Deadline: 22-Sep-2024
The Eurobodalla Shire Council is inviting applications for Seniors’ Festival Grant to assist local community groups to deliver activities or events for the annual festival.
The 2025 Seniors’ Festival held in March 2025, and provides opportunities for people over 60 to remain active, healthy and engaged in their local community.
Funding Information
- Grants up to $500 are available for not-for-profit community groups to put towards the costs of hosting an event or activity for next year’s festival.
Some examples of costs the grant can be put towards include:
- hiring or purchasing a new piece of equipment
- promotion of an event or an activity
- running an event or activity
- volunteers’ donations
- workshops, classes, or sessions
- training staff
- facilitation fees
- other items that help deliver activities.
Eligibility Criteria
- Applications must meet all of the following eligibility criteria:
- Seniors’ Week grants must be used during the NSW Seniors Festival in March 2025. Preference will be given to events that are open to the public, and able to be included in Council’s Seniors Week Festival promotion.
- Applicants with events open to the public are encouraged to provide links to the booking platform.
- Your group needs to be not-for-profit and either incorporated or able to prove that they are a bona fide Eurobodalla based community group.
- The funding must be used for the project described on the application form and take place in the Eurobodalla Shire. Funds are not transferable to another organisation or project.
- Eurobodalla Shire Council accepts no responsibility for activities conducted through its grant programs.
- Your group can give some financial support or volunteer labour to the activity.
- Your group can show that it has adequate insurance coverage for the activity.
- Your group does not have any outstanding debts to council.
- Your group will use the grant to achieve one or more of the following outcomes in your local community:
- celebrate older people and their contribution to the community
- create intergenerational opportunities for social interaction
- encourage seniors to be healthy and active
- encourage lifelong learning
- promote and celebrate the cultural diversity of older people in their community
- improve access and/or encourage people with disability to participate
- raise community awareness of the benefits of positive and active ageing.
Ineligible
- Grant funding is not available for:
- rental costs, i.e. room or venue hire
- projects will not be funded in retrospect, that is your activity must occur after the grant has been issued
- annual running costs e.g. insurance, incorporation fees
- improvement works on private property
- the benefit of an individual
- wages or salary.
For more information, visit Eurobodalla Shire Council.