Deadline: 10-Feb-23
The NSW Government is seeking applications for its Local Sport Defibrillator Grant Program to improve availability and access to Automated External Defibrillators (AEDs) in community sporting and recreational facilities, for use in emergencies involving cardiac arrest.
An AED is a device that is used in conjunction with Cardio-Pulmonary Resuscitation (CPR) and delivers a controlled shock to an individual experiencing cardiac arrest, increasing their chances of survival.
Objectives
- The Local Sports Defibrillator Grant Program is aligned with the Office of Sport Strategic Plan, particularly in the following objectives:
- Increase the capability of the sector to create fair, safe and inclusive environments for everyone, including children
- Increase regular and on-going participation in sport
- Assist sport clubs to provide quality service to their members and meet community needs.
Funding Information
- Grants are available up to $3000 per AED package, and eligible organisations can apply for up to three packages to a total maximum value of $9000.
Eligibility Criteria
- To be eligible for a grant an applicant will need to be one of the following:
- Incorporated, not-for-profit sports and recreational clubs or other incorporated organisations in NSW that are sport or recreation related
- State or national sporting organisations on behalf of member clubs located in NSW
- Licensed sporting clubs, providing that the project directly benefits sporting activities
- Sporting clubs associated with a school, church or university providing they are an incorporated not for profit club in their own right
- Councils, and sport and recreational facilities owners on behalf of sport and recreational clubs
- Service clubs such as Rotary, CWA and Lions, on behalf of sports clubs.
Ineligibility Criteria
- Ineligible applicants are any organisation types not listed as Eligible Applicants and include, but are not limited to:
- Individuals
- Parents and Citizens (P&C) Associations
- For-profit, commercial organisations
- Government departments and agencies
- An eligible organisation will be deemed not eligible for funding under this program if they are an organisation named:
- by the National Redress Scheme for Institutional Child Sexual Abuse on its list of institutions that have not joined or signified their intent not to join the Scheme; or
- in the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse that has not yet joined the National Redress Scheme.
For more information, visit NSW Government.
