Deadline: 6-Sep-24
The NSW Seniors Festival Grant Program is offering grants to community programs and activities that enable older Australians to remain active, healthy, and engaged during the NSW Seniors Festival.
Every year the festival provides hundreds of free and discounted programs and activities to seniors across NSW.
Objectives and Outcomes
- The NSW Seniors Festival Grant program encourages seniors in NSW to enjoy new experiences, continue learning, stay active and connect to their communities. It does this by:
- supporting a broad range of local community organisations
- supporting programs and activities in regional NSW
- fostering partnerships with community groups and services
- providing programs and activities for diverse communities in NSW
- supporting projects that empower older people to stay connected
- assisting organisations to increase capacity of current programs and activities.
- Applications can be for small scale, multiple and larger activities throughout the NSW Seniors Festival.
- The NSW Seniors Festival Grant program aims for the best use and a broad distribution of funds to maximise the benefit for seniors in NSW.
Priorities
- Priority will be given to the following groups:
- Seniors
- Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islanders over 50
- Seniors from culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) backgrounds
- Senior lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex, queer or asexual (LGBTIQA+)
- Senior living with disability, dementia, chronic disease or mental illness
- Senior carers
- Seniors in rural, regional and remote areas.
Funding Information
- The total allocated funding for the 2025 Seniors Festival Grant Program is $200,000 across NSW. There are two funding levels that applicants can apply for:
- $1,000 to $5,000 for local community programs and activities
- $5,001 – $10,000 to local government organisations for large scale community and regional programs and activities.
Target Group
- Seniors in NSW
Eligibility Criteria
- All applicants are required to meet the following eligibility criteria:
- applications must propose free or heavily discounted programs or activities for seniors in NSW
- projects must be located within NSW and conducted between 3-16 March 2025
- projects must be open to all that identify as a senior in NSW.
- Applicants must be from:
- incorporated not-for-profit community organisations
- NSW local council operating under the Local Government Act 1993.
- Note: for the purposes of this grant, organisations deemed to be ‘incorporated not-for-profit community organisations’ include:
- incorporated organisations that are registered and approved as not-for-profit bodies by NSW Fair Trading
- not-for profit companies limited by guarantee, registered in NSW (must have ACNC registration and/or DGR status)
- Indigenous Corporations (must be registered with the Office of the Registrar of Indigenous Corporations)
- Associations (registered under the Associations Incorporation Act 2009 with NSW Fair Trading)
- NSW Local Aboriginal Land Councils
- religious organisations operating in NSW
- NSW non-government organisations established under their own Act of Parliament.
- The following are mandatory eligibility criteria.
- all applicants must have appropriate insurance minimum of $10 million.
- all applicants must address the NSW National Redress Scheme sanctions
- applicants must adhere to NSW Government public health orders and advice in regard to COVID-19. Up-to-date information is available on the NSW Government COVID-19 website
- applications will not be accepted from organisations that have outstanding acquittals with DCJ. Please note: Only one application for funding will be accepted per organisation, per project.
For more information, visit NSW Government.
