The Nillumbik Shire Council has announced the
applications for Quick Response Grants to provide funding to support them to
develop one-off projects to benefit and engage the Nillumbik community.
Funding Information
Amount: $1,000 from a grant pool of $10,000
What can be
funded?
Funding is available to assist with costs such
as:
- Start-up and establishment
costs
- Purchase or hire of materials
and equipment
- Consultant, speaker, provider
or artist fees
- Communications, media and
marketing
- Promotional and advertising
costs and materials, such as brochures, newsletters, websites and signage
- Venue or meeting room hire charges
- Transport costs for activity
participants
- Volunteer support expenses
- Costs to support participation
or people with a disability with the project or activity
- Insurances and other costs
related to good governance
Eligibility Criteria
To be eligible for consideration, applicants
must:
- Be an incorporated not-for
profit organisation or community group that lives, works, studies,
volunteers or plays in Nillumbik
- Be auspiced by an incorporated
body for unincorporated groups
- Hold a minimum of $10 million
public liability insurance
- Have acquitted and is compliant
with all Nillumbik grants previously awarded by Council
- Spend the funds before 30 June
2022
Ineligible
Applications will NOT be considered for:
- A project, event or activity
that is not being held in the Nillumbik municipal boundary, or does not
directly benefit Nillumbik residents
- Ongoing payment of salaries,
administrative, maintenance or organisational operating costs
- Duplication of existing
projects, programs, initiatives or products currently funded by Council.
If you wish to leverage off an existing project, program, initiative or
product you must identify the innovative element or point of
difference/value add
- Curriculum based activities in
schools
- Projects that are solely for
fundraising purposes, without broader community benefit
- Competitions with no community
component
- Prize money and awards
- Projects or events with a
political or religious purpose
- Any project that purely
promotes a business
- Events that are fully ticketed
with no free or heavily subsidized component
- Single membership-based events
that are not open to the public
- Alcohol or gambling related
activities
- Projects that have received
full funding from another source
- Retrospective funding or
projects which are due to commence prior to the notification of the
application outcome
- Applicants that are in debt to
or have any outstanding commitments with the Shire.
Post Date - 22-Jul-2021