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Moree Plains Shire Council is seeking to support start-ups and existing small businesses within the Shire under the Small Business Fund Program. Eligible small businesses which employ up to 20 employees will be able to apply for a one-off maximum payment of up to $5,000. The funds can be used for various business development purposes as outlined in the guidelines, from signage/façade improvements to marketing initiatives.

Who Can Apply?

1. The business must be located within Moree Shire Plains Shire with a registered ABN (or ACN) and has traded for at least 6 months.
2. An applicant must be over the age of 18.
3. The applicant must be a business and not a not-for-profit organisation. Not-for-profit organisations are encouraged to apply for financial assistance under Council’s Public Donations Fund.

Moree Plains Shire Council is seeking to provide partnership funding support for a range of local events. These events would have the primary aim of enhancing the amenity, wellbeing, and economic vibrancy of the Moree Plains Shire.

Eligible event organisers will be able to apply for a one-off maximum payment of up to $10,000. The money can be used on a wide range of events as outlined in the guidelines.

Targeted support for events has the potential to:

1. Build amenity and community resilience and make the community a more desirable place to live and work.
2. Lead to long term economic diversification and new employment opportunities.
3. Increase the visitor economy.

The end goal is to deliver a program that will have the greatest positive impact on the local community and businesses.

Events funded by the Program include existing or new:

• Community markets
• Festivals and fairs
• Local business events and conferences
• Sporting events that will contribute to the visitor economy
• Food and leisure events
• Community classes and workshops
• Agricultural field days (run by community organisations)
• Touring events and theatre programs (both for Children and Adults)
• Community celebrations

The CHSP Growth Funding 2024-25 grant opportunity (the grant opportunity) forms part of the extension of the CHSP program that was announced as part of the May 2023 Federal Budget.

This grant opportunity is a targeted growth round with a $100 million investment of funding in the 2024-25 financial year, to increase the availability Domestic Assistance, Home Maintenance, Allied Health and Therapy, and Transport services. The profile of the targeted growth priorities varies across Aged Care Planning Regions (ACPR) to address the local need and availability of services.

In addition, this grant opportunity seeks to attract new providers currently delivering other similar services that are focused on supporting the care economy, including those for aged care, Department of Veterans Affairs, and the National Disability Insurance Scheme. This supports cost effective service delivery across these programs where the pool of providers are from the same sector.

To be eligible you must be one of the following entity types:

• Indigenous Corporation (registered under the Corporations (Aboriginal and /or Torres Strait Islander) Act 2006)
• Company
• Corporate Commonwealth Entity
• Non-Corporate Commonwealth Statutory Authority
• Corporate State or Territory Entity
• Non-corporate State or Territory Entity
• Non-corporate State or Territory Statutory Authority
• Local Government
• Cooperative
• Incorporated Association
• Statutory Entity
• Partnership
• Unincorporated Association. 

If you are applying as a Trustee on behalf of a Trust, the Trustee must have an eligible entity type as listed above.

Additional Eligibility requirements: To be eligible you must be an existing Commonwealth funded provider of the following: Department of Health and Aged Care, Department of Veterans’ Affairs (DVA), and/or National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS).

The CHSP First Nations Growth Funding 2024-25 grant opportunity (the grant opportunity) forms part of the extension of the CHSP that was announced as part of the May 2023 Federal Budget.

The grant opportunity is a targeted growth round with a $10 million investment of funding in the 2024-25 financial year, to increase the availability culturally safe CHSP aged care services for First Nations people by First Nations people where there is an unmet demand.

The allocation of growth funding under this grant opportunity will target new Aboriginal Community Controlled Organisations (ACCOs), who are not already delivering CHSP services, to increase the availability of culturally safe CHSP services where there is an unmet demand by older First Nations people.

To be eligible you must be one of the following entity types:

• Indigenous Corporation (registered under the Corporations (Aboriginal and /or Torres Strait Islander) Act 2006)
• Company
• Corporate Commonwealth Entity
• Non-Corporate Commonwealth Statutory Authority
• Corporate State or Territory Entity
• Non-corporate State or Territory Entity
• Non-corporate State or Territory Statutory Authority
• Local Government
• Cooperative
• Incorporated Association
• Statutory Entity
• Partnership
• Unincorporated Association.

If you are applying as a Trustee on behalf of a Trust, the Trustee must have an eligible entity type as listed above.

Additional Eligibility requirements: To be eligible you must be an existing Commonwealth funded provider of the following: Department of Health and Aged Care, Department of Veterans’ Affairs (DVA), and/or National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS).

Each quarter, SilverChef provides four grants, each worth $5,000, to community groups that use foodservice and hospitality to uplift the community. The grants comprise $3,750 credit to be spent on SilverChef’s Certified Used equipment range; with a balance of up to $1,250 that can be paid in cash, or allocated towards more equipment and/or freight costs.

The SilverChef Community Grants Program is open to eligible Australian community groups that use hospitality or food services to help disadvantaged or under-served members of their local community. 

