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Training scholarships of up to $10,000 are available to the primary healthcare and Domestic, Family, and Sexual Violence (DFSV) workforce to enhance efforts to achieve meaningful recovery for victim-survivors.

The DFSV Healing and Recovery Training Scholarships are designed to develop and enhance the skills of workers supporting adults, young people and children who have experienced the life-impacting trauma of domestic and family violence and child sexual abuse.

Healing and recovery have been identified as crucial components in the response to victims-survivors of DFSV. However, there is a recognised shortage of services and programs focused on this part of the journey.

A total of $100,000 is being made available to eligible organisations operating in and delivering programs in the Hunter New England Central Coast Primary Health Network region. Eligible organisations can apply for:

• Up to $5,000 (ex GST) per person to cover training course costs, or
• A maximum of $10,000 (ex GST) for group-based training.

All training must commence in 2025 and be completed by 1 May 2026.

The Cultural Grants Program support Aboriginal community organisations and groups across NSW to celebrate Aboriginal culture and hold cultural events and activities.

The Cultural Grants Program:

• supports Aboriginal communities to strengthen, protect, and maintain traditional and contemporary expressions of Aboriginal culture
• supports Aboriginal cultural events and activities
• contributes to Aboriginal community wellbeing and healing through the use of Aboriginal culture and community connection
• facilitate sharing of Aboriginal cultural knowledge and skills between generations.

To be eligible for an Aboriginal Affairs NSW Cultural Grant you must be:

a not-for-profit, Aboriginal Community Controlled Organisation (ACCO), working with Aboriginal communities in NSW, and one of the following organisation types

• an Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander Corporation registered under the Corporations (Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander) Act 2006 (Cth)
• a company incorporated in Australia under the Corporations Act 2001 (Cth)
• a Local Aboriginal Land Council (LALC) under the Aboriginal Land Rights Act 1983 (NSW)
• an Incorporated Association (incorporated under state legislation, and commonly have ‘Association’ or ‘Incorporated’ or ‘Inc’ in their legal name)
• an Incorporated Cooperative (incorporated under state legislation, and commonly have ’Cooperative’ in their legal name)
• an incorporated trustee on behalf of a trust;

OR

• An Aboriginal sole trader or business whose primary business activity relates to cultural expression or revitalisation (noting project applied under Cultural Grants Program must not be profit making in nature);

OR

• A not -for-profit unincorporated Aboriginal community group with an eligible not-for-profit auspice Applicants or their auspice organisation must also:
• Be an eligible legal entity located in NSW, and able to enter into a funding Deed with Aboriginal Affairs NSW (AANSW), Premier’s Department and have an Australian bank account;
• Have public liability insurance of at least $10 million per claim or be willing to purchase it and include the cost of insurance as part of the asked project budget within their application. 

The Emily’s Wish Foundation are providing grants of up to $10,000 for the 2024-25 financial year, with a focus on 
project based submissions. The grants are aimed at supporting influential charities and non-profit organisations that have a profound local and global impact.

Funding will be focused on four principles:

• Direct relationships with our Recipients - the ability to establish long-term relationships with organisations and their representatives, no matter their size. Impact updates are always appreciated.
• Visible Impact - the ability to showcase visible change, development or impact.
• Projects for the Future - to develop projects that meet the demand of future generations and global changes. Sustainable and future-forward projects are considered in this area.
• ​Unique Solutions - combat everyday issues that affect local and global communities can be easy to imagine. It takes the right organisation to execute them at a high standard by establishing a creative, unique and executable methodology.

This year, based on applicant feedback, they have condensed funding support into 4 areas of personal interest, plus an additional category for ideas they may not have considered:

1. Experimental pilot project
2. Growth and redirection
3. Sustainability injection
4. Urgent needs
5. Other 

When fishing in NSW waters, both freshwater and saltwater, recreational fishers are required to pay the NSW Recreational Fishing Fee. All revenue raised by the NSW Recreational Fishing Fee is placed into the Recreational Fishing Trusts. There are two Trusts - one for saltwater and one for freshwater. Funds from the Trusts are used to deliver a wide range of projects and programs to boost recreational fishing opportunities in NSW. 

