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This scheme provides subsidies to support the construction or upgrade of bus stop infrastructure. This represents the financial contribution towards improving accessibility and quality of kerbside passenger transport infrastructure in regional areas.

The Scheme aims to maximise benefits to regional passengers through supporting:

• more accessible passenger transport, especially better connections between bus stops and surrounding communities;
•  an increase in the use of passenger transport in regional areas through improved awareness of bus stop locations, kerbside information and improved security; 
•  the development of minor infrastructure to complement passenger service development.

Who can apply

• Local governments (councils and joint regional organisations)
• Incorporated community organisations including, Aboriginal Land Councils.

The Australian Tourism Data Warehouse (ATDW) is Australia’s national tourism database, helping businesses showcase their products, services and experiences across a network of leading websites. ATDW profiles are available free to eligible NSW tourism businesses and events.

By creating an ATDW profile, your business information can be distributed to a range of national, state and local platforms, making it easier for travellers to discover and plan their visit.

Once you have successfully registered and entered your product details into the ATDW database, they will be reviewed to ensure they meet eligibility criteria. 

The profile will then be available for publishing on a number of distributor websites, including:

• visitnsw.com: Destination NSW’s official consumer website for NSW, attracting over 10 million visits a year.
• sydney.com: Destination NSW’s official consumer website for Sydney, attracting over six million visits a year. This website also has market- and language-specific versions for the following countries: Korea, Japan, Hong Kong, Taiwan, China, Germany, New Zealand, United States, United Kingdom, Indonesia, Malaysia, India and Singapore.
• australia.com: Tourism Australia’s official website, delivering information to customers worldwide and the primary call to action in Tourism Australia’s international tourism marketing and promotional activities.
• Australian Tourism Data Warehouse (ATDW): A centralised database of more than 50,000 Australian tourism products and destinations, supplying NSW products to approved distributor websites.

Eligibility Requirements

To be eligible, tourism products must be located in, or operate within, NSW and meet ATDW’s content and quality requirements. Tourism businesses must operate from a physical location or deliver an in-person visitor experience. Online-only businesses are not eligible.

Deaf Connect recognises their important role as a member of the community and are committed to supporting Deaf, deafblind, and hard of hearing Australians and activities and organisations that benefit the community.

With thanks to the Deaf Lottery, they are in the position to support the Deaf community to achieve their goals, whether they be recreational, career-oriented or wellbeing focused.

The Deaf Connect Grants program is open to: 

• All Deaf, deafblind, hard of hearing community members and their allies  
• Community groups 
• Organisations

Applications are assessed on a case-by-case basis, with consideration given to:  

• The project itself and its benefit to the community 
• The financial value of the project
• The financial support which has been provided to the individual or organisation within the same calendar year  

They want to invest as many projects as possible. You can submit your interest to apply for a grant in Auslan or English at any time. They recommend you allow at least 6-8 weeks prior to your project deadline.  

They will confirm they have received your application within 5 working days and provide you the outcome of your application within 30 working days. 

The Landing Pads program helps tech scaleups:

• make informed decisions about international expansion
• develop and validate market-entry plans
• connect with opportunities, customers, partners and funding to grow sales internationally
• raise brand profile – including at iconic global trade shows.

The program provides tailored advice and in-market experiences. It is delivered virtually and in-market. In-market programs are often timed to coincide with events such as trade shows. Local partners are sometimes used to provide additional expertise.

To apply for the Landing Pads program, your business should:

• have an existing product with customers and/or partners
• have the funding available to expand internationally, including at least 12 months of runway
• be able to communicate your objectives and vision for international growth
• have reasons to expand to a market with Landing Pad services. This includes existing sales, leads or a market opportunity.

Nominations are open for the 2027 First Nations Arts and Culture Business Innovation Award. Valued at $25,000 this Award, for one business, recognises innovation and excellence in entrepreneurship among Australian First Nations small to medium arts and culture businesses or community organisations (including Art Centres) nationwide.  

This category is only open to self-nominations from First Nations owned and led small to medium arts and cultural businesses that demonstrate outstanding leadership, innovation and cultural integrity in their business practices.  The recipient will be presented with the Award at the First Nations Arts and Culture Awards ceremony to be held on Thursday 27 May 2027. 