These community groups can include:

• Registered charities and not-for-profits
• Social enterprises (direct-benefit, cross-subsidy or donation model)
• Aboriginal/Torres Strait Islander Corporations (organisation with an ABN which uses more than 50% of its time and/or resources to improve the lives of Indigenous peoples)

The Awards recognise the achievements of Australian organisations that make significant contributions to the employment of veterans and partners, as well as celebrating the achievements of individual veteran and partner employees and entrepreneurs.

Categories for Individuals:

• Veteran Employee of the Year
• Veteran Entrepreneur of the Year
• Partner Employee of the Year
• Partner Entrepreneur of the Year
• Outstanding Contribution to Veteran and/or Partner Employment

Categories for Organisations:

• Employer of the Year – Small
• Employer of the Year – Medium
• Employer of the Year – Large
• Excellence in Supporting Veteran and/or Partner Employment - National
• Excellence in Supporting Veteran and/or Partner Employment - Regional
• Outstanding Employer of the Year

Established in 2019, Mable Community Grants is a philanthropic initiative of The Mable Foundation Limited (Mable or Foundation).

In 2024, four grants of $10,000 each are available for projects specifically aimed at championing independence and inclusion for people with disability and older people.

Eligible organisations or groups (with an ABN or ACN) in Australia are:

• Charities
• Not-for-profit organisations
• Incorporated associations
• Community organisations
• Social or sporting associations or groups

The Mable Community Grants must be explicitly used for projects or programs that relieve poverty, sickness, suffering, distress, misfortune, helplessness or disability in the lives of people in Australia who are living with a disability or who are ageing to improve their independence and inclusion within their community. The grants must be targeted or directed to organisations or groups in Australia (with an ABN or ACN).

The Volunteer Museum Grant Program provides assistance to volunteer-initiated community museums and Aboriginal cultural spaces (such as cultural centres and Keeping Places) with collections and displays in NSW.

Leg Up Grants are “quick response” grants for volunteers in volunteer managed museums and Aboriginal cultural spaces who require financial assistance to attend some form of skills development activity, or to bring such an activity into their museum.

To apply for a Leg Up Grant, an organisation must:

• Be incorporated (or provide the details of an auspicing body that is incorporated, such as a local council) OR provide evidence of appropriate alternative governance structures (eg. S355 Committee, Trust, Company limited by guarantee, Local government authority, etc.)
• Be not-for-profit
• Be an established museum, museum network (such as an AMaGA chapter), or Aboriginal cultural space, with a displayed collection (not an archive or historical society without a museum function)
• Be regularly open to the public (i.e. not open by appointment only)
• Have no more than the equivalent of two full-time paid positions
• Provide a written commitment to contribute 50% of the overall costs of the project, thereby matching the amount funded by the Leg Up Grant
• Agree to abide by the terms and conditions of the grant
• Not apply for a VM Grant if they have also applied for, or received, Create NSW funding for the same activity
• Ensure that the project meets all current NSW Health Covid Safe Guidelines.

The Telstra Best of Business Awards were created to give small and medium-sized businesses a platform to celebrate achievements and stories with their peers, and opportunities to learn from Australia’s best business minds. The goal of these awards is to recognise and reward businesses moving Australia forward and inspiring the next generation through their ingenuity and resilience. The program is designed to celebrate the success stories, diversity and brilliance of Australia's small and medium-sized businesses.

There are seven categories in the awards:

• Accelerating Women
• Building Communities
• Championing Health
• Embracing Innovation
• Indigenous Excellence
• Outstanding Growth
• Promoting Sustainability

The Community Heritage Grants (CHG) program supports community organisations to look after Australian cultural heritage collections. Since 1994, this program has provided more than $8.9 million dollars in funding to over 1650 projects across Australia.

CHG is open to non-profit, incorporated organisations. The program has a strong focus on supporting local groups with limited funding who would benefit from access to professional cultural heritage expertise. Applications from Indigenous and multicultural organisations are encouraged.

The annual round offers cash grants of up to $20,000. The first two stages support organisations to work with heritage practitioners to:

• Explain the meaning and value of their collections (a significance assessment)
• Outline the condition of their collections and create a plan to manage it (a preservation needs assessment)

In the third and final stage, organisations can apply for funding to:

• Undertake conservation and collection management activities as recommended in the preservation needs assessment

Funding is also available for:

• Collection management training projects

First Nations peoples bear a higher burden of road trauma, and are nearly three times more likely to die in road crashes than other Australians. In line with governments’ commitment to the National Agreement on Closing the Gap, the Australian Government will create partnerships with First Nations peoples, communities and organisations to jointly develop culturally appropriate countermeasures to close the gap for First Nations peoples by improving road safety outcomes.

This grant opportunity is open January 2024 to March 2024 to allow the department time to build trusted relationships with First Nations organisations and communities to co-design a culturally appropriate national approach to community-led road safety initiatives.

