initiative established by Tennis NSW which aims to stimulate investment in community tennis facilities which will assist to grow the sport and make it (and its venues) more sustainable and accessible.
The Fund is for small to medium sized facility upgrades or enhancements typically between $10,000 and $250,000 in total value. The FEF may fund up to 25% of eligible total project value or between $2,500 to a maximum of $50,000.
In the 2025 Round, up to $500,000 has been made available for eligible applicants.
Eligible to: Government, non-government, education, community groups, sporting clubs, businesses
Applications open: at 9:00, Monday 30 June 2025
Applications close: at 17:00, Monday 4 August 2025
initiative established by Tennis NSW which aims to stimulate investment in community tennis facilities which will assist to grow the sport and make it (and its venues) more sustainable and accessible.
The Fund is for small to medium sized facility upgrades or enhancements typically between $10,000 and $250,000 in total value. The FEF may fund up to 25% of eligible total project value or between $2,500 to a maximum of $50,000.
In the 2025 Round, up to $500,000 has been made available for eligible applicants.
Eligible to: Government, non-government, education, community groups, sporting clubs, businesses
Applications open: at 9:00, Monday 30 June 2025
Applications close: at 17:00, Monday 4 August 2025
Allocates funding to not-for-profit community groups to help them provide services, leisure activities and opportunities for Queensland communities.
The Gambling Community Benefit Fund (GCBF) is Queensland’s largest one-off community grants program and distributes approximately $60 million each year to not-for-profit community groups. The GCBF funding helps these groups to provide services, leisure activities and opportunities for Queensland communities.
The GCBF will have 3 funding rounds in 2025:
- $35,000 standard grant round—closes 28 February
- $100,000 super round—closes 30 June
- $35,000 standard grant round—closes 31 October.
Eligible to: Non-Government, education, health, community groups, sporting clubs, other
Round 3: Closes: 30 Jun 2025
Round 4: Closes: 31 Oct 2025
Encourages partnerships and agreements between schools and community sporting groups to better utilise existing sporting facilities.
The program, developed by the Department of Local Government Sport and Cultural Industries (DLGSC) and the Department of Education, will identify, expand and enhance opportunities to:
- Increase access to sporting facilities for community sporting groups
- Improve school sporting facilities and their useability
- Support schools in making their sporting facilities accessible outside school hours without compromising student safety or educational activities
- Encourage partnerships between schools and community sporting groups through community use agreements
- Focus on areas of high demand for community sporting facilities.
Eligible to: Education
Applications close: at 11:59, Friday 4 Jul 2025
Provides funding to assist regional football and netball clubs, associations and umpiring organisations to upgrade and develop facilities in rural, regional and outer metropolitan locations.
Examples of projects eligible for funding include the following:
- Developing new, or redeveloping existing change rooms and pavilions to increase capacity, inclusion and safety
- Developing new, or redeveloping existing sports ovals and courts to increase capacity, inclusion and safety
- Sports lighting that improves capacity, inclusion and safety. Lighting projects may include installing new LED lighting infrastructure, or replacing non-LED lighting with LED lamps to meet lighting standards
- Projects that result in energy or water efficiency, with a direct impact on participation, such as warm-season grass conversions
- Projects that benefit multi-use outcomes where football or netball is the primary beneficiary.
Eligible to: Sporting clubs, government
Applications close: at 11:59, Monday 07 Jul 2025
Provides funding towards services, leisure activities and opportunities for Territorians.
If you want to apply for a major community grant in the Northern Territory (NT) you must be either:
- An NT based non-profit community organisation
- An NT regional council.
You can apply for funding twice each financial year.
Eligible to: Government
Round 4: Opens: 01 Jul 2025, Closes: 31 Aug 2025
Awards grants for community infrastructure projects that deliver positive social, environmental and recreational outcomes while also promoting community participation, inclusion and cohesion.
CBP awards grants for community infrastructure projects that deliver positive social, environmental and recreational outcomes.