The Award categories are: 

• The prestigious Red Ochre Award for Lifetime Achievement in Artistic Excellence, to recognise the outstanding contribution of senior First Nations artists to their arts practice. Two recipients of the award will receive $60,000 each.
• The prestigious Red Ochre Award for Lifetime Achievement in Cultural Advocacy and Leadership, to recognise the outstanding contribution of senior First Nations arts leaders or arts and cultural workers. Two recipients of the award will receive $60,000 each.
• The Established Artist of the Year Award, to recognise outstanding achievement in artistic practice of established Australian First Nations artists. The recipient of this award will receive $25,000.
• The Youth Award for Achievement in the Arts, to recognise the achievement of Australian First Nations artists or arts workers between the age of 18 and 35. The recipient of this award will receive $25,000.
• The First Nations Arts and Culture Business Innovation Award, to recognise innovation and excellence in entrepreneurship among Australian First Nations small to medium arts and culture businesses and community organisations (including Art Centres) nationwide. The recipient of this award will receive $25,000.
• The First Nations Arts Fellowships, supporting the creation of major works by two artists.

The clean technology innovation grant supports commercialisation of lab-proven climate technologies that have potential to significantly reduce emissions in NSW and are aligned to the priority areas as identified in the NSW Office of the Chief Scientist and Engineer’s Decarbonisation Innovation Study.

The key objectives are to:

• repeatedly test the technical and commercial feasibility, viability and/or compliance of a product or project
• accelerate and expand the research, development and commercialisation of low emissions technologies that show potential to become scalable, replicable and cost-effective
• create an ecosystem that can develop the capability to drive repeated clean technology innovation
• attract world-class clean technology companies and innovations to domestic markets and convert NSW into a clean technology superpower.

The Industry Development Program provides support for organisations to deliver one-off or annual professional development and upskilling initiatives to NSW screen and digital games practitioners. These initiatives may include workshops, masterclasses, forums, labs and targeted professional development activities.

The purpose of the Industry Development Program is to fund skilled organisations to deliver viable and innovative training opportunities to emerging and mid-year screen and digital games professionals, meet industry needs and promote sustainable sector practices in NSW.

The Industry Development Program will open 2 funding rounds during 2026/27. Applications may be submitted at any time during the relevant funding round dates and must address all assessment criteria. Applications will be assessed within the periods outlined in these guidelines and published on the Screen NSW website.

Round 1 

Round 1 is open to applicants seeking Multi-Year or Single Year funding.

Initiatives funded through successful Round 1 applications must commence between 15 September 2026 and 30 June 2027.

Round 2

Round 2 is open only to applicants seeking Single Year funding.

Initiatives funded through successful Round 2 applications must commence between 15 April 2027 and 13 September 2027.

The Believer's Grant Program offers funding for individuals, groups or organisations unleashing young people's creativity.

Your project should connect young people with their creativity, in the broadest sense of the word. Artists are creative, but so are scientists, debaters, community builders and dancers. Your project can be anything from a summer camp to a robotics competition to a co-working holiday house for artists.

They're looking to fund the people, projects and programs that are creating the conditions for young people's creativity to flourish at scale, for inventive and dynamic experiments that encourage young people to be curious, to explore, to be lifelong learners and to build community and become high agency people.

Focus is on projects that are 0-1 (just starting) or 1-10 (scaling or iterating), not established groups or projects.

This could be a neighbourhood community science lab, a hacker house, a hardware garage makerspace, a travelling STEM roadshow or an after-school arts or coding club.

Funding is available to support you to collaborate with survivors and descendants of the Stolen Generations in truth telling, preserving history and educating our communities.

The Healing Foundation and Community Broadcasting Foundation have partnered on a $200k fund to support projects for broadcast/publication on community radio, television and digital platforms.

Stories must be broadcast or published first on a community broadcasting station or digital platform and predominantly produced/led by First Nations people.

Music For All welcomes opportunities to directly support or partner with community groups and organisations that are engaged in delivering projects and initiatives that bring, develop or sustain music-making, learning or participation to the communities in which they serve.

They consider applications from a range of groups including:

• Schools and educational organisations
• Universities*
• Community music groups – choirs, bands etc
• Organisations working in youth or social/community services
• Allied health organisations
• Organisations working in education with interests in music, arts or the creative sector
• Community based creative sector organisations or enterprises
• Philanthropic organisations where common interests are shared and a viable partnership can be established

*It would not be Music For All’s normal practice to support pure research activities, however, programs undertaken by universities that include implementable and practical music-making outcomes as either proof of concept or in a seeding arrangement would be considered. 

The renewable manufacturing grant supports the NSW emerging renewable energy sector by investing in local manufacturing of renewable energy infrastructure such as wind tower, solar panels, batteries and transmission cables.

