Deadline: 6-Apr-25
The Volunteering WA is pleased to announce the Volunteer Management Activity Project Based Grants Program.
The aim of the Volunteer Management Activity is to support a thriving volunteering culture across Australia.
The project-based grants program in WA aims to provide a foundation for community led project delivery that understands and meets local needs of the priority groups and promotes innovation and cross-sector learning.
Volunteering WA (VWA) is administering these project-based grants to organisations that help to break down barriers to volunteering faced by one or more of the six identified priority groups:
- People with disability
- First Nations people
- Newly-arrived migrants
- Vulnerable women
- Young people aged 12 to 18
- People who are unemployed
- Intersectional projects (focussing on more than one (1) priority group), are also encouraged.
Aims
- The project-based grant program aims to increase opportunities for people to participate in the social and economic life of their broader community through volunteering, by:
- building effective volunteering practices and opportunities within organisations and communities
- increasing the diversity of volunteers
- improving access to information on volunteering
- providing access to training, resources and support volunteers and Volunteer Involving Organisations (VIOs) need.
Funding Information
- In 2025/ 26 there will be a total pool of $300,000 available for projects.
Duration
- The current round of grants will run from 1 July 2025 to 30 June 2026.
Eligible Activities
- Your organisation’s project application must have activities that relate to the purpose of the VMA including:
- strategies to engage with organisations or people with lived experience from the relevant priority group(s)
- strategies that develop the capacity of other Volunteer Involving Organisations to break down the barriers to volunteering for one or more of the identified priority groups.
Geographic Focus
- The project grant can include activities at various locations in Western Australia.
Eligibility Criteria
- The organisation applying must meet these mandatory basic requirements:
- Will not be in receipt of funding for the same activity from State or Local Governments from FY 22 – 26.
- Is financially viable (and can be demonstrated by audited financial statements).
- Adopts child safe practices (and is willing to sign a statement of compliance).
- Has demonstrated cultural competency skills.
- Has no reason to believe that it is not a fit and proper entity to partner for the delivery of Australian Government funded services.
- Have an Australian Business Number (ABN); or be registered with ORIC; or demonstrate the support of a registered organisation to auspice the project; or be willing to provide a Statement by Supplier Form (reason for not quoting an ABN).
Ineligibility Criteria
- Grant funding cannot be used for the following activities:
- purchase of land
- major construction or capital expenditure
- the covering of costs incurred prior to approval of the grant
- subsidy of general ongoing administration of an organisation such as electricity, phone, and rent
- costs to attend and travel to conferences
- overseas travel
For more information, visit Volunteering WA.