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.
CBP will consider funding requests between $10,000 and $100,000 for projects in NSW involving:
Eligible to: Government, non-Government, education, health, community groups, sporting clubs, other
Applications open: Monday, 1 Sep 2025
Provides funding to support sport and recreation infrastructure such as sports centres, playgrounds and swimming pools.
The objective of the Clubgrants Category 3 Infrastructure Grants program is to fund the costs of construction, alteration, renovation, completion and fit-out of buildings and community infrastructure to deliver outcomes for disadvantaged NSW communities including regional, remