Deadline: 16-Dec-22
The City of Charles Sturt is offering grants to support community groups to divert waste from landfill and implement ways to improve recycling.
Not-for-profit community groups or sporting clubs within the City of Charles Sturt who are eager to implement projects that will help them to divert waste from landfill by either:
- Setting up waste and recycling infrastructure and initiatives,
- Avoiding waste generation,
- Recovering and reusing materials,
- Reducing organic material going to landfill or
- Educating and engaging club and community group members and staff in waste sorting practices.
Funding Information
- Grants of up to $1,000 are available for each community group, club, or not-for-profit organisation.
- Applicants can only submit one application per funding round.
What can this grant fund?
- Upgrading internal waste and recycling infrastructure (i.e. bins) to improve recycling performance.
- Compostable bin liners (must be certified to Australian Standard AS 4736).
- Education material and signs.
- Waste audit costs (if undertaken by a suitably qualified professional).
- Storage sheds (for waste separation activities only). Please note any planning and/or building approval or safety requirements must be met by the applicant.
- Reusable cutlery, bowls, and plates (where they are replacing single use items).
- Dishwasher to support transition to reusable cutlery, bowls, and plates.
- Infrastructure to support recycling hubs (e.g. soft plastics batteries, teracycle collections etc.)
- Other items/activities that reduce waste to landfill will be considered if applicant can demonstrate it will increase diversion.
Eligibility Criteria
- Applicants need to be a not-for-profit community group or sporting club within the City of Charles Sturt. Lead applicants must have an ABN and have an appropriate business structure. If the lead applicant does not have an ABN then a ATO statement by supplier form will need to be completed and returned as part of the application process.
- Organisations must satisfy all the following criteria to be eligible to apply. They must:
- Be a properly constituted not-for-profit organisation, incorporated in accordance with the Associations Incorporation Act 1985.
- Be physically located within the City of Charles Sturt.
- Eligibility for funding does not mean your application will be successful.
For more information, visit City of Charles Sturt.