Artists’ Benevolent Fund

Amount: $2,000
Closing Date: Ongoing
Purpose: To provide immediate assistance following a disaster or catastrophic event in their lives. Pending the capacity of the fund, the panel may consider larger amounts as appropriate to the need of the beneficiary.

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Australian Cultural Diplomacy Grants Program (ACDGP) 2024-25 Round

Amount: $10,000.00 - $60,000.00
Closing Date: 17 February 2025
Purpose: To support international projects that tell Australian stories, amplify First Nations voices, deepen bilateral partnerships and build cultural understanding and connections overseas.

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Disaster Ready Fund Round Three 2025-26

Amount: $200 million
Closing Date: 2 April 2025
Purpose: To support Australian communities that manage the physical, economic and social impacts of future floods, cyclones, bushfires, storm surges and other natural hazards. Works that deliver enduring benefits for communities are a particular focus this year, with $138 million earmarked for infrastructure projects.

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Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC) Providers Worker Retention Grant Payment

Amount: $3.6 billion to support the 15 per cent wage increase over two years
Closing Date: 30-Sep-2026 
Purpose: Providers can apply to receive grant funding to support a 15 per cent pay increase for eligible ECEC workers over two years from the Australian Government.

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Export Market Development Grants

Amount: $30,000 - $80,000
Closing Date: Undisclosed
Purpose: To bring benefits to Australia by encouraging the creation, development, expansion and diversification of foreign markets for Australian products.

• Tier 1 up to $30,000 per financial year
• Tier 2 up to $50,000 per financial year
• Tier 3 up to $80,000 per financial year
• Representative body up to $50,000 per financial year.

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Financial Wellbeing & Capability Activity Grant -Financial Wellbeing Hubs

Amount: $95.1 million
Closing Date: Undisclosed
Purpose: Financial Wellbeing Hubs will provide integrated, co-located financial wellbeing services, with a strong focus on early intervention and financial capability. Integrated services will include financial counselling and financial capability, Emergency Relief and access to Microfinance products, and will focus on supporting individuals to increase their financial and digital literacy and longer-term financial resilience.

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First Nations Heritage Grants - Round 2

Amount: $25,000 - $250,000
Closing Date: 21 February 2024
Purpose: To provide funding for projects that are aimed at:

• Support the addition of Indigenous heritage values to existing World and National Heritage-listed properties
• Better protect First Nations heritage and improve engagement with First Nations Peoples.

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Industry Growth Program

Amount:  $50,000 - $5 million
Closing Date: Undisclosed
Purpose: Supporting innovative small to medium enterprises (SMEs) and startups to commercialise their ideas and grow their businesses. There are two matched funding grant opportunities:

• $50,000 - $250,000 to support early-stage commercialisation projects
• $100,000 - $5 million for commercialisation and growth projects.

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Long Tan Bursary

Amount: $12,000
Closing Date: Ongoing
Purpose: The Long Tan Bursary helps eligible children and grandchildren of Vietnam veterans pay for their tertiary education. Each year 37 bursaries are awarded to successful applicants across Australia. Each bursary is worth up to $12,000 over 3 years of continuous full-time study.

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 Medical Research Future Fund (MRFF)

Amount: $3 million 
Closing Date: 5 February 2025
Purpose:  To provide grants of financial assistance to support medical research and medical innovation projects.

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Mental Health and Climate Change Grant

Amount: $3 million 
Closing Date: 25 June 2025
Purpose:  To provide grants of financial assistance to support medical research and medical innovation projects that, through co-design with consumers and health services, develop scalable and sustainable interventions to mitigate the impact of climate change on Australians’ mental health.

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NAIDOC Local Grants Opportunity

Amount: $25,000
Closing Date: 20 February 2025
Purpose:  To provide funding to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities and organisations to contribute to the costs of local and regional NAIDOC Week activities across Australia held 6 to 13 July 2025.

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National Shed Development Program (NMSP)

Amount: $10,000
Closing Date: 21 February 2025
Purpose: The program supports Men’s Sheds and organisations supporting a Men’s Shed to better respond to the needs of the members and their local community. There are 5 funding categories:

• Health and wellbeing and events
• Shed improvements
• Tools and equipment
• Mental health and wellbeing events
• Automated external defibrillators.

