Apply for Cumberland City Council’s Community Grant Program in Australia

Deadline: 18-Aug-23

Cumberland City Council is offering grant opportunity through its Community Grant Program to support its residents, businesses and visitors from different cultural backgrounds to work together and build a better Community.

Council seeks to enhance the use of public funds through well-managed grant processes. Grant programs are linked to the Council’s goals and provide an integrated approach to growing Cumberland socially, culturally, economically, and environmentally.

Funding Streams

Community Participation
Employment andEducation Pathways
Small Grants

Objectives and Expected Funding Outcomes

Community Participation
- Objectives:
  - To aid in the delivery of effective programs that support the diverse needs and interests of the Cumberland LGA.
  - To enhance community participation in the development and delivery of programs.
  - To create positive connections between residents of Cumberland.
  - To further develop existing skills, knowledge, and access to opportunities for residents and organisations.
  - To maximise access and usage of community resources, services and facilities including equity of access for special needs groups.
  - To encourage collaboration and partnerships.
- Outcomes
  - Community
  - Domestic and Family Violence
  - Education
  - Environmental Sustainability
  - Health and Wellbeing
  - Safety
  - Social cohesion, participation, and accessibility
Employment and Education Pathways
- Improve career outcomes and create education and training pathways for Cumberland residents.
- Help young people into education, training and/or employment. Increase accessibility to employment and create education and training pathways for Cumberland residents with a particular focus upon:
  - Residents identifying as having a disability
  - Residents identifying as Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander
  - Refugees who have settled in the Cumberland Local Government Area.
Small Grants
- Requests for financial assistance to an individual or organisation for a cause worthy and of benefit to the Cumberland Community. This may include but is not limited to:
  - Community fundraising activities
  - Contributions towards a community -based activity or event

Funding Information

Funding Amount:
- Community Participation
  - Applications can be made for up to $15,000.
- Employment andEducation Pathways
  - Applications can be made for up to $15,000 per project.
- Small Grants
  - Applications can be made for up to $2,000
Duration: Grants must be spent within 12 months of successful applicant receiving funding.

Eligibility and Exclusions

Applications must be for a specific project, either the establishment of a new project or to significantly expand an existing project.
Projects must be completed within 12 months of a successful applicant receiving funding.
Applicants must be a legally registered, incorporated not-for-profit organisation with an ABN.
Unincorporated groups may be sponsored (auspiced) by incorporated not-for-profit organisations.
Projects must demonstrate that any ongoing costs or recurrent costs can be met by the organisation once grant funding has been expensed.

Ineligibility Criteria

Duplicating of Council services or programs.
Breaching existing Council policy.
Not meeting the identified priority needs of the Cumberland LGA.
Applications from government departments, schools, for-profit businesses, or political parties.
Applications from charities for general donations.
Applications for fundraising, operational expenditure (e.g. admin, insurance), shortfalls in funding from other government departments or completed (retrospective) projects.
Projects that rely on repeated funding from Council.
Organisations that have not submitted acquittal reports for projects funded by Cumberland Council or have debts with Council.
Organisations already funded under another application stream or in the same financial year.

For more information, visit Cumberland City Council.