Deadline: 10-Oct-21
The Midcoast Council is seeking applications for its Disaster Recovery Grants Program to support ongoing recovery and build resilience and preparedness for future disaster events.
The projects and activities can either support ongoing recovery needs in a community, or they may improve the capacity and capability of community members to respond to future disasters.
The funding may also be used to purchase items of equipment required to deliver these projects and activities.
Funding Information
- Funding of between $2,000 and $15,000 will be available for community development and capacity building projects and activities.
Eligible Projects
Projects must meet the following criteria:
- Deliver social, cultural, economic and/or environmental benefits to communities in the MidCoast Council local government area
- Social: the project will result in improved health, welfare and/or education outcomes for the community.
- Cultural: the project will promote or preserve the heritage, beliefs, customs, practices or behaviour of a group, organisation, or community.
- Economic: the project will result in an increase flow of money to the community.
- Environment: the project will result in the improvement in the natural environment.
- Address an identified community priority
- Community priorities can be identified and evidenced through a range of means including statistics and community consultation.
- Demonstrate broad community reach
- Project reach refers to the proportion of the community that will benefit from the proposed project. Reach can be defined in a range of ways including geographic reach across localities / communities and demographic reach across specific populations such as age, gender or culture.
- Be well defined with a clear budget
- Projects must have defined outcomes linked to the identified need and a clear budget that supports delivery of those outcomes.
- Project costs must be informed by quotes and estimates. For proposed capital purchases of $500 or more at least two written quotes must be provided.
- Be sustainable
- Projects must demonstrate how their proposed benefits will be sustained beyond the period of funding.
- Projects with ongoing or recurrent costs must demonstrate how these costs will be met once grant funding has been expended.
Eligibility Criteria
- To be eligible you must:
- Have an Australian Business Number (ABN)
- And be one of the following entities:
- An entity incorporated in Australia
- A company limited by guarantee
- An incorporated association
- An incorporated not for profit organisation
- A non-distributive co-operation
- An incorporated trustee on behalf of a trust
- The Disaster Recovery grants fund is open to the entities that operate and deliver activities in the MidCoast local government area.
- Eligible organisations or community groups must demonstrate their capacity to manage funds and deliver the project successfully.
For more information, visit https://www.midcoast.nsw.gov.au/Community/Grants-and-Funding