Deadline: 14 July 2019
The Sport Access Foundation is seeking applications for its grants program to provide financial assistance to help children and teenagers with a physical or intellectual disability to participate in sporting activities that are otherwise beyond the financial means of their family.
Benefits
- the costs of travelling to and from sporting events and training;
- the costs of participating in sporting events including participation, entry or enrolment fees;
- the purchase of specialist sport equipment or clothing;
- the purchase of protective or adaptive equipment; and
- the costs of consulting with health professionals to develop an appropriate sporting program for that child;
- engage and coordinate with other institutions to provide that child with support and access to appropriate sporting programs, sporting activities and other resources to help them achieve their sporting goals (particularly in their local communities); and
- to solicit donations, gifts, bequests and other forms of financial assistance to further, or for the benefit of, these objects (including by conducting fundraising initiatives); and
- all matters incidental to and ancillary to the above mentioned objects (including in relation to generating alternate revenue sources through social enterprise and commercial activity)
Eligibility Criteria
- Applicants can apply for an Individual Grant, if applicants are:
- 7 -17 years old in this calendar year
- living with a physical or intellectual disability
- an Australian citizen or permanent resident and are residing in Australia
- Applicants can apply for a Club/Program Grant, if applicants:
- are a registered sporting club or program
- have children with a disability aged 7-17 as their members or want to enable them to join
How to Apply
Applications must be submitted online via given website.
Eligible Country: Australia
For more information, please visit https://www.sportaccessfoundation.org.au/what-we-do/grant-process