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News Media Relief Program (NMRP)

Amount: $13,000 per FTE journalist
Closing Date: 31 March 2024
Purpose: The NMRP will provide eligible regional, independent, suburban, multicultural and First Nations news publishers creating online news content with grants of $13,000 per FTE journalist. 

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On Farm Connectivity Program

Amount: $3,000 - $30,000
Closing Date: TBA
Purpose: To assist primary producers to take advantage of digital agribusiness solutions to boost productivity, improve safety and drive more sustainable farming practices.

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Saluting Their Service Commemorative Grant Program

Amount: $10,000 - $150,000
Closing Date: 5 February 2025
Purpose: Ex-service organisations, community groups, councils and schools can apply for funding for projects that preserve Australia's wartime heritage and highlight the service and sacrifice of our Defence personnel. Projects may include:

• Development of a digital honour roll
• Restoration of an honour board
• Purchase of a cabinet to display military memorabilia
• Installation of a flagpole to display Australian National Flags on days of commemoration

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Strengthening Social Cohesion Grants

Amount: $12.25 million 
Closing Date: Undisclosed
Purpose: To support Australian Palestinian, Muslim and other communities affected by the Hamas-Israel conflict. The first round of funding will provide $12.25 million for affected Palestinian, Muslim and other communities, including:  ​

• $7 million for national programs addressing social cohesion impacts felt across communities in Australia;
• $1.25 million to expand and enhance existing social cohesion projects; and
• $4 million for community-led grass roots programs.

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Strong and Resilient Communities Round 4 – Inclusive Communities

Amount: $360,000
Closing Date: 20 February 2024
Purpose: To support the social and economic participation of vulnerable and disadvantaged people in their communities by providing funding that supports:

• People with disability 
• People who are unemployed
• Women who experience, or are at risk of experiencing, isolation, or discrimination
• Young people aged 12 to 18 years who are disengaged, or at risk of disengaging, from education to reconnect with their community, school, training and/or employment.

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Support At Home & New Aged Care Act Transition Support 2024-2025

Amount: $10,000
Closing Date: 25 February 2025
Purpose: Open to Home Care Packages (HCP) Program and Commonwealth Home Support Programme (CHSP) providers, providing one-off funding of $10,000 in the 2024-25 financial year towards the cost of IT system upgrades to meet the obligations under the Support at Home (SaH) Program, the CHSP and the Aged Care Act 2024.

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Supporting People with Cancer

Amount: $40,000 - $120,000
Closing Date: Undisclosed
Purpose: To fund projects aimed at reducing the impact of cancer and providing better support for people affected by cancer​

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Traumatic Brain Injury Grant 

Amount: $5 million
Closing Date: 5 February 2025
Purpose: To provide grants of financial assistance to support medical research and medical innovation projects that:

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Urban Precincts & Partnerships Program (uPPP)

Amount: $500,000 - $5 million.
Closing Date: Ongoing
Purpose: To develop a precinct idea through to investment-ready stage in partnership with local stakeholders to benefit regional communities. State and Territory governments, local governments, regional universities, not-for-profit organisations, including indigenous organisations are eligible to apply.

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Arts Project Funding – Creative Industries - Connectivity

Amount: $30,000 - $50,000
Closing Date: 17 March 2025
Purpose: The project or activity must be a clearly defined arts and cultural activity that benefits individual NSW artists or arts and cultural workers. Examples you can apply for:

• Fees for artists and creatives to develop ideas and concepts 
• Fees for artists and creatives to be employed in the project 
• Cost of materials to build prototypes and for presentations 
• Travel and accommodations directly related to the project 
• Marketing and promotion costs 
• First Nations Cultural expenses 
• Accessibility expenses 

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ClubsGrant

Amount:  Undisclosed
Closing Date: 31 May 2025
Purpose: Provides funding for general community development and support activities, such as junior sport. Eligible organisations 

• Belmont 16's
• Cardiff RSL Club
• Charlestown Bowling Club
• Doyalson Wyee RSL Club

