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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.

Energy Consumers Australia (ECA)’s Grants Program supports work that provides a strong, evidence base for positive system changes that benefit households and small businesses.

Influence Grants: these grants are designed to target immediate influence on a specific and achievable goal regarding matters of material significance to residential and small business energy consumers. Influence Grants projects tend to be less complex than Collaboration Grants and are typically 12-18 months in duration.

Collaboration Grants: these grants support complex, multi-year projects and often involve more than one project partner. Collaboration Grants will focus on contributing to policy or advocacy outcomes and will involve close cooperation with advocates and other stakeholders. These projects will answer key questions identified in their 3-Year Plan and will involve ECA as a collaborator. As these programs fund projects, successful applications will outline a clear project structure with a beginning, middle and end. Funding will not be provided for ongoing activity or an organisation’s BAU.

To be eligible you must be either:

• A not-for profit organisation within Australia, with a purpose or a mandate that permits you to carry out advocacy for household and small business energy consumers. This can include a social enterprise that is registered as a not-for-profit within Australia; or
• A bonafide research organisation with a public purpose.

Further requirements for all grantees:

• An Australian Business Number (ABN)
• A legal entity with the capacity to enter into a legally binding funding agreement

Ineligible applicants include councils, government agencies, an unincorporated association, or an overseas organisation.

The Moree Plains Shire Council is seeking to support 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 oneoff maximum payment of up to $5,000. The money can be used on a wide range of business development purposes, as outlined in the guidelines.

Objectives of the grant

1. Encourage businesses to increase street appeal in our towns and village centres.
2. Encourage businesses to expand the range goods and services on offer.
3. Encourage business collaboration, training and staff development
4. Encourage local spending (i.e. through using suppliers of goods and services within Moree Plains Shire)
5. Support increased employment opportunities.
6. Inspire businesses to trial new business concepts and stimulate additional growth
7. Encourage Indigenous business expansion.

Cash co-contributions relative to the amount requested will be considered favourably.

Eligible Applicants

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.

Australian Cultural Fund (ACF) Boost is the ACF’s annual matched funding opportunity for individual artists, collectives, and organisations who want to fundraise from private sector support through their ACF campaign. First-time fundraisers to those with previous fundraising experience are welcome to apply. 

Successful ACF Boost participants will run a fundraising campaign for their arts and cultural project on the ACF platform between 1 February 2027 - 30 April 2027. The funds raised will receive a matched funding ‘boost’ of up to $5,000. 

To be eligible, applicants must meet the ACF’s registration criteria: 

• I am engaged in the promotion and presentation of arts and cultural activities
• I will use a grant from Creative Australia within Australia or for the benefit of Australia. 

In addition, applicants must: 

• be an Australian Citizen or permanent resident
• be aged 18 years or over
• have an active ABN and be prepared to receive project funds, or have an agreement in place with an auspicing body
• apply with a project that falls under at least one of the cultural forms as specified in the ITAA 97: literature, music, a performing art, a visual art, a craft, design, film, video, television, radio, community arts, arts or languages of Indigenous persons or movable cultural heritage
• be prepared and willing to run a fundraising campaign between 1 February 2027 - 30 April 2027.

The NSW Community Bands Program provides support for community bands located across NSW to support youth participation and engagement in community music.

Through on-demand, quick response funding, the program will address challenges in sustaining community bands in NSW due to limited access to funding, dispersed populations from which to draw membership and travel required for members to participate.

The intended outcomes of the Program are:

• Increased access to music activities and education in NSW communities
• A stable or increased number of active community bands across NSW
• Increased community connections in NSW communities
• Increased youth engagement and participation in NSW community bands.

The Music Australia OMG Contemporary Music Opportunity aims to provide support for Australian artists when those unique career-defining 'I can’t believe it' opportunities come knocking at short notice, outside of existing grant rounds. 

The program supports emerging, breakthrough and established acts and is available to Australian citizens or permanent residents who are current practising music artists. This includes solo artists, instrumentalists, bands, ensembles, DJ/producers and electronic artists, producers, songwriters and composers. 

Eligibility

Your activity must meet the following definition of contemporary music to be eligible:   

“Australian contemporary music is any genre or subgenre of music currently composed, written, produced by Australians and licensed, recorded, presented, and distributed through commercial and non-commercial activity. For the purposes of Music Australia’s investments, the focus is on musical works that are new, original and relevant to contemporary Australia”. 

• the offer has come at short notice (within 3 weeks)
• the activity must start between 2 and 8 weeks from the date you make the submission
• the offer / opportunity must be 100% confirmed and guaranteed with supporting documentation provided
• the opportunity must be new and have arisen unexpectedly
• all other avenues of funding support must have been exhausted or not open or accessible at the time of making the OMG application. This includes grant programs managed by Music Australia, Creative Australia, or any State or Territory arts funding body
• you cannot apply for activity that has been unsuccessful in a previous funding round managed by Music Australia or Creative Australia.
• the opportunity must be significant for the artist with undeniable career impact. This may include a tour or other opportunity with a major Australian or international artist, a last-minute offer to perform at a major international festival or other significant event. It is acknowledged that 'career milestone' opportunities are relative to each individual applicant and will be taken into account. 

Who can apply 

• current practising solo artists, instrumentalists, bands, ensembles, DJ/producers and electronic artists, producers, songwriters and/or composers individually or in groups
• organisations and music businesses on behalf of their artists
• for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander applicants, opportunities must be clearly professional/export‑oriented rather than primarily cultural exchange or cultural diplomacy. Activities that are primarily for cultural exchange/diplomacy should apply through other Creative Australia grant opportunities, and through agencies such as the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade.

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.