Shortland Grants Newsletter - July

Welcome to the July edition of my Community Grants Newsletter.

From community grants to sports grants they all have an emphasis on strengthening the electorate of Shortland and being involved.

Please share this information around and be wary of the closing dates as a number of the grants in this newsletter require applications to be submitted in the coming days.  

Please contact Melanie in my office if you would like further information about any grants you may choose to apply for.

Good luck!

Pat

Community Sport Recovery

Amount: $1,000 will be provided to 12,500 local sporting clubs
Closing Date: Not supplied
Funding Provider: NSW Government
Purpose: The recovery package will help get millions of NSW residents back participating in activities they love in a COVID safe environment.

Payments to local clubs and associations can be used for fixed costs such as insurances, power, telephone and internet, fixed vehicle or equipment costs (lease, registration), and other base operating costs including affiliation fees, EFTPOS, banking fees and IT support arrangements and essential equipment.

For more information: Click here 

Community Preschool - Start Strong Capital Works

Amount: $10,000,000 total pool
Closing Date: 23 August 2020
Funding Provider: NSW Government
Purpose: To increase the number of 600 hour community preschool places available in areas of need and demand.

Eligible services can apply for funding through this program to:

• Build a new centrebased community preschool
• Extend an existing centrebased community preschool
• Renovate existing or new premises for a centrebased community preschool
• Purchase a motor vehicle for an existing mobile preschool
• Respond to a crisis situation with a capital works project

For more information: Click here

Community Child Care Fund (CCCF) Special Circumstances Grant Opportunity

Amount: Case-by-case basis
Closing Date: No closing date
Funding Provider: Department of Education
Purpose: To support approved service providers to keep facilities open, those who are at risk of permanent closure and to support the set up new community services.

It applies where a service is:

• At risk of closure due to an unforeseen event or circumstance, such as a natural disaster, or extreme weather event
• At risk of permanent closure due to another event or circumstance, where that closure would result in a lack of suitable child care for the community, or
• Seeking to commence a new service in a community where another service has closed, resulting in a lack of suitable child care. Child care services who are approved for Child Care Subsidy (CCS) are eligible to apply for funding where there is a financial need in order to continue to provide child care in the community

For more information: Click here

Australia Post Community Grants Program

Amount: up to $10,000
Closing Date: 17 July 2020
Funding Provider: Australia Post
Purpose: Aiming to connect individuals and communities together.

The 2020 Australia Post Community Grants Program will provide grants of up to $10,000 to local organisations aiming to connect individuals and communities through projects that:

• Increase the opportunity for individual to experience meaningful connections that enhance mental wellbeing
• Support mental health awareness and early intervention to help people understand more about how to stay mentally well
• Help people access mental health support at a local level

For more information: Click here 

Mental Health Month

Amount: 50 grants of either $500 or $1,000
Closing Date: 31 July 2020
Funding Provider: WayAhead
Purpose: To connect individuals and communities through projects. here are 50 grants of either $500 or $1,000 across the following categories:

• General
• Culturally and Linguistically Diverse (CALD)
• Sex, Sexuality and/or Gender Diverse (LGBTIQA+)
• Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander
• Youth

For more information: Click here

Ski for Life Grant

Amount: $5,000
Closing Date: Not supplied
Funding Provider: Ski for Life
Purpose: To make a lasting difference in the lives of young Australians who need it most.

Funding is available to groups and organisations who provide services / resources in the areas of Mental Health, Wellbeing and Suicide Prevention.

For more information: Click here

Future2 Make the Difference

Amount: $10,000
Closing Date: 20 July 2020
Funding Provider: Financial Planning Association of Australia (FPA)
Purpose: To make a lasting difference in the lives of young Australians who need it most.

Organisations that have programs to address the needs of disadvantaged young Australians aged between 12 and 25.are encourage to apply. They can cover any of the following areas:

• Education, including skills training and leadership development
• Engagement, including mentoring and juvenile justice programs
• Employment, including work experience and job readiness training
• Wellbeing, including remedial programs for drug and alcohol dependence
• Independent living and social inclusion.

For more information: Click here  

Tucker Foundation 2020

Amount: $25,000
Closing Date: 14 August 2020
Funding Provider: The Tucker Foundation
Purpose: To support registered charitable organisations who are actively making a positive difference in the lives of humans, animals and the natural environment.

Many of their grants have been awarded to small scale grassroots groups, who may otherwise struggle to attract the funding of larger more prominent organisations.

For more information: Click here

Community Litter Grant Program

Amount: up to $90,000
Applications close: 28 July 2020
Funding Provider: NSW Environment Protection Authority (EPA)
Purpose:  To engage community groups in their litter prevention efforts

Community groups have the knowledge and drive to influence litter prevention in their local neighbourhoods. There are two project streams.