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Community Building Partnership 2025

Amount: $10,000 - $100,000
Closing Date: 21 February 2025
Purpose: To award grants for community infrastructure projects. There is a total of $450,000 per state electorate available to organisations across the Charlestown, Swansea and Lake Macquarie electorates. Projects funding may include:

• Construction of new community infrastructure as well as refurbishment, repair and maintenance of existing community infrastructure. 
• The purchase of freestanding equipment. Freestanding equipment is: equipment that does not require installation. This also includes vehicles and vessels that do not require registration e.g. tractors, utility task vehicles (UTV) or side-by-side ATVs, dragon boats, golf buggies, dinghies, powerboats or sailing boats less than 5.5 m long or with an engine less than 4.0 kw.
• The purchase of vehicle(s). Vehicles are: cars, buses, trucks, trailers, motorised rescue vehicles including boats and any modifications to existing vehicles.

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Deadly Deposit Grant

Amount:  $10,000
Closing Date: Ongoing
Purpose: The Deadly Deposit Grant program is a financial grant that can match people's savings towards their deposit, up to $10,000. Deposit savings may be made up of money in the bank, cash, and other sources including inheritance.

This grant is open to Aboriginal people who are in the process of buying a home. Applications open to social housing tenants. 

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Energy Consumer Australia

Amount:  $15,000
Closing Date: Ongoing
Purpose: To enable residential or small business consumer advocacy by participation in current or forthcoming government, regulatory, or industry decision-making processes, or for small, targeted research projects.

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Home Buyer Booster Grant

Amount:  $2,500
Closing Date: Ongoing
Purpose: To help with some of the expenses associated with buying a property, like legal and administrative costs. This grant can be used for expenses such as:

• Legal fees including the administrative costs of buying a property, and preparing a will
• Property valuations
• Home and contents insurance
• Surveying costs
• Pest and building inspections
• Stamp duty (for non-housing tenants). Aboriginal people living in social housing are exempt from Stamp Duty as per Section 278 of the Duties Act 1997 (NSW).
• Any unspent funds can be used towards other costs associated with buying a home (e.g. moving costs)

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P&C Transition Grant 2024-25

Amount: $10,000
Closing Date: 30 June 2025
Purpose: To support approved OOSH services that have transitioned to P&C ownership as a result of the recent provider Category Review.

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Regional Event Fund – Event Development 

Amount: $50,000
Closing Date: Ongoing
Purpose: To support events in regional NSW to grow visitation and increase economic benefits to destinations. The Event Development stream supports the strategic growth of proven events as drivers of tourism.

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Seniors Local Achievement Awards

Closing Date: 17 February 2025
Purpose: If you know a senior who strives to make our community a better place nominate them for the 2025 NSW Seniors Festival Local Achievement Award. Please return completed nomination form to:

The Hon Jodie Harrison MP
Member for Charlestown
PO Box 135
CHARLESTOWN NSW 2290 or via email: charlestown@parliament.nsw.gov.au

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Service Reform and Innovation Grant - HIF 

Amount: $15 million
Closing Date: Ongoing
Purpose: The Homelessness Innovation Fund (HIF) will initially target reducing the current demand and costs of temporary accommodation, and proposals for service reform and innovation.

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Supporting Women in Business Grants

Amount: $150,000 - $250,000
Closing Date: 14 February 2025
Purpose: To fund NSW organisations to implement tailored projects that connect women in small business or looking to start or grow a small or micro business with the right resources and support to ensure success by providing:

• Support
• Training
• Mentoring
• Networking skills and opportunities
• Assistance to access finance
• Business development support. 

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Voucher Programs for Primary School Students

Amount: $100 
Closing Date: Undisclosed
Purpose: The NSW Government offers vouchers to help cover the costs of your child's activities. Find out more about the programs and how to apply. Eligible parents, guardians and carers of school-aged children can now apply for Active and Creative Kids vouchers.

The voucher:

• Is valued at $50
• Is available twice a year, in terms 1 and 3 for each eligible child
• Can be used for eligible active or creative activities with registered providers.

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