Deadline: 30-Oct-20
Springfield Rise Community Grants Program has been announced through a partnership between Lendlease and the Community Enterprise Foundation TM. It is an initiative that showcases the commitment to creating the best places for residents.
The focus of the program is to fund initiatives or events that benefit the community of Springfield Rise and surrounding areas, through improving social, environmental and economic outcomes. This round will have a special focus on programs and initiatives that help aid in the community’s COVID recovery.
Since its inception in 2016, the Springfield Rise Community Grants Program, which is administered by Bendigo Bank’s Community Enterprise Foundation, has provided funding of close to $79,000 across 19 different local initiatives. Projects that have been funded include native beehives for local schools and kindergartens, wildlife nest boxes, mentorship programs for youth, school diversity initiatives and wool supplies for a craft club who knit for disadvantaged groups, just to name a few.
Focus Areas
- Educate / up-skill the community;
- Connect and strengthen relationships within the community;
- Assist the start-up of community groups, programs, a social enterprise;
- Celebrate the stories of Greater Springfield’s past and present;
- Activate public space.
Funding Information
- Total funding pool $15,000.
- Duration Applicants must complete their project within a year.
Eligibility Criteria
- Applicants must be a not-for-profit body with a current and valid ABN, such as an incorporated association, or be auspiced by one;
- Applicants must be located within or offer a project within Springfield 4300;
- A single application will only be considered per grant round.
What will not be funded?
- Organisational core operating costs such as funding for permanent staff members, insurance and utilities;
- Commercial activities and organisations;
- Projects that duplicate existing services and programs;
- Projects with a sole religious or political purpose;
- The advancement of sport is not considered as charitable activity by the ATO. Therefore, applications from sporting organisations need to clearly demonstrate a benefit to the wider community. Examples of charitable projects often championed by sporting groups include building and maintaining multipurpose public facilities, all abilities programs, health promotion and leadership education;
- The foundation will not consider projects that are vague, have insufficient value or that are of indeterminable value to the community;
- Projects that have already been completed, cannot receive retrospective funding under Charitable Law.
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