Deadline: 9-Mar-22
Variety – the Children’s Charity has announced Community Grants Program, to provide individual and community funding to support children with a chronic illness, disability or financial disadvantage.
Purpose
- Variety – the Children’s Charity helps children and their families with financial support for things like wheelchairs, specialist equipment and medical supplies, when they can’t afford it, and when government assistance isn’t available. Our work allows children to gain mobility and freedom, to get out and about in the community, to communicate, achieve independence and increase self-esteem, and where possible, assistance to help them integrate into mainstream school and activities.
- Variety believe all Australian children have the right to reach their full potential regardless of ability or background.
Example of Funding Requests
- The applicant can apply for one or more items as part of their funding request. The items must directly benefit children as per the eligibility criteria above. The following are examples only. They recommend the applicant contact the Kids Support team to discuss requests before completing an application form to ensure the requests are suitable for consideration:
- Equipment
- Supplies
- Technology
Eligibility Criteria
- School or Organisation must be based and operating in Victoria:
- School or Organisation must directly service children aged 0-17 years in one or more of the following areas
- Financial disadvantage
- Geographic isolation
- Disabilities
- Chronic Illness
- Previous recipients will not be considered for another community grant until 2 years after the date listed on their outcome letter.
- Requests not eligible
- The following falls outside of Variety Victoria’s funding guidelines:
- Retrospective funding – only items purchased after the approval date will be eligible to claim as part of the grant
- Servicing or maintenance
- Installation costs
- Insurance
- Capital works
- Employment/Contact Staff
- Training & Seminars
- Research
- Program
For more information, visit https://www.variety.org.au/vic/grants/#:~:text=Variety%20VIC%20Grants&text=Thanks%20to%20our%20supporters,%20Variety,Wednesday,%20March%209,%202022!