There are different funding applications to choose from when applying for funding:

• Small projects - seeking less than $10,000 of funding
• Large projects - seeking more than $10,000 of funding

What types of projects are funded?

• Recreational fishing small infrastructure - fishing amenities such as fishing platforms, fish cleaning tables, kayak launching platforms, fishing access tracks, fishing safety infrastructure, fishing line bins and other angler facilities
• Recreational fishing large infrastructure
• Improving fishing access - providing more fishing locations, protection of fishing access
• Recreational fishing education and participation - recreational fishing workshops and training sessions, community fishing events, Fishcare volunteers, schools education, providing fishing information to fishers
• Research on fish and recreational fishing - fishing surveys, biology of popular recreational species, angler catch projects, effectiveness of stocking practices
• Aquatic habitat rehabilitation and protection - aquatic habitat protection, improving aquatic habitat for recreational fishing benefit, community grants to remove barriers to fish migration, replanting & protecting riverbank vegetation, restoring water flows, etc.
• Recreational fishing enhancement - fish aggregating devices, artificial reefs, fish stocking
• Fishing for mental health and well-being - promoting the health and well-being benefits of recreational fishing, fishing for therapy initiatives
• Enforcement of fishing rules - DPIRD Fisheries officers

Who can apply?

Fishing clubs, fishing organisations, relevant community organisations, schools, universities, councils,  etc.

The Building Early Learning Places Program aims to help not-for-profit providers in the early childhood education and care sector create more spaces for children aged 0 to 6 for communities with the greatest immediate need.

The program’s overarching objectives are to:

• Support the accessibility and affordability of ECEC, by assisting not-for-profit community preschools and long day care centres to deliver additional ECEC places through capital works.
• Increase the number of ECEC places through these capital works projects, leading to accessible, inclusive, and culturally safe environments that attract enrolments from children with disability, children with additional needs, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Children and culturally and linguistically diverse children.
• Generate insights, evidence and lessons learned to guide future capital initiatives that may be delivered by the Fund Board in the years to come.

Who can apply

To be eligible for funding, applicants must meet each of the following criteria:

• be registered or incorporated in Australia
• be a not-for-profit organisation/association or local government entity operating on a cost recovery basis
• be an approved early childhood education and care provider operating at least one existing and open approved service under the Children (Education and Care Services) National Law (NSW) and the Education and Care Services National Regulations (2011)
• intend to deliver ECEC places for a priority group as identified in these program guidelines:
  • deliver eligible ECEC places in an identified undersupplied area (excluding on public school sites and non-government school sites); OR
  • for Aboriginal Community Controlled Organisations, deliver eligible and culturally supportive ECEC places anywhere in NSW (excluding on public schools and non-government school sites)

• hold, or intend to hold service approval for the capital works site under the Children (Education and Care Services) National Law (NSW) to:
• operate, or intend to operate, as a centre-based service with a ‘Nature of Care’ service type of preschool, or
• operate, or intend to operate, as a centre-based service with a ‘Nature of Care’ service type of long day care.

The Boating Infrastructure for Communities Grants Program aims to improve access to waterways for boaters of all abilities, particularly focusing on boaters with limited mobility. It aims to enhance the boating experience by upgrading infrastructure, such as boat ramps, pontoons, and amenities, ensuring the safe and enjoyable use of NSW waterways for both recreational and commercial boating communities. This program also seeks to address environmental sustainability and safety improvements, with an emphasis on projects that align with local community needs.

Who can apply

Applications are welcomed from local councils, government agencies, community groups and the private sector.

