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Organisations with specialist expertise in LGBTIQA+ health and wellbeing are invited to apply for one-off competitive grants to support new and existing initiatives at the local, regional and national level that will foster access to appropriate, culturally sound and inclusive health care. It is expected that this will be the final substantive LGBTIQA+ Health Program (LHP) disbursement for the 2026-2027 financial year.

The primary objective of the LGBTIQA+ Health Program (LHP) is to support LGBTIQA+ community-led organisations and, where appropriate, generalist organisations to deliver new services or expand existing services, in partnership with LGBTIQA+ communities.

The LHP will prioritise resources and opportunities for LGBTIQA+ community-led organisations, or generalist organisations that have written support from at least one LGBTIQA+ organisation. Successful proposals must show demonstrated expertise in the delivery of LGBTIQA+ health and wellbeing services, genuine partnerships, and build the
capacity and leadership of LGBTIQA+ organisations.

The Print Disability Services Program (PDSP) contributes to the priorities of Australia’s Disability Strategy 2021-31, to ensure that information, including printed information, is inclusive and accessible for all Australians. 

Under this grant opportunity, funding will be available for up to 4 years. 

The purpose of this grant opportunity is to support organisations to produce print material in alternative formats for people with print disability who are unable to read standard print with ease due to vision impairment, a physical disability or a learning disability. 

Funding under the PDSP is to produce digital masters of print material, to reflect current and emerging technology and to ensure accessible and the highest quality material is available to the end user. The availability of this material may be provided directly through the organisations selected to provide the output in the variety of appropriate print disability accessible formats or via another eligible organisation that provide the materials to the consuming print disability individual, at no charge to the person.

The Rebuilding Futures grant program seeks to support communities to strengthen their resilience to significant disasters by undertaking a wide range of medium to long-term community-led disaster recovery, prevention and preparedness projects for community benefit.

The CommBank Next Chapter is CommBank's commitment to help end financial abuse and support people on their road to long-term financial independence.

Through Next Chapter Innovation, they partner with community organisations to develop practical responses to financial abuse. Recognising that some of the most effective solutions are shaped by the people closest to the issue, drawing on lived experience, frontline expertise and strong community connections.

Since launching in 2023, Next Chapter Innovation has supported organisations addressing complex and emerging forms of financial abuse, including:

• Technology-facilitated abuse
• Dowry abuse
• Financial abuse in small business settings
• Pathways to recovery after financial abuse
• Financial abuse affecting First Nations communities

Next Chapter Innovation 2026 is for eligible organisations developing innovative approaches to identifying, responding or preventing financial abuse of older people.

The Zanda McDonald Award is one of Australia and New Zealand’s most prestigious leadership opportunities for emerging professionals in primary industries, aged 21–35.

Through exceptional mentoring, influential industry connections and career-defining experiences, the Award helps ambitious people accelerate their careers, broaden their perspectives and create meaningful impact across the primary industries sector.

• Learn from exceptional leaders.

• Connect with the best in trans-Tasman agriculture.

• Experience opportunities few early-career professionals ever receive.

• Grow your capability, professionally and personally

The Responsible Wood Community Grants Program aims to enhance the connection and build positive long-lasting relationships with local community groups and their local forests and the forest managers, by:

• Supporting communities undertake projects or activities that better enable physical connection of people and forests or wood products.
• Providing an opportunity for communities to leverage funding from a variety of sources to complete forest access or timber utilisation projects that otherwise would not be possible.
• Supporting certified forest growers and chain of custody producers to build their relationships with their local communities.
• Linking community with Responsible Wood certified forest growers or timber product producers who have Responsible Wood Chain of Custody certification.
• Providing an opportunity to promote to local communities the value and benefits of sustainably managed certified forests and wood products.
• Supporting the forest industries through promotion of Responsible Wood certification.

The Young Promoter Fund supports music promoters aged 18-30 to deliver contemporary live music events, build professional skills, grow community connections, and strengthen pathways into the live music industry.

You can request up to $5,000 per event, to a maximum of $25,000. 

