Victorian Government’s Chinese Community Infrastructure Fund

Deadline: 02-Dec-2024

The Victorian Government has launched the Chinese Community Infrastructure Fund to support Chinese community organisations to upgrade, renovate, extend, or construct their community facilities.

The Victorian Government is committed to building a safe, inclusive, and accessible community that recognises, celebrates, and addresses people’s diverse and intersecting experiences, needs, and identities. The CCIF recognises the importance of upgrading community infrastructure for Victoria’s Chinese communities, regardless of background or location.

Program funding also aims to support diversity among Victoria’s Chinese communities and to encourage organisations to take an inclusive and intersectional approach in these projects.

Objective

This will give Chinese Victorians members safe and secure places to celebrate and share their histories and traditions, build connections, and thrive. This is regardless of members’ age, abilities, language, ancestry, or location. Program funding will contribute to the cost of upgrades. Organisations should not rely solely on the program to fund their project.
The 2024-25 CCIF acknowledges the importance of upgrading community infrastructure for Victoria’s Chinese communities. The program will offer grants for Chinese community infrastructure projects that will:
- support Victoria’s Chinese communities to celebrate and share their history and traditions
- build community connections and networks to participate in society
- help communities to access social and cultural opportunities.

Funding Information

Up to $400,000 is available per project to upgrade, renovate, extend or build community infrastructure.

Expectations

There is an expectation that all applicants consider the different needs and experiences of community members including, for example, Chinese Victorian women, seniors, LGBTIQA+ people, youth and children.

Eligible Activities

Grant activities that are eligible for funding include:
- construction, trades and works to create a new Chinese community facility
- construction, trades and works on an existing Chinese community facility including:
  - maintenance: painting, tiling or structural repairs such as roofing, plumbing or flooring works
  - upgrades: kitchen or bathroom upgrades and energy-efficiency improvements such as solar power or double glazing
  - renovations: alterations, extensions or internal remodelling to improve accessibility or create new rooms, kitchen or bathroom replacement, and heating and cooling systems
  - security elements: CCTV installation, securing doors or windows, security lighting, facade works, fencing and perimeter security

Eligibility Criteria

Organisation eligibility
- Your organisation must be an incorporated legal entity registered under the Corporations Act 2001 (Cth) or the Associations Incorporation Reform Act 2012 (Vic) or incorporated through an Act of Parliament
- and
  - Your organisation must have a current Australian Business Number (ABN) matching the applicant organisation’s name
- and
  - Your organisation must be a not-for-profit Chinese Community Organisation which you must confirm by showing that your organisation is either:
    - registered with the Australian Charities and Not-for-profits Commission
  - or
    - registered with Consumer Affairs Victoria as an incorporated association
- Your organisation must have no outstanding project reports from previous Multicultural Affairs portfolio grants

Ineligibility Criteria

Grant activities that are not eligible for funding include:
- the purchase of:
  - land, property and/or buildings
  - unfixed, mobile or transferable assets such as sporting equipment, phones, computers, tablets, desks, chairs, gardening equipment, plants, musical instruments, domestic refrigerators, domestic freezers, small removable kitchen equipment like blenders, microwaves and toasters
  - assets, materials and products from overseas suppliers (contractors must be based in Victoria)
- already completed or partly completed projects, works or activities
- contingency costs for the project

For more information, visit Victorian Government.