Types of projects funded under this grant

• Disability and mobility access improvements
  • Projects may include the installation of wheelchair hoists, handrail upgrades to pontoons and installation of accessibility compliant pontoons
• Boating access improvements
  • Projects may include development of or upgrades for boat ramps, wharves, jetties, pontoons, and non-powered vessel access facilities
• Boating amenity and service improvements
  • Projects may include sewage pump-out facilities, fuel and water services, toilets, car and trailer parking, dinghy storage, vessel wash-down facilities, lighting and signage (including electronic variable message signs)
• Local dredging projects
  • Projects that provide navigable access to local boating facilities
• Strategic plans, detailed designs and feasibility studies
  • Projects may include investigations that prioritise and identify long-term boating infrastructure needs and support future boating infrastructure investment
• Priority infrastructure needs at key investment locations
  • Eligible projects are those that support priority infrastructure outcomes within the Maritime Infrastructure Plan

The Regional Australia Bank prides itself on operating at the heart of their community, providing essential support to community groups each year as part of their Community Support Program. Any community group is able to apply for support in the form of sponsorship, with applications opening on 1 July and closing 31 July each year ("Application Period")

The primary objective of community support is to benefit communities whilst keeping Regional Australia Bank engaged with them, facilitating a closer relationship that allows Regional Australia Bank to play a key role as champions for regional prosperity.

Sponsorships are assessed in accordance with the Community Support Policy and should fall into one of the following categories:

• Arts;
• Community activities (e.g. festivals & fairs);
• Education or employment related activities;
• Environmental;
• Health;
• Indigenous/cultural; or
• Sporting.

To be considered for Regional Australia Bank’s Community Support Program, your event or project should:

• Provide benefits for the local community;
• Be of interest to Regional Australia Bank members;
• Be local to the Regional Australia Bank’s areas of business;
• Be for groups which share the values of Integrity, Respect, and Fairness or exhibit similar behaviours of being flexible, supportive, approachable and friendly;
• Provide a means to reach Regional Australia Bank’s target audience;
• Provide the Regional Australia Bank with media, promotional and signage opportunities;
• Guarantee that no Regional Australia Bank competitor will be principal supporters of the activity (this includes all financial service providers);
• Be hosted by a committee or organisation willing to consider bringing their banking to Regional Australia Bank. Priority will be given to those organisations that have done so;
• For larger sponsorships, allow Regional Australia Bank to develop and implement an effective marketing communications program tailored specifically to the event or project; and
• For larger sponsorships, allow Regional Australia Bank to share the successes at the conclusion of the event or project.

A Community Support Application Form can be found on the Regional Australia Bank website or you can pick one up from your local branch. The form is used to obtain the information required to assess the application. Although  applications are accepted throughout the year, community groups are encouraged to submit applications in Application Period.

Open to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander artists, Telstra NATSIAA is a non-acquisitive award that is free to enter and encourages artists to submit an artwork of their choice in one of the Award Categories. Telstra NATSIAA has no set theme, these Awards celebrate the validity and cultural diversity of contemporary Indigenous artistic expression in all its forms.

​Telstra NATSIAA awards a total of $190,000 in prize money each year. The overall Telstra Art Award of $100,000 cash (excl. GST) is awarded to the artwork considered by the judges to be the most outstanding artwork in the exhibition.

The following Award Categories offer the Award recipient $15,000 (excl. GST) and are chosen by the judges: 

1. Telstra General Painting Award

2. Telstra Bark Painting Award

3. Telstra Work on Paper Award

4. Wandjuk Marika Memorial 3D Award (sponsored by Telstra)

5. Telstra Multimedia Award

6. Telstra Emerging Artist Award

In addition to the above award categories is the Telstra People’s Choice Award, which is a non-monetary Award, chosen by popular vote. The People’s Choice Award will be open for voting for the duration of the exhibition.

The News Media Relief Program (the program) will support the sustainability of Australian news publishers in the face of significant disruption to the media sector.

