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 3: Opens: 28 Jan 2025, Closes: 21 Feb 2025
Round 4: Opens: 01 Sep 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 2: Closes: 28 Feb 2025
Round 3: Closes: 30 Jun 2025
Round 4: Closes: 31 Oct 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 3: Opens: 01 Jan 2025, Closes: 28 Feb 2025
Round 4: Opens: 01 Jul 2025, Closes: 31 Aug 2025
Helps build and upgrade Islamic schools.
The Victorian Government committed $450 million in the 2023-24 State Budget to build and upgrade low-fee Catholic and independent schools across the state.
The Building Fund for Non-Government Schools will allocate $30 million for Islamic schools.
Applications for the Islamic stream of the fund are open until the $30 million allocation is exhausted.
Eligible to: Education, businesses
Applications closes at 11:59, Monday 3 March 2025
Provides financial investment into community football facilities across the state.
Clubs will be able to apply for funding to support projects that have a positive impact on AFL participation and experience.
The AFL Facilities Fund program is open to:
- Local government authorities in New South Wales
- All affiliated Australian Football Clubs in New South Wales
- Schools based in NSW
- Other stakeholders invested in building the capacity of our facilities and growing the game.
Eligible to: Government, education, community groups, sporting clubs, businesses,
Applications closes at 11:59, Wednesday 12 March 2025
The Regional Community Sports Infrastructure Fund is a competitive Victorian Government investment program, open to Victorian rural and regional Local Government Authorities and Alpine Resorts Victoria.
The fund aims to deliver new and upgraded community sports infrastructure across four streams:
- Indoor Stadiums and Aquatic Facilities
- Community Facilities
- Women and Girls Facilities
- All Abilities Infrastructure.
Eligible to: Government
Applications closes at 11:59, Monday 17 March 2025
Provides funding for community cricket facility projects, with a focus on growing participation and promoting accessibility and inclusivity.
The ACIF provides funding in the following two categories:
1. Community Cricket Infrastructure Grants – Minor = $1,000 - $15,000
- Project examples: Pitches, practice facility refurbishment, minor change facility/pavilion refurbishment, supporting infrastructure (e.g. shade/shelter)
- Seed funding up to 50% of the total project cost.
2. Community Cricket Infrastructure Grants – Major = $15,001 - $40,000
- Project examples: New practice facilities, significant oval upgrades, sports lighting, change facility/pavilion upgrades, major refurbishments
- Seed funding up to 50% of the total project cost.
Eligible to: Government, non-government, education, community groups, sporting clubs, other
Applications closes at 11:59, Sunday 23 March 2025
Helps not-for-profit providers in the early childhood education and care sector create more spaces for children aged 0 to 6 for communities with the greatest immediate need.
The Building Early Learning Places Program (the program), supported by $20 million from the NSW Childcare and Economic Opportunity Fund, will be competitive and targeted, with one round open to eligible centre-based community preschools and long day care centres that plan to deliver ECEC places for priority groups as identified in the program guidelines. This trial will prioritise projects that are ready to start construction, and applicants must show they can start building within 12 months of receiving a successful outcome letter.
Eligible to: Government, non-Government, education, community Groups
Applications closes at 11:59, Sunday 30 March 2025
Provides financial assistance to community groups and local governments to develop basic infrastructure for sport and recreation.
The program aims to increase participation in sport and recreation, with an emphasis on physical activity, through rational development of sustainable, good quality, well-designed and well-utilised facilities.
Eligible to: Government, non-government, community groups, sporting clubs
Applications closes at 11:59, Monday 31 March 2025
Provides funding for councils in the Greater Sydney Region and Central Coast Council to enhance public open spaces by building more parks, playgrounds, walking tracks and restoring local bushlands.
The key objectives for this grant round are to:
- Improve regionally significant open space, including links between bushland, parks, centres and waterways
- Improve the critical ecosystem by restoring habitat
- Design and deliver projects that value and respect the cultural knowledge of the place
- Enable multiple uses of regionally significant open space
- Improve community access to a diverse mix of open space opportunities for Greater Sydney and the Central Coast
- Encourage partnerships between state, local government and our Aboriginal communities through co-design
- Support projects that demonstrate the principles of Connecting to Country.
Eligible to: Government
Applications closes at 11:59, Monday 31 March 2025
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
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
