Australia Day Community Grants - 2023

The National Australia Day Council (NADC) Community Grants Program makes grants available to support communities to hold an Australia Day event designed to promote the theme – “reflect, respect, celebrate”. The grants provided under the program are to support eligible event organisers to offer an inclusive event and plan for all eventualities, taking into
account the challenges presented by the continuing COVID-19 pandemic.

Events can be a new or existing public event or activity, a community activity, or an online engagement. As the emergency phase of the pandemic recedes, many events are switching back from online to face-to-face. However, there are still some barriers to overcome to minimise the spread of COVID-19 and organisers of face-to-face events should also plan for a virtual alternative to ensure their community has the opportunity to come together to mark our nation’s resilience and acknowledge our collective contribution to Australia.

The Australia Day 2023 Community Grants Program is being made available by the National Australia Day Council, with the assistance of the Australian Government. This program makes available grants of:

• between $10,000 – $20,000 (GST exclusive), to assist eligible event organisers to ensure inclusive Australia Day 2023 events proceed despite the social and economic difficulties that have been experienced as a result of COVID-19; and
• up to an additional $10,000 (GST exclusive) for events that include strong recognition of Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander peoples