Additional funding is available for young promoters to engage a mentor to support the development and delivery of their live music series. There are two types of mentorship opportunities:

• applicant identified mentorship – if you already have an experienced industry professional you want to be mentored by you can request an extra $5,000 to support their involvement. You just need to allocate this additional request into your grant request and justify it with eligible costs in the expenditure table of your budget.
• Sound NSW facilitated mentorship – if successful, we can find an experienced industry professional to act as your mentor. We will pay the mentor directly. 

The Creative NSW Collaboration Fund is intended to back projects that bring together a number of creative disciplines and demonstrate strong public visibility, alignment with major festival periods, and potential to tour, remount or reach interstate or international markets. 

The fund is to support ambitious, creative collaborations and partnerships that develop and present new or significantly expanded creative activity and build a critical mass of experiences during NSW’s peak summer and winter periods.

The program prioritises:

• creative led collaboration across artforms, supporting mid-tier to established practitioners to evolve their practice, networks, and develop new audiences at existing festivals or events, or in partnership with a NSW Cultural Institution,
• new activity that complements or uplifts existing festivals or events, or activates precincts or public spaces during these key periods,
• accessible and unexpected audience experiences.

The program will:

• support the development and presentation of high-quality collaborative works that combine a number of creative disciplines
• prioritise projects with scale and public visibility, including projects presented in public space, in precincts or in connection with established summer or winter festival periods
• encourage partnerships between artists, creative organisations or collectives and festivals, or NSW cultural institutions and other NSW Government agencies
• support proposals that deliver strong artistic outcomes while demonstrating feasible delivery and sound governance
• develop and expand audiences, with priority on young people, all ages and accessibility for the community.

The objective of the grant opportunity is to provide co-funding for dealerships and repairers to install EV chargers.

The intended outcomes of the grant opportunity are to:

• increase in the number of EV charging stations throughout the country including remote and regional areas
• increase the number of EVs on the roads.

You can apply if you:

• have an Australian business number (ABN)
• have an account with an Australian financial institution
• are an entity, incorporated in Australia.

You must also be one of the following:

• a licenced motor dealer/trader
• a service centre associated with a licenced motor dealer/trader
• an automotive repair business, compliant with Australian Standards 5732:202 2 (EV operations – maintenance and repair) and which has at least one current member of staff suitable qualified to undertake work on EVs.

To be eligible for a rebate, you must have purchased and installed at least one eligible smart EV charger(s) at an eligible site (listed in section 4.2 of the grant opportunity Guidelines) on or after 26 March 2024.

Eligible smart EV chargers include:

• AC plugs with 7 kW charging speed (single phase)
• AC plugs with 11-22 kW charging speed
• DC plugs with 50 kW or less charging speed.

The Petstock Foundation grant program supports organisations that align with their vision and purpose.

Vision
To create a community where all animals are respected, loved and treated as part of the family resulting in a happier, healthier life for all.

Purpose
We are committed to making a long-term difference and positive change in the lives of pets and families within our community through education and raising awareness.

Preferred charities will display the following characteristics:

• Clearly defined needs and suitability
• Clearly stated outputs and outcomes, including the measures that will assess whether these have been achieved
• Development and building of existing organisational strength
• A thoroughly considered and mapped sustainability proposal
• Leverage potential impact that extends beyond the target group
• A contribution to knowledge and practice in the sector of operation
• Tax status to be eligible for a grant

They are looking for organisations or projects that create long-term change and care for or help rehabilitate those in need (whether that's people, animals or the planet!).

• ASSIST abused, abandoned and neglected pets through rescue, rehabilitation and/and rehoming initiatives;
• will SUPPORT those who require assistance within our communities through companion animal projects and disaster assistance;
• will help raise AWARENESS about rescue pets, animal health and the impact of animals on human happiness and health.

There are multiple grants available to people in the process of buying a new home who meet the eligibility criteria.

Grant amounts include:

• Up to $2,500 for legal and administrative costs.
• Up to $10,000 to  match the house deposit you've saved. 
• Up to $20,000 in co-contribution for eligible long-term AHO residents. 

