Provides funding for research infrastructure, equipment and facilities to eligible organisations.
The scheme enables higher education researchers to participate in cooperative initiatives so that expensive infrastructure, equipment and facilities can be shared between higher education organisations and also with industry.
The scheme also fosters collaboration through its support of the cooperative use of international or national research facilities.
Eligible to: Non-Government, education, other
Applications closes at 11:59, Wednesday 9 April 2025
Provides grants to the sport and active recreation sector to build new, and upgrade existing, sport and active recreation infrastructure.
The Tasmanian Government recognises the importance of sport and active recreation and is committed to ensuring more Tasmanians, regardless of their age or background, get active and have places to play.
Projects must develop or improve functional and inclusive sport and active recreation infrastructure and may include (but are not limited to) change rooms, toilets and shower facilities, lighting, accessible paths and ramps, new courts and playing fields, safety/security and fencing for the activity.
Eligible to: Government, non-government, education, community groups, sporting clubs, health
Applications close: at 11:59, Wednesday 30 April 2025
Provides funding for community cricket facility projects, with a focus on growing participation and promoting accessibility and inclusivity.
The project can relate to any aspect of the facility, with multi-faceted projects that incorporate the addition and/or upgrade of multiple components within a facility being highly regarded.
To discuss any projects requiring investment of over $40,000 please contact the Government Relation and Infrastructure team
Eligible to: Non-Government, education, health, community groups, sporting clubs, other
Applications close: at 11:59, Monday 12 May 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 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
