Upto $5,000 available for Volunteer Grants Program – Australia

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Deadline: 24-Jan-2025

Are you a volunteer group in need of up to $5,000 in funding? If yes, then the Volunteer Grant Program is for you.

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The Volunteer Grants program aims to assist not-for-profit community organizations in supporting and increasing volunteer participation.

Funding Information

Grants range between $1,000 and $5,000 (GST exclusive) per organization.

Funding Categories

Category 1: Purchase communication or insurance items that will benefit any of a community organisation’s volunteers
Category 2: Purchase items or services for the main purpose of supporting a community organisation’s volunteers from the following cohorts:
- Children (under 18) as a means of supporting their development, or
- Adults whose volunteering activities support children’s development and wellbeing
Fund volunteer-run activities within the community organisation for the main purpose of supporting:
- Children’s (under 18) development and wellbeing, or
- Parents/carers to develop the skills necessary to ensure a child’s development

Outcomes

Expected Outcomes:
- Strengthened community functioning through volunteer support.
- Enhanced resources for volunteers and community services.

Eligibility Criteria

To be eligible to apply you must be an organisation that has been nominated by your Federal MP, received an invitation to apply through GrantConnect and:
- be a legal and eligible entity
- or
- be an unincorporated association that agrees to the primary contact on your application entering into an agreement on behalf of the unincorporated association
- and
- have a minimum of 40% of volunteers working for your organisation
- be a not-for-profit organisation
- You must be one of the following entity types:
  - Company
  - Cooperative
  - Corporate State or Territory Entity
  - Incorporated Association
  - Indigenous Corporation
  - Non-corporate State or Territory Entity

Ineligibility Criteria

a for-profit organisation
a non-corporate Commonwealth Entity
a non-corporate Commonwealth Statutory Authority
a local government
an International Entity
a person (except in the case of entering the agreement on behalf of an unincorporated organisation)
a political party

For more information, visit Pat Conaghan MP.