The grant objectives are to:

• drive economic growth across NSW – supply competitive goods and services, promote exports, attract investment, create jobs and sustainable employment, and provide opportunities for small and medium sized businesses.
• grow NSW’s renewable energy supply chain capacity and capability – expand existing capacity, invest in new industry capacity and capabilities, achieve scale-at-speed, scale up local innovative commercial technologies, and leverage NSW’s existing highly skilled industrial workforce.
• alleviate supply chain risk and secure supply for the NSW renewable energy sector – address capacity gaps, support onshore manufacturing and diversify input origins, and reinforce Energy, Social and Governance (ESG) consideration.

To be eligible for funding, you must confirm that your proposed project:

• will deliver new or expanded industrial facilities located in NSW
• will manufacture eligible renewable energy infrastructure at commercial scale*. This includes components suitable for grid-scale renewable energy generation, storage and transmission such as, but not limited to, wind towers, solar panels, batteries and transmission cables
• is expected to be fully delivered within 4 years of execution of the funding deed and no later than 30 June 2032
• is sustainable without continued government investment
• would not occur in NSW at all, or in the same timeframe, without government support
• has a funding need from this grant opportunity in the range of $5 million to $30 million, representing no more than 50% of the eligible project costs
• has a viable commercial strategy
• has a minimum financial contribution of at least 50% of the eligible project costs from non-NSW Government sources (for example, applicant, collaborators, private or other public organisations). In-kind (non-financial) contributions are not counted towards the 50% contribution for the eligible project costs.

*The technologies and processes used to manufacture the renewable energy components must be within the Commercial Readiness Index (CRI) 3-6.

After a hiatus in 2025, the Australian Museums and Galleries Awards return in 2026.

The AMaGAs celebrate the best of what our sector does: the exhibitions, programs, publications, community partnerships, research projects, digital initiatives and acts of institutional leadership that make Australian museums and galleries extraordinary.

This year's ceremony will be held in Canberra during the conference — and live-streamed so the whole sector can celebrate together, wherever you are.

In recognition of the 2025 hiatus, they're accepting entries for outstanding work realised in both 2024 and 2025 — so projects produced between January 1st 2024 and December 31st 2025 are eligible across all categories.

The AMaGAs welcome entries from a diverse range of non-commercial collecting institutions across Australia, including but not limited to museums, galleries, libraries, archives, and historical societies. The Digital Excellence and Excellence in Print categories are also open to non-commercial collecting institutions in New Zealand.

Entries must be submitted by an organisation, association, or non-profit company; however, individual contributors are permitted to submit entries on behalf of the organisations with whom they have collaborated. These entries must be submitted under the name of the respective cultural organisation and with their written permission. This collaborative spirit ensures that the AMaGAs accurately recognise and honour the achievements and contributions of the cultural institutions and the creative professionals who collaborate with them.

Community grants are aimed to reduce barriers for organisations to access funds, allowing them to take the next steps in realising the aspirations they have for the children and families they service.

Grants are always open and are distributed three times per year.

Community Grant Guidelines:

• Aboriginal controlled or led organisations are only eligible
• Activities will be focused on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children in the first five years of life and their families.
• Request for funding up to $25,000 will be considered
• Grants are one-off (i.e. funding requests that are short-term in nature rather than those likely to require ongoing funding)
• Any activity must be community endorsed
• All organisations must have DGR1 tax status (in the case your organisation does NOT have DGR1 status, please contact us to discuss before applying).

Important to note: to balance the limited availability of funds with equitable access, priority will be given to:

• organisations which do not currently have a pathway to philanthropic funding or have not recently received a donation from CAGES Foundation
• organisations which have existing early years/family led work embedded in their service or in their strategy

Parents, guardians and carers receiving Family Tax Benefit can apply for an Active and Creative Kids voucher for each eligible child.

The $50 voucher is available twice a year to use towards sport, creative and cultural activities.

Voucher 2 – 2025: Available now

• Apply for and use the voucher by 14 July 2026

Voucher 1 – 2026: Available now

• Apply for and use the voucher by 31 December 2026

Note:

• Vouchers must be used with a registered activity provider.
• If you have 2 vouchers that have not expired, you can use them together for a combined value of $100. Each voucher can only be used once.

Our Country Our Future (OCOF) is the Indigenous Land and Sea Corporation's (ILSC) chief funding program for facilitating the return and management of Country to First Nations peoples.

They partner with eligible First Nations groups across Australia and across a range of sectors.

Direct funding is offered for:

• purchasing, managing and/or developing land or water-related interests
• planning and capability building projects to support purchasing, managing and/or developing land or water-related interests

Advice and capability support is also available, including in developing partnerships, markets and other opportunities.