The aim of this funding stream is to fund projects that will deliver local solutions for First Nations communities, and also support culturally relevant road safety messaging. Activities could include, but are not limited to, improving access to culturally appropriate road safety education, young driver training activities, support for First Nations peoples to obtain a driver’s licence, community group activities that improve road safety outcomes or education campaigns with relevant road
safety messages. Subject to consultation, the government intends these projects will:

• ▪ improve access to road safety education and awareness for First Nations peoples
• ▪ assist government to understand road safety priorities in First Nations communities and tailor solutions to match.

This grant assists eligible regional NSW businesses and councils by co-funding the purchase and installation of electric vehicle (EV) chargers at your site.

The NSW Government’s objectives of the grants are to:

• Overcome range anxiety and help to create a world-class EV charging network
• support destinations across regional NSW to be EV-ready
• support the growth of the NSW visitor economy and the ability to cater for an increasing number of EV drivers.

Round 2 of the EV destination charging grants will fund:

EV charger hardware:

• up to75% towards the cost of eligible 7 kW and 22 kW EV chargers from the approved EV charger hardware list

EV charger installation:

• up to 75% towards the cost of EV charger installation
• the maximum 75% funding available is capped at $3,000 per single port charger and $6,000 per dual port charger ($3,000 per charge port).

EV charger software subscription:

• up to 75% towards the cost of the first year of an eligible annual software subscription, per charge port, from the grant’s approved EV charger software list

To be eligible, you must:

• be located in an eligible regional NSW local government area (LGA)
• be an approved destination type
• have a live listing with ATDW (Australia Tourism Data Warehouse)
• have no more than four existing EV charge ports installed
• not be a site(s) approved for funding under round 1.

The Australian Government’s Housing Support Program (HSP) is one of a range of programs designed to help achieve National Housing Accord’s target of building 1.2 million new, well-located homes over 5 years from 1 July 2024. The HSP will support the delivery of increased housing supply by funding projects that seek to deliver enabling infrastructure, provide amenities to support new housing development or improve building planning capability.

This first Stream (HSP 1) is designed to provide resources to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of planning process, so that housing construction can commence sooner, support increasing housing in well-located areas, or encourage development in line with the national blueprint.

Applications can only be made by a state government, territory government or local government authority (LGA). Applications in partnership with other government and non-government entities are eligible to apply, but the lead applicant must be a state, territory or local government authority.

To be eligible, the project must improve planning capability. Examples of eligible projects could include, but are not limited to:

• New pathways for planners and related professions to enter the industry
• Tools to streamline planning systems and improve efficient decision making
• Sharing of resources between local governments
• Resources to support master planning and planning reform.

Planning capability projects can support the delivery of housing outcomes either directly (for example by increasing the efficiency of the development approval process) or indirectly (for example by increasing the workforce trained to do planning and related work).

This grant opportunity seeks to ensure that all Australian’s living with cancer have access to high-quality and culturally safe support throughout their cancer experience. Acknowledging the existing national cancer screening programs and funding provided for more commonly diagnosed cancers, this grant opportunity will prioritise activities that focus on increasing equity across tumour types and/or priority populations. 

The Cancer Patient Support Program (the Program) will support, one-off, time-limited activities that provide national leadership on emerging priorities across the cancer control continuum. 

Assessment and notification of outcomes will be divided into three Submission Periods during the life of this Program. Each Submission Period will include assessment of applications that have been submitted to the grant opportunity over the preceding Submission Period. 

• Submission Period 1 will contain all applications submitted to the grant opportunity between the opening date and 2:00pm AEST on 14 May 2024.
• Submission Period 2 will contain all applications submitted to the grant opportunity between 2:01pm AEST on 14 May 2024 and 2:00pm AEST on 18 September 2024.
• Submission Period 3 will contain all applications submitted to the grant opportunity between 2:01pm AEST on 18 September 2024 and 2:00pm AEST on 1 August 2025. 

To be eligible you must be one of the following:

• Indigenous Corporation (registered under the Corporations (Aboriginal and /or Torres Strait Islander) Act 2006)
• a registered charity or not-for-profit organisation
• Cancer advocacy groups
• Community Organisations
• Company
• Cooperative
• Incorporated Association
• Statutory Entity, or
• Partnership.

To be eligible, your grant activity must be for a project that will provide improved outcomes for Australian’s living with cancer. Your activity should:

• provide access to high-quality and culturally safe resources and/or care throughout the cancer experience, where applicable;
• be supported by evidence to align with a priority population group and/or increasing equity across tumour types;
• align with the strategic objectives as identified in the Australia Cancer Plan and/or the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Cancer Plan; and
• demonstrate national applicability.

This program funds a range of activities that deliver benefits to the arts sector and wider public, including national and international audiences. Grants are available from $10,000 to $50,000. Supported activities must last no longer than two years from the proposed start date.

The current round is for projects beginning after the 1st of December 2024.

You can only submit one application to each closing date for Arts Projects for Individuals and Groups.

They fund a range of activities, for example:

• professional skills development, including mentoring and residencies
• the creation of new work
• practice based research
• creative development
• experimentation
• collaborations
• touring
• festivals
• productions
• exhibitions
• performances
• publishing
• recording
• promotion and marketing
• market development activity
• activities that creatively engage communities.