To be eligible for a Home Ownership grant, you must be an Aboriginal person who:

• has saved at least $1,000 toward a deposit
• has a maximum individual or combined annual income of up to $200,000
• currently lives in NSW and is purchasing a property in NSW
• does not currently own residential property (unless it's land you intend to build on)
• has not qualified for Indigenous Business Australia (IBA) Remote Indigenous Home Loan package.

This grant is designed for people who are most in need and meet the eligibility criteria.

For this second round of the Powering the Regions Fund - Safeguard Transformation Stream approximately $321 million is available from 2025-26 to 2032-33.

The objectives of the grant opportunity are to:

• support trade-exposed facilities covered by the Safeguard Mechanism to reduce their emissions and contribute to meeting Australia’s 2030, 2035 and 2050 emissions reduction targets
• reduce the risk of carbon leakage, which occurs when a business responds to emissions reduction policies by moving emissions-intensive production to a country with less stringent policies
• provide skills development to existing industrial workforce in new equipment or processes that contribute to the reduction of scope 1 emissions.

The intended outcome of this grant opportunity is a reduction of emissions at trade exposed Safeguard facilities consistent with their obligations under the Safeguard Mechanism.

You can apply if you:

• are an owner or operator of a trade-exposed safeguard mechanism facility that is not a new or expanded gas or coal facility
• have an Australian business number (ABN)

And are one of the following entities:

• an entity incorporated in Australia
• company limited by guarantee
• incorporated association.

The purpose of this grant is to provide Australian Government funding to support a wage increase for all eligible ECEC workers from December 2024.

Eligible ECEC workers include:

• workers covered by the Children’s Services Award 2010 and working in a Child Care Subsidy (CCS) approved Centre-Based Day Care (CBDC) or Outside School Hours Care (OSHC) service;
• workers covered by the Educational Services (Teachers) Award 2020 and working in a CCS approved CBDC or OSHC service; and
• workers who are undertaking duties covered by the Children’s Services Award 2010 or Educational Services (Teachers) Award 2020 and working in a CCS approved CBDC or OSHC service but are not covered by these awards (including workers covered by a state industrial instrument, or working in a setting covered by a different award), and these duties constitute the majority of that workers role. 

Trainees who are undertaking a registered traineeship and whose pay and conditions are not covered by the Children’s Services Award 2010 or the Educational Services (Teachers) Award 2020 are not included as eligible ECEC workers. 

To be eligible you must be a legal entity that provides CBDC or OSHC services (a Provider). One Provider may apply in relation to one or multiple service locations (Services) that the Provider owns and operates.

The Australian Government has announced a total of up to $3.744 million (GST exclusive) for the VWG Program for the 2026–27 financial year. Applications will be considered under 2 grant streams:

• Stream A Small Grants (up to a maximum of $50,000 per grant)
• Stream B Large Grants (from $50,001 to a maximum of $200,000 per grant).

There is no set proportion of the funding allocated per stream.

The objectives of the VWG Program are to:

• maintain and improve the independence and quality of life of members of the veteran community, by providing funding for activities and projects that sustain or enhance health and social wellbeing
• deliver activities and projects not already provided by Australian, state, territory or local government funding to the veteran community to build future community capacity
• expand on existing activities and projects offered to the veteran community in new regions within Australia or in the development of new activities and projects that will be offered in more than one location
• raise awareness of the important issues faced by the veteran community.

To be eligible to apply, the organisation must be an eligible entity type and be either:

• an ESO applying in its own right, or as the lead organisation of a consortium, or
• a non-ESO applying as the lead organisation of a consortium that includes at least one ESO, and

one of the following legal entity types:

• Company
• Cooperative
• Incorporated Association
• Indigenous Corporation
• Statutory Entity
• Unincorporated Association – grant activities up to $10,000 only.

The GrainCorp Sponsorship Program is designed to support local sporting clubs and community events in regional and rural communities, helping foster social connection, promote inclusion, and encourage positive health and wellbeing outcomes for our employees, customers, and the broader community.

Sponsorships are provided as financial contributions in return for agreed promotion of the GrainCorp brand, services, or initiatives.

Please note: Sponsorship applications are not accepted during February and July, as this period is dedicated to our Community Grants program.