Community wellbeing support grants
Grant application dates
Applications for the 2021/2022 program have closed. The next grant round will open in early 2022.
About the Community Wellbeing and Support Grants Program
The Community Wellbeing and Support Grants Program helps to establish new organisations, projects and services.
It funds initiatives that:
- improve residents' health and wellbeing
- support opportunities for volunteering
- build the capacity of community groups, projects and programs to be sustainable.
Funding categories
There are 3 categories of funding:
Seeding grants (up to $5,000)
These grants can be used to support establishment costs of a new organisation, group, club, project, program or service.
Examples include:
- promotional material to advertise a new program or group
- incorporation fees
- insurance
- design costs for a newsletter or website
- purchase of small items of equipment.
Where insurance costs are requested in the set-up of an organisation, Council will commit to funding this cost for the first year only.
Other ongoing costs must be evidenced to be sustained without further Council support beyond the first year of its life.
Volunteering grants (up to $3,000)
These grants can be used to undertake a range of initiatives that will grow and develop volunteering within Cardinia Shire.
Examples include:
- establishing volunteering programs
- training and developing volunteers, where not mandated by regulation, nor within the scope of training that is provided by the organisation*
- promotion of volunteering opportunities.
*Applications cannot include requests for support for training already subsidised by Council.
Small change grants (up to $1,000)
These grants can be used to assist with a range of ad hoc costs that cannot be met through other funding sources.
Examples include:
- purchase of small items of equipment
- uniforms
- website redevelopment
- short term projects
- Christmas decorations.
Operating costs associated with the day-to-day running of an organisation/group will not be funded through small change grants. If the organisation/group cannot continue without the item/program/service then it is considered an operating cost.
What won't be funded
- Activities which are a primary or core service and/or responsibility of Council or State or Federal governments
- Initiatives from an individual rather than a group
- Private, profit-making organisations
- Political organisations
- Capital works projects (as defined in Council’s Community Capital Works Grants Policy)
- Public space/township beautification projects
- Replacement of existing equipment and/or furnishings at community and recreational facilities
- Maintenance of community or recreational facilities
- Events
- Operating costs
- Existing salaries
Is my group eligible?
To be eligible for this grants program, groups and organisations must be:
- not-for-profit; and
- locally based and/or servicing Cardinia Shire residents;
- a Community Asset Committee of Council; or
- incorporated (or be auspiced by an incorporated organisation – please note, Community Asset Committees cannot take on the function of an auspice).
If a licence, lease or funding agreement exists between Council and the community organisation, then the agreements need to be signed and current in order for applications to be considered.
Community groups with incomplete or outstanding projects are not eligible to apply for further projects and applications will not be considered.
Projects funded in 2020 -2021
Recipient |
Project receiving funding |
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3MDR |
3MDR Volunteer Development |
Arena JETZ Netball Club |
Arena JETZ Netball Club Website Development |
Beaconsfield Neighbourhood Centre |
Cookery equipment for community programs |
Bestchance |
Establishment of "Tuning in to Kids" Parenting Program |
Bunyip Connect |
Establishment of Bunyip Connect Progress Association |
Bunyip Football Club |
Sporting equipment for Women's Football Team |
Bunyip Strikers Soccer Club |
Equipment for operations of organisation |
Bunyip Tennis Club |
Hats for junior players |
Cardinia Deer Management Coalition |
Information packs for local landoweners |
Cardinia Gujarati Association |
Equipment for operations of organisation |
Cardinia Lakes Residents Group |
Development of promotional material |
Cardinia Men's Shed |
Pyrography set and Oscillating Sander |
Cockatoo Community House |
Here For The Holidays - school holiday program |
Cockatoo Country Market |
UHF Radios |
Cockatoo History and Heritage Group |
Audio Visual and Recording Equipment |
Eastern Dandenong Ranges Association (EDRA) |
Equipment for operations of organisation |
Emerald U3A |
Expansion of Music Sharing Group |
Emerald RSL |
Club Furnishings |
Fallingwater Residents Association |
Establishment of Fallingwater Residents Association |
Fernlea |
Fernlea House equipment |
Fit to Drive Foundation |
Fit to Drive Program |
Friends of Harbury Reserve Committee of Management |
Botanical Course |
Gippsland Storm Netball Club |
Gippsland Storm Netball volunteer assistance and recruitment |
IACC |
IACC Kids Club Sports Clinics |
Koo Wee Rup Regional Health Service |
Koo Wee Rup Cook Book |
Ladies Probus Club of Emerald |
Audio Visual Equipment |
Lakeside Residents Group |
Gazebo Weights |
Living Learning Pakenham |
Financial Wellbeing to Empower Women Program |
Living Learning Pakenham - Pakenham Community Garden |
Educational signage for the World Food Gardens |
Mecwacare |
Rivendell House Strength Training Equipment |
Multicultural Sports Group |
Multicultural Sports Equipment |
Outlook Community Centre |
The Outlook Dementia Friendly Cafe |
Pakenham Eels Women's NRL Club |
Pakenham Eels Women's NRL League Touch Football Competition |
Pakenham Rugby League Club and Touch Association |
Junior Team Club Uniforms |
Riding For The Disabled - Pakenham |
Riding For The Disabled - Pakenham Volunteer Development |
Riding For The Disabled - Pakenham |
Riding For The Disabled - Pakenham Uniforms |
Upper Beaconsfield Community Centre |
Bingo Night |
Upper Beaconsfield Wildlife Road Toll Survey Group |
Upper Beaconsfield Wildlife Road Toll Survey Group Volunteer Development |
Very Special Kids |
Keeping Strong Program |
West Gippsland Progress Association |
West Gippsland Progress Association - Communities in Partnership |
Women's Association South East Melbourne Australia (WASEMA) |
Officer and Cockatoo Women's Frienship Cafe's website development |
Questions?
For more information contact our Community Development Team on 1300 787 624 or mail@cardinia.vic.gov.au