The objectives of the program are:

• support the sustainability of Australian news publishers in the face of significant disruption to the media sector
• support the creation of news content distributed online
• encourage the continued employment of journalists who primarily produce news that is in the Australian public interest
• building and maintaining social cohesion in Australia, including for Cultural and Linguistically Diverse CALD communities, First Nations communities and the wider Australian community.

The intended outcomes of the program are:

• support and safeguard news coverage in Australia
• mitigate the significant risk to the financial sustainability of news publications in regional and outer metropolitan areas of Australia, and publications providing news for CALD and First Nations communities.

Organisations with a primary purpose of producing core news content will be eligible for funding to support a proportion of the salary costs of journalists producing core news content that is distributed digitally.

The grant amount is $13,000 per eligible journalist full time equivalent (FTE).

If the journalist is not employed full time with the applicant, the grant amount requested should be based on a pro-rata amount of the FTE.

The program will run over 1 year from 2024-25.

You can apply if you:

• have an Australian business number (ABN)
• be registered for the Goods and Services Tax (GST)
• have an account with an Australian financial institution

And either:

• be located in, and provide core news content to, an eligible geographic community, or
• provide core news content targeted to an eligible audience.

You must also be one of the following entities:

• an entity, incorporated in Australia
• a company limited by guarantee
• an incorporated association
• a co-operative
• a partnership
• an incorporated not for profit organisation or registered charity
• an individual.

Eligible geographic communities are:

• a regional community - located in a regional area of Australia, i.e. one that is in a location that is not a major city of Australia. The geographic community may be centred on one or more specific towns or local government areas in a regional area with shared communal interests. The publication’s target audience is the regional community and does not target a state or national news audience.
• a local suburban community - located in a major city of Australia and is centred on one or more specific suburbs or local government areas in a metropolitan area with shared communal interests. The publication’s target audience is the local suburban community and does not target a state or national news audience.

Under the Australian Bureau of Statistics Remoteness Structure, major cities of Australia include but are not limited to: Sydney, Newcastle, Brisbane, the Gold Coast, Perth, Canberra, Adelaide, and Melbourne. Hobart is not considered a major city of Australia.

Eligible audiences are:

• First Nations audiences - primarily made up of members of at least one Australian First Nations community
• CALD audiences - primarily made up of members of at least one, specific community defined by their national, linguistic or cultural background.

Tell NRMA Insurance about your local cricket club, for the chance to win an NRMA Insurance community cricket grant raised in partnership with Cricket Australia. They are interested to know:

• About your cricket club and the role it plays in your local community
• Help them understand why your club is deserving of a $5,000 Community Cricket Grant, and how you would use the funds
• What would be the impact of that help to your club and the wider community?

Entry is only open to Australian-based cricket clubs and associations that are correctly affiliated within Australian Cricket.

The purpose of this funding is to:   

• Incentivise new collaborative opportunities between the traditional arts and cultural sector and creative industries. 
• Encourage innovative partnerships that have potential for ongoing sustainable outcomes. 
• Demonstrate possible future direction of arts and culture and creative industry partnerships. 
• Offer the potential to export more Australian stories to the world. 

To apply for Connectivity funding, applicants must: 

• be a small to medium not-for-profit arts and cultural organisation located in NSW for the last 12 months.   
• have an annual turn-over in the most recent financial year greater than $30,000. 

Additional Considerations:

• The small to medium arts and cultural organisation must apply as the lead partner in the collaboration.  
• Recipients of 2024/25 Annual Program Funding, Project Funding and Multi-Year Funding are eligible to apply.
• Arts and cultural focused Local Government Authority (LGA) business units are eligible
• Organisations may be incorporated or unincorporated associations. Note: Unincorporated associations will have to provide additional information, if successful (see the successful applications section). 

The HDP Grant funding aims to support early childhood education and care providers to embed suitable strategies to enable their partnership, and children’s participation, in the HDC Program and related capacity building supports. The key objective of the HDP Grant is to increase awareness of and engagement with the HDC Program.

