Sport Infrastructure Recovery Fund (Australia)

Deadline: 9-Dec-22

The NSW Government is currently seeking applications for its Sport Infrastructure Recovery Fund to support the rebuild, repair and betterment of essential community assets targeted for arts and culture, sports and Aboriginal communities.

Objectives

The Program objectives are:
- Improve the standard of directly damaged community sport facilities to enable the return of sport activities as soon as possible through repair, reconstruction, and betterment
- Increase the utilisation of community sport facilities
- Provide inclusive and accessible community sport facilities to grow participation for women and girls, people with a disability, First Nations peoples and people from culturally and linguistically diverse communities
- Upgrade sport facilities to be more resilient to future extreme climate events / natural disasters.

Funding Information

There are two streams of funding under the Essential Community Sport Assets Program. These are:
- Stream one: Total funds available: $33 million
- Stream two: Total funds available: $10 million

Eligibility Criteria

Stream one eligible applicants

Councils in an Australian Government natural disaster declared LGA – ARGN 1012 and AGRN 1025

Stream two eligible applicants

NSW Office of Sport recognised NSW State Sporting Organisations (including National Sporting Organisations where the state body is part of a unitary governance model)
Incorporated, community-based, not-for-profit sporting organisations (clubs and associations whose primary purpose is to organise sporting activities/deliver sport programs)
Organisations providing sport programs that benefit the community, such as PCYCs, YMCA and YWCA
Private enterprises (companies established under the Corporations Act 2001 (Cth), incorporated associations established under the Associations Incorporation Act 2009 (NSW) or incorporated limited partnerships established under the Partnership Act 1892 (NSW).

Ineligible Criteria

Ineligible applicants for the ECSAP are any organisation types not listed in the ‘eligible applicants’ section of the guidelines, and include (but are not limited to):
- Individuals
- Schools, TAFEs, and Australian Universities with NSW campuses
- Parents and Citizens (P&C’s) Associations
- Progress Associations
- NSW Institute of Sport, Australian Sports Commission (incorporating the Australian Institute of Sport) and NSW Regional Academies of Sport
- Other community based or religious groups that do not have a primary purpose of sport and/or recreation
- NSW based professional sporting organisations competing in national or state competitions
- NSW Department of Education operated specialist sports high schools
- NSW Government agencies