Stream 1: Local single-community group projects - Available for community groups who are taking their first steps in the litter prevention journey to conduct a litter prevention project at a single-littered location.  $4,000 to $40,000

Stream 2: Multi-site and/or multi-organisation - Available for larger organisations able to work across multiple sites and involve multiple groups, with the capacity to engage in litter prevention at scale and over the long term. $50,000 to $90,000

For information: Click here  

Active Kids Rebate Program

Amount: $100 vouchers for two separate school-enrolled children
Closing Date: 31 December 2020
Funding Provider: NSW Office of Sport
Purpose: Families can now access two separate $100 vouchers for each school-enrolled child, per calendar year, as to reduce the cost of sport registration or membership for after-school, weekend and structured fitness or physical activity.

For more information: Click here

Creative Kids Program

Amount: $100 vouchers for two separate school-enrolled children
Closing Date: 31 December 2020
Funding Provider: NSW Office of Sport
Purpose: To make it easier for school-aged children and young people to get involved in creative and cultural activities.

Vouchers can be used to contribute to registration, participation and tuition costs for performing arts, visual arts, coding, languages, literature, music and other creative and cultural activities, including Aboriginal cultural experiences

For more information: Click here

Australian Geographic Society 2020 Sponsorship

Amount: $10,000
Closing Date: 30 Sept 2020
Funding Provider: NSW Government
Purpose: To assist with conservation and environmental initiatives.

Suitable fort Australian scientists, community organisations and individuals developing projects in Australia to assist with conservation and environmental initiatives, often at a grassroots level; as well as Australian adventures, and scientific and environmental research.

For more information: Click here

FIRST® Australia

Amount: not supplied
Closing Date: Not supplied
Funding Provider: FIRST® (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology)
Purpose: To inspire young people to be science and technology leaders, by engaging them in exciting mentor-based programs that build science, engineering and technology skills, that inspire innovation, and that foster well-rounded life capabilities including self-confidence, communication, and leadership.

FIRST® Robotics is an internationally acclaimed robotics program that inspires a passion for Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths in young people. With support from Google Australia, FIRST® Australia is funding new robotics teams in the FIRST  LEGO® League, FIRST  Tech Challenge & FIRST  Robotics Competition programs.

To be eligible, All First Lego League grant applicants must meet the following:

• Students must be in years 3-10
• Team Size maximum of 10 students; minimum of 2 students
• Represent a low SES, rural, remote, indigenous school/community or other under represented group
• Commit to providing ongoing updates of the team/school throughout participation as defined by FIRST® Australia

   For more information: Click here 

Awesome Lake Mac

Amount: $1,000
Closing Date: no closing date
Funding Provider: Lake Macquarie City Council
Purpose: To benefit the Lake Macquarie community

Do you have a brilliant idea for making Lake Macquarie a little more awesome?

Each month, Awesome Lake Mac will award one person a $1,000 grant at a pitch event held at Canon Food Bar Espresso, Warners Bay. 

For more information: Click here 

LMCC - Grants and funding assistance

Lake Macquarie City Council provides a range of financial assistance programs to support community groups and organisations that add social, economic or environmental benefits to our City.

• Event and festival funding - up to $2,000
• Donations and financial assistance - up to $2,000

For more information: Click here

Delta Electricity – Sponsorship & Donations

Amount: Unknown
Closing Date: No closing date
Funding Provider: Delta Electricity
Purpose: This program aims to help improve local parks for families and people with disabilities and sponsor community events. It also provides support for Landcare and other environmental work and helps many local organisations that must be geographically located in the regional areas where Delta Electricity Power Stations operate. Delta’s Vales Point and Munmorah power stations are located in the Central Coast and Lake Macquarie region.

There are five categories available:

• Education
• Environment
• Arts and cultural
• Community & health
• Sport & recreation

For more information: Click here

Australian Communities Foundation Funding

Amount: Undisclosed
Closing Date: Ongoing
Funding Provider: Australian Communities Foundation
Purpose: To support a range of charitable organisations and projects each year through Australian registered charitable organisations.

For more information: Click here

Central Coast Council - Working Together Staying Strong Funding Support Program

Amount: $1,000 to $10,000
Closing Date: 30 September 2020
Funding Provider: Central Coast Council
Purpose: To assist Central Coast community groups and organisations to deliver critical support services to vulnerable and at-risk groups in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, particularly those with projects that directly support the physical health and mental well-being, social connection and safety of vulnerable and at-risk groups.

For example:

• Food hamper preparation and delivery
• Swags for rough sleepers
• Mental health support
• Counselling services
• Organisational volunteer support
• Helping people get around (e.g. transport support)
• Small equipment purchases (e.g. to facilitate education, telehealth etc.)

For more information: Click here

The Sunrise Project

Amount: $5,000
Closing Date: Ongoing
Funding Provider: The Sunrise pProject
Purpose: To recognise outstanding individuals and groups that have made significant contribution to community life.

There are five categories available:

• Drive the shift to renewable energy and/or keep fossil fuels in the ground
• Help build the capacity or community groups for the longer term
• Support small community groups that do not have other funding
• Can demonstrate a clear strategy that will result in real-world outcome.

For more information: Click here