Who can apply:

• Not-for-profit community preschool (centre based or mobile);
• Not-for-profit long day care (as identified in the National Quality Agenda IT system, or where sufficient evidence is provided upon request), including a local government managed service;
• Multifunctional Aboriginal Children’s Service*;
• Aboriginal Child and Family Centre*
• Aboriginal Controlled Community Organisation*; and
• Standalone for-profit long day care (defined as for profit providers operating a single long day care service as identified by the National Quality Agenda IT system);

The Educational Scholarship Program was established to fund eligible Aboriginal individuals to undertake training or education related to learning and teaching Aboriginal Language for the benefit of their Communities, and across NSW more broadly.

The two objectives of the NSW Aboriginal Languages Educational Scholarship Program are:

• to support Aboriginal individuals undertake their Languages training and education to grow the number of Aboriginal Languages speakers, educators and teachers across NSW Communities, in alignment with the objectives and functions of the AL Act and ALT Strategic Plan 2022 - 2027 » Aboriginal Languages Trust (nsw.gov.au).
• to undertake research to strengthen the use and practice of Aboriginal Languages within NSW Aboriginal Communities, whilst valuing Aboriginal ways of knowing, being and doing and ensuring Community has sovereignty over Language research outcomes

To be eligible you must:

• Identify and be recognised by your Community as an Aboriginal person;
• be a NSW Resident*;
• be Enrolled in Aboriginal Languages Course (or module(s)) at an ALT recognised Aboriginal Community Languages Organisation or NSW TAFE; OR
• be enrolled in an Undergraduate or Master’s degree or studying Postgraduate Module(s); OR
• be enrolled in a PhD or Doctorate in NSW relating to Aboriginal Languages research; OR
• be engaged by an ALT recognised Aboriginal Community Languages Organisation to undertake Aboriginal Languages research (for Community-led research projects – not delivered by a Tertiary Institution)

Note: * Exception may be granted under special circumstances, where an applicant can demonstrate that the Language group area crosses State borders and/or the study/research will significantly benefit a NSW Languages group.

The objectives of the Men’s Mental Health and Suicide Prevention Small Grants Program are to:

• conduct community driven and well supported mental health, resilience and wellbeing projects, targeting men
• deliver mental health, resilience and wellbeing benefits to individuals and groups of men across the state
• reduce loneliness and social isolation among men
• promote mental health, wellbeing and resilience among men, in general, or a specific population group of men such as Aboriginal men, boys and young adult men, older men, men living with a disability, men living in rural and remote areas, or LGBTQ+ men.
• where appropriate, establish connections between community mental health and wellbeing organisations for ongoing referral and support pathways
• where appropriate, develop the cultural competency and cultural safety of mental health and wellbeing organisations to increase their accessibility and responsiveness to priority population groups of men, such as those listed above

Who is eligible to apply?

• To be eligible to apply for a grant under the Program, applications must demonstrate that the proposed project will be delivered within NSW.
• The applicant must be an incorporated, not for profit organisation and have at least $5 million public liability insurance.
• The applicant must be solvent and not under external administration.
• Applications must address all requirements applicable for the grant being applied and be submitted by the closing date and time.
• The applicant must acknowledge that:
  • it has read and understood the Grant Deed Standard Conditions including the reporting requirements applicable for each type of grant; and
  • if an offer of grant funding is made, the grant will be subject to the execution of the Grant Deed Standard Conditions or mutually agreed funding terms.
• Consortium approaches are permitted. 

The Australian Small Business Champion Awards is a prestigious and comprehensive program that supports and recognises small businesses across Australia.

Offering a unique opportunity to highlight Australia's most outstanding small businesses, the awards seek to recognise the hard work that business owners contribute to the local community in generating employment for millions of Australians, as well as their contribution to the Australian economy.

The awards are open to all small businesses in Australia within the retail, service and manufacturing industries. In order to be eligible to enter, the business must be a:

• Retail or Service Business with 40 employees or less
• Manufacturing Business with 100 employees or less