Local Sport Grant Program in Australia

Deadline: 21-Nov-22

The NSW Government has announced the applications for the Local Sport Grant Program to support grassroots sporting clubs to increase participation, host events, improve access and enhance sport and recreation facilities.

Objectives

The key objectives of the program align to the Office of Sport Strategic Plan with the specific objectives to:
- Increase regular and on-going participation in sport
- Increased participation and access for women, girls and population groups under-represented in participation including, Culturally and Linguistically Diverse (CALD) communities, people with disabilities and First Nations peoples.
- Address barriers to participation in sport
- Assist sport clubs to provide quality service to their members and meet community needs.

Funding information

Funding of $50,000 per electorate will be allocated to all 93 electorates throughout NSW. Applicants must identify their 'home ground' address to ensure the application is assessed in the correct electorate eg, your training ground.
The grant amount requested must be a minimum of $2,000 and a maximum of $10,000.
A single organization may make multiple applications, however the maximum amount of funding that can be awarded to any one organization is $10,000.

Eligibility Criteria

Eligible applicants are:
- Incorporated, not-for-profit grassroots sport clubs whose primary focus is to organize sporting activities; deliver ongoing sporting programs; and/or develop member's skills.
- Applications from Licensed Sporting Clubs may be considered providing the project directly benefits the sport, not the administration processes of the licensed club or upgrades of the licensed premises.
- Applications may be considered from sports organizations or clubs associated with a school, church or university providing they are a not-for-profit club incorporated in their own right.

Ineligible Criteria

Ineligible applicants are any organization types not listed in the 'Eligible Applicants' section, and include (but are not limited to):
- Individuals, groups of individuals and unincorporated organizations
- Incorporated not-for-profit organizations that are not associated with a sport listed
- An eligible organization will be deemed not eligible for funding under this program if they are an organization named:
  - by the National Redress Scheme for Institutional Child Sexual Abuse on its list of institutions that have not joined or signed 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
- Clubs whose activities are considered to be of a recreational nature eg, remote/radio-controlled activities, fishing
- Sporting zones or sporting groups that are not based at a specific location within an electorate
- Individual sporting competitions
- State Sporting Organizations
- National Sporting Organization
- Regional Academies of Sport
- For profit, commercial organizations
- Organizations limited by shares
- Government departments and agencies
- Educational institutions including schools and their Parents and Citizens (P&C's), Universities, TAFE, Colleges and childcare centres
- Local Government Authorities operating under the Local Government Act, 1993
- Local Government Committees
- PCYCs/YMCA/Scouts/Girl Guides/Surf Life Saving.