Eligible to: Government, non-government, education, community groups, sporting clubs, health, other
Round 4: Opens: 01 Sep 2025*
Supports community-based welfare projects.
Over the past years we have seen a significant increase in Disaster funding requests as our nation has been impacted in many ways through fire, flood, drought, cyclones etc. Impact has been seen by individuals through to whole communities and the Australian Lions Foundation has provided support funding to assist ways to match the needs.
Eligible to: Community groups, other
Applications close: Ad hoc ongoing
The Community Place Based Grants program provides funding for the development and delivery of co-designed, place based structured holiday and out-of-school activity programs in the Kimberley, Goldfields, Pilbara and Gascoyne regions.
The program includes a process to work with local government, Aboriginal leaders and service organisations, to embed sport and recreation in community-led activities and events that target vulnerable and at-risk youth and their families.
The aim is to fund programs for multiple years to ensure a consistent quality approach to programs to get traction, build capacity and have a collective impact.
Eligible to: Non-Government, government, community groups, sporting clubs
Applications close: Ad hoc ongoing
Provides funding to improve the safety and operation of schools through new or improved infrastructure at the school and/or on the surrounding road network.
The desired outcome of the STIP is to construct new or improve transport related infrastructure at the school and/or on the surrounding road network to:
- Improve the safety and operation of transport at schools, and
- Provide long term road safety improvements for all road users travelling to and from a school and/or travelling near a school environment in Queensland.
Eligible to: Non-Government, government, education, health, community groups, sporting clubs
Applications close: Ad hoc ongoing
The Community Place Based Grants program provides funding for the development and delivery of co-designed, place based structured holiday and out-of-school activity programs in the Kimberley, Goldfields, Pilbara and Gascoyne regions.
The program includes a process to work with local government, Aboriginal leaders and service organisations, to embed sport and recreation in community-led activities and events that target vulnerable and at-risk youth and their families.
The aim is to fund programs for multiple years to ensure a consistent quality approach to programs to get traction, build capacity and have a collective impact.
Eligible to: Non-Government, government, community groups, sporting clubs
Applications close: Ad hoc ongoing
Provides funding for projects that create additional infrastructure capacity for funded Three and Four-Year-Old Kindergarten programs by building new or expanding existing infrastructure.
The Building Blocks Grants Program has replaced the Children’s Facilities Capital Program and Inclusive Kindergartens Facilities Program as the Victorian Government’s investment vehicle through which funding support for existing and growing demand for Three and Four-Year-Old Kindergarten infrastructure is allocated. This will mean the sector can more easily navigate the options available when seeking state co-investment in their facilities.
Eligible to: Government, education
Applications close: Ad hoc ongoing
This investment has been bolstered by the commitment of additional funding to the ACIF via the Grassroots Cricket Fund (GCF) of $1 million for 2023/24. The GCF is a partnership between the Australian Cricketers’ Association and Cricket Australia, with the funding being contributed by Australian cricketers to support cricket in local communities.
The ACIF is open to all clubs, associations, schools, councils and cricket facility managers, acknowledging the important role that these partners play in providing facilities for community cricket across Australia.
Eligible to: Non-Government, government, community groups, education, sporting clubs, other
Applications close: Each State and Territory Association varies
Supports local organisations, charities and projects that address areas of need in the Newcastle community.
The focus of the Programme is to:
– Deliver value back to the Newcastle community – particularly portside suburbs
– Address a specific need or opportunity within the community to contribute to the overall sustainability of the region
– Deliver benefit to many people (not just individuals)
– Build capacity, skills and/or knowledge within organisations or groups.
Eligible to: Non-Government, community groups, education, sporting clubs
Applications close: Ad hoc
Bowls Australia is committed to redirecting one-hundred per cent of all sums raised back to those clubs in need, who are able to access monies from the fund via an application process.
Applications for the Bowls Disaster Relief Fund are open for clubs who have been affected by recent natural disasters:
Eligible to: Bowling clubs
Applications close: Ad hoc
