Deadline: 25-Oct-2024
Are you a charity or community group with a project in the areas of health and wellbeing, community safety, environment or education? If you are looking for funding to complete a project or have a project in mind that you can’t achieve without assistance, Aurizon Community Giving Fund is here to help.
Funding Categories
- The funding categories are defined as follows:
- Health & Wellbeing
- They seek to provide grants to initiatives that improve a community’s health and wellbeing, such as cardiovascular health related projects e.g. getting active/physical activity or healthy lifestyle programs, and mental health support.
- Community Safety
- They seek to support initiatives that increase safety and security in the local communities, such as projects related to emergency response, crime prevention, natural disaster prevention and minimisation measures, accident prevention and road safety.
- The Environment
- They seek to support initiatives that promote environmental enhancement in the local communities, and in particular, initiatives that are focused on improving biodiversity of natural habitats, community conservation and environmental education (for example, land rehabilitation and revegetation programs, clean-up and education days and local conservation projects).
- Education
- They seek to provide support in areas such as literacy and numeracy, life education, apprenticeships and traineeships, and in particular, increasing and retaining skills in regional areas.
- Health & Wellbeing
Funding Information
- Aurizon Community Giving Fund grants will be based on a minimum of AUD$1,000 and a maximum of AUD$20,000 per grant.
Eligibility Criteria
- The organisation applying for an Aurizon Community Giving Fund grant must be endorsed by the Australian Tax Office (ATO) as a Deductible Gift Recipient Item 1. All successful applicants will be required to supply their ABN so that verification of DGR status can be carried out.
- The Aurizon Community Giving Fund is focused on the areas of health and wellbeing, community safety, the environment and education. All applications for an Aurizon Community Giving Fund grant must fit within at least one of these funding categories to be eligible for consideration.
- Aurizon is seeking to primarily support geographic regions of the key operations. The predominantly reside in regional and rural areas of Australia.
- Applicants may submit separate applications for different projects in any round of the Aurizon Community Giving Fund.
Ineligibility Criteria
- Aurizon Community Giving Fund grants will not be awarded to or for:
- individuals;
- political parties;
- government entities;
- commercial sponsorships;
- religious groups (except for projects that support a non-religious purpose);
- retrospective requests;
- debt retirement, budget deficits, endowments or bequest programs; or
- general fundraising appeals.
For more information, visit Aurizon.