Deadline: 27-Mar-25
The Sporting Club Grants Program provides funding for community sport and active recreation organisations across Victoria, to help address barriers in participation, develop safe and sustainable practices and build social and active local communities.
Program Objectives
- Increase access to uniforms and equipment that are essential for participation, first aid and safety
- Expand community sport and active recreation club capabilities to attract, build the capacity and retain a skilled workforce – both volunteer and paid
- Increase equity, diversity and inclusiveness
- Implement good governance practices
- Help organisations to create new programs to increase participation of individuals and communities who participate less
- Build a robust sector that responds to current and changing community needs
- Support athletes to realise their potential and achieve success in their sport
Program Categories
- Grant funding will be made available through 4 categories:
- Category 1: On-field Uniforms or Equipment
- Up to $1,000 to purchase on-field playing uniforms, participation equipment for competitors and active participants, safety, injury prevention and first-aid equipment.
- Category 2: Volunteers and Officials
- Up to $5,000 to improve the skills and knowledge of volunteers, coaches and/or officials, or introduce or enhance an ongoing volunteer program.
- Category 3: Access and Engagement
- Up to $1,000 for tools and resources that improve accessibility, governance and strengthen engagement with members and participants, or
- Up to $4,000 to plan and deliver a new or modified sport or active recreation program.
- Category 4: Competitors
- Up to $750 towards the costs of travel, accommodation and event registration fees for individual athletes selected to attend representative competition, selection trials or training camps.
- Category 1: On-field Uniforms or Equipment
Priorities
- Projects that support more regional Victorians to get and remain physically active
- Projects that support the sustainability, capability and capacity of community sport volunteers and the paid workforce in regional Victoria
- Projects that will increase participation in communities or population groups with existing low levels of participation in sport and physical activity. These population groups include people with a disability, women and girls, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, culturally and linguistically diverse communities, LGBTQIA+ and older adults
- Organisations located in areas identified with high levels of socio-economic disadvantage (supported by 2021 Australian Bureau of Statistics Census data)
- Organisations that have not previously received funding through the Sporting Club Grants Program
- For Category 4, athletes who possess an Australian Government Health Care Card (HCC), Pensioner Concession Card (PCC), or currently reside in Victoria Care Services (out-of-home care)
- For Category 4, athletes who travel regularly, or further distances in regional Victoria.
Outcomes
- More Victorians are participating in sport and active recreation opportunities at club level
- Victorian community sport and active recreation clubs have increased capacity to deliver initiatives
- More people with existing low levels of participation in sport and active recreation, including women and girls, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, culturally and linguistically diverse communities, LGBTQIA+ and older adults, are participating in sport and active recreation (on and off field) across Victoria.
Who can apply?
- Applicants must be:
- a community sport or active recreation organisation operating in Victoria
- not-for-profit and non-government
- delivering a sport or activity that is a person-centric physical activity
- registered and operating in Victoria as one of the following eligible legal entities:
- an incorporated association
- a company limited by guarantee, or
- an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander corporation.
- Applicants may nominate an auspice organisation.
For more information, visit Sport and Recreation Victoria.
