Deadline: 26-Aug-2024
The Sunshine Coast Regional Council is inviting applications for the Environment Levy Grants that make a positive contribution to the region’s biodiversity and waterways.
Priorities
- Priority is given to one-off projects that:
- contribute to landscape scale protection, monitoring and rehabilitation of biodiversity, which include native plants and animals and waterways
- build community capacity, engagement and participation in biodiversity, waterways and pest management
- adapt and respond to environmental challenges and emerging issues, e.g. pest plants and animals, pollution and climate change.
Funding Information
- Not-for-profit community based organisations can apply for up to $5,000 to assist with projects that make a positive and ongoing contribution to the region’s biodiversity and waterways values.
Eligible Projects
- To be eligible for funding, applications must:
- demonstrate a purpose that is in the public interest
- be consistent with council’s Environment Levy Policy
- link to council’s Corporate Plan and environmental strategies, specifically Environment and Liveability Strategy 2023 and Sunshine Coast Local Government Area Biosecurity Plan 2017
- adhere to the specific terms and conditions of this funding program.
Ineligible Projects
- The development of privately-owned facilities
- Projects run solely for commercial profit
- Activities that have already commenced prior to a grant application being submitted Payment of debt
- Political activities
- Core business of educational, religious or medical organisations
- Items included in another council grant application
- Ongoing operational or recurrent costs including salaries, rent and fuel
- Prize money, prizes or trophies
- Projects run solely for fundraising purposes, without broader community benefit.
Eligibility Criteria
- Community organisations which meet all of the following criteria:
- are a legal entity with not-for-profit status or are registered with the Australian Charities and Not for Profits Commission (ACNC)
- operate within the Sunshine Coast Local Government Area (LGA) or are able to demonstrate that the project or program will benefit residents and environment of the Sunshine Coast LGA
- have appropriate insurance and adhere to sound Workplace Health and Safety practices
- are able to demonstrate viability
- have no debt to council, or have entered into scheduled payment arrangements with council which are being adhered to
- have met acquittal conditions for previous council grants.
- If a community organisation is not a legal entity or registered with the ACNC, then the application must be auspiced and administered by such a group.
- Applicants may submit only one grant application per round.
- Lower priority is given to applicants who have been funded within the previous 12 months
Ineligible
- Government agencies or departments of local, state or federal government
- Educational, religious or medical organisations, where the application is for the organisation’s core business
- Businesses
- Individuals.
For more information, visit Sunshine Coast Regional Council.
