Proactive Community Grants in Australia

Deadline: 15-Nov-22

Do you have a great idea for a project or initiative for the City of Swan community? If yes, then apply for the Proactive Community Grants.

The Proactive Community Grants program is an extension of the City’s Swan Community Funding Scheme, which targets the delivery of community led projects and initiatives from selected strategic focus areas.

Focus Areas

• They're looking to fund projects and initiatives in four key focus areas, informed by current strategic documents:
  • Community Health and Wellbeing
    • The City seeks to support local initiatives and activations that connect communities and improve the overall health and wellbeing of City of Swan residents. The health and wellbeing focus area is designed to deliver on the social domain of the Strategic Community Plan and aims to create a healthier and happier community. Successful projects will raise awareness of and create opportunities for the community to make positive wellbeing choices and engage in supportive community-led activity. This focus area will prioritise projects that support and encourage positive mental health and wellbeing, physical activity, healthy eating and drinking, smoking cessation and reduced alcohol consumption. Projects that celebrate Aboriginal culture are also encouraged.
  • Homelessness
    • The City has identified that homelessness is a critical issue facing its community and has declared a homelessness crisis. In addition, since the COVID-19 pandemic, the prevalence of homelessness is becoming more evident. This focus area aims to support initiatives which provide direct services to people experiencing homelessness or initiatives which prevent community members experiencing homelessness during COVID-19.
  • Community Safety
    • Community safety is a key area of concern for residents in the City and this focus area aims to address underlying causes of crime and strengthen local communities. The City’s Community Safety Plan includes support for youth programs, early childhood services, family and domestic violence prevention strategies, and drug and alcohol prevention strategies.
  • Sustainable Environment
    • The City’s Sustainable Environment Strategy recognises that involving local communities in environmental management is critical to success. Focus areas of the strategy include biodiversity retention, water quality, water efficiency, waste minimisation, carbon reduction, adaptation for the future and capacity building. Targeted activities include training workshops in sustainable living skills (water/energy saving and waste reduction), community projects targeting weed control, revegetation, flora/fauna surveys, water quality monitoring, and support towards material and equipment costs to implement sustainability projects.

Funding Information

• A total funding pool of $50,000 is available.
• Request an amount of funding between $5,000 and $25,000.

Eligibility Criteria

• Applicants must:
  • Be an incorporated community based or not-for-profit organisation. Non-incorporated groups can apply through an incorporated group under an auspice arrangement.
  • Offer a project or activity to take place within and for the City of Swan community.
  • Have acquitted all funding from the City of Swan.
  • Have no outstanding debt to the City of Swan.
  • Address one or more of the 2021/22 Proactive Community Grant focus areas.
  • Undertake the project or activity for the benefit of the wider community.
  • Undertake a project that will last for one year only, however the grant may fund a discrete one year component of a larger activity.
  • Submit the EOI and subsequent full application in accordance with the information provided in the 2021/22 Proactive Community Grant Guidelines and in the prescribed format.

Ineligible

• Activities which have received City of Swan funding in the preceding or current financial year.
• Commercial activities or organisations.
• Government organisations and education institutions.
• Fundraising activities, prizes and awards.
• Core organisational operating costs e.g. a permanent position for ongoing work.
• Projects that duplicate existing City of Swan services and programs.
• Activities already covered by an existing service agreement with the City of Swan.
• Projects with a political or religious purpose only.
• Projects or organisations that will rely on recurrent funding.
• Projects that have already started (except new activities which develop or expand an existing project).
• Research activities.
• Activities that are deemed to be the responsibility of State/  Federal Government or other agencies.

For more information, visit Proactive Community Grants.

For more information, visit https://www.swan.wa.gov.au/Your-Community/Community-grants-funding/Community-grants/What-grants-are-available/Proactive-community-grants