Deadline: 01-Mar-2024
The Toowoomba Regional Council is pleased to announce the Environment Grants Program to support programs and projects that are of environmental benefit to their community.
Program Priorities
- The Environment Grants Program seeks to respond to Council’s vision, values, and goals, as outlined in the Corporate Plan 2019-2024, by providing support for projects that aim to achieve one or more of the following:
- Control of pests on Public Lands.
- Control of pests on Land used for Community Purposes.
- Habitat improvement on Public Lands.
- Habitat improvement on Land used for Community Purposes.
- Provide support for Landcare Initiatives.
- Provide support for Community Bushcare Initiatives.
- Provide support to groups/organisations caring for sick or injured native wildlife.
- Protect and manage air, land and water quality.
- Advance water, waste and energy efficiency.
- Improve the landscape amenity and environmental sustainability of community facilities and spaces.
- Encourage environmentally sustainable travel
- Reduce community carbon footprints (greenhouse gas emissions).
- Preference will be given to applications that:
- Produce measurable environmental outcomes.
- Establish a community and or environmental need.
- Demonstrate collaboration and partnership.
- Are not duplicating existing projects or activities.
Funding Information
- Grants of up to $7,500 are available through the Environment Grants Program. Grant funds are limited in individual amounts and total funds available.
Eligible Projects/Components
- Eligible projects are those which meet the program objectives. A wide range of support will be considered based on the merits and community benefit of the project, including but not limited to the following components:
- Assistance towards fees and compliance costs associated with undertaking approved projects.
- Assistance towards the procurement of goods and services associated with delivery of an approved project.
- Assistance towards feasibility studies, needs analyses or community consultations.
- Assistance towards planning, professional and application fees in preparing grant applications for larger projects.
- Assistance towards publicity and promotion of approved projects.
Ineligible Projects/Components
- Environment Grants will not fund:
- Loan or other debt repayments.
- Recurrent administration and running costs, such as:
- Regular wages.
- Regular office expenses.
- Rent, mortgage repayments or land purchases.
- Equipment that has a short life or needs regular replacement.
- Rates, utilities, energy, insurance or regulatory expenses.
- Projects with a commercial purpose.
Eligibility Criteria
- Organisations can apply for an Environment Grant if they:
- The organisation is an eligible community organisation or is under the auspices of an eligible community organisation as defined in the Community Grants Policy.
- The organisation operates or provides services within the Toowoomba Regional Council area.
- The organisation has an Australian Business Number (ABN).
- The application is for a project that does not form part of the core business of public and private educational institutions (primary, secondary, and tertiary including Parents & Citizens and Parents & Friends Associations) and demonstrates broader community benefit.
Ineligible
- The following, would not be eligible to apply:
- Individuals
- For-profit companies, trusts and other organisations
- Unions and student guilds
- Research foundations
- Professional associations
- An organisation that has been granted approval for support through a Toowoomba Regional Council program for the same project
- An organisation that has not acquitted an overdue TRC funded grant application
For more information, visit Toowoomba Regional Council.