including:
- Delivering, or providing activities, events, programs, and services;
- Purchasing or hiring equipment and materials;
- Community infrastructure projects;
- Organizational capacity building;
- Community resource development.
- Supporting, training, or attracting volunteers;
- Events and activities to reconnect the community;
- Enhancing community spaces to increase community use;
- Developing services and support to assist vulnerable people and people experiencing disadvantage; and
- Purchase of equipment or resources to strengthen organizations that support communities.
What can't be funded?
- There are several areas that they can't fund through this program.
- Projects that support core business and areas of responsibility of Federal, State, or Local Governments;
- The encouragement or advancement of sport, recreation, and social activities are not considered charitable activities under Australian law. Applications from sporting organizations need to clearly demonstrate charitable outcomes and benefit to the wider community that are above and beyond the sporting activities of the club;
- Overseas travel and overseas projects;
- Prizes, gifts, trophies, or awards;
- Political lobbying;
- Projects that primarily benefit private business, a sole trader, or private interests;
- Projects solely focused on animal welfare.
- Purchase of land;
- Non-project-related staff training and development costs.
Eligibility Criteria
To apply, your organization must meet the following criteria:
- Applicant organizations must be not-for-profit organizations with either an Incorporation Certificate and/or an ABN. If you are unsure if your organization is a registered not-for-profit.
- Project must be for charitable purposes and offer clear public benefit;
- Organizations with or without DGR endorsement are eligible;
- Organizations can submit one application per grant round;
- For Bushfire Recovery Stream, applicants must be in a declared fire-affected area;
- Projects must benefit communities in remote, rural, or regional Australia.
For more information, visit FRRR.
For more information, visit https://frrr.org.au/funding/place/strengthening-rural-communities/