Start Strong Capital Works - Minor Capital Fund - 2022-2023

The Minor Capital Fund provides grants  to support the creation of additional preschool places through smaller-scale extensions or renovations and/or the recalculation of unencumbered space for centre-based community preschool and not-for-profit long day care services in areas of need and demand across NSW.

Minor Capital Works grants can be used to:

1. extend or renovate existing centre-based community preschools or not-for-profit long day care centres offering a preschool program, where it will result in an increase in licensed preschool places allocated to preschool-aged children receiving preschool education; and/or

2. engage a certified building practitioner to re-calculate unencumbered space where it will result in an increase in licenced places allocated to preschool-aged children receiving preschool education, without capital works.

Applications for grant funding will be received from 24 October 2022 until 14 May 2023 in two rounds.

Round 1 will be open to eligible centre-based community preschools only. The Minor Capital Fund will operate with expanded eligibility for Round 2, to be delivered in 2023. This second round will support the creation of places allocated exclusively to the delivery of preschool education in Aboriginal Community Controlled Organisations, not-for-profit long day care settings, as well as community preschools.