2024/25 Volunteer Grants
EXPRESSIONS OF INTEREST NOW OPEN

Expressions of Interest for the Volunteer Grants program 2024-25 are now open for organisations based in Cunningham.

Volunteer Grants recognise the valuable role volunteers play in building more resilient and cohesive communities. Grants of between $1000 and $5000 are available to help community organisations to support their volunteers.

This year, changes have been made to the Volunteer Grants program to better respond to the environment volunteer organisations are now faced with and our government’s commitment to children and young people.

There are now two categories for Volunteer Grants which reflect areas of high demand for volunteer organisations:

• Category 1: for communications and IT items (such as laptops, phones, payment devices and software), and paying for insurance premiums.
• Category 2: for items and services that support the development and well-being of children and young people under 18.

These changes mean Volunteer Grant funding will be more targeted to where it is needed most.

The Volunteer Grants will fund volunteer organisations for costs associated with any activity helping and supporting children and young people under 18, to help with the costs of modernising their operations and to cover key costs, including insurance premiums and internet bills.

To be eligible you must:

• Be a legal and eligible entity, or
• Be an unincorporated association that agrees to the primary contact on your application entering into an agreement on behalf of the Unincorporated Association. This means that if your grant application is approved, the primary contact will assume all legal liability and become personally liable for the delivery of the funded activity, expenditure of funds and any other associated obligations arising from the grant agreement validly executed.

As well as:

• Have a minimum of 40% of volunteers working for your organisation
• Be a not-for-profit organisation
• Have an Australian Business Number (ABN) or be willing to provide a Statement by Supplier Form (reason for not quoting an ABN). Please refer to the Australian Tax Office website for further information
• Have a bank account with an Australian financial institution in the name of the organisation applying.

More information on the eligibility criteria can be found in the grant opportunity guidelines here: Grant Opportunity Guidelines.

Please fill out the form below and return to my office by 11:59 PM Sunday 12 January 2025.  Please return the completed form to [email protected].

Once the Expression of Interest is closed, successful applicants will be invited to formally apply from 26 February 2025, with formal applications due by 12 March 2025.

Please note that the expression of interest form is a fillable PDF document.
Please ensure you complete this digitally to ensure there are no errors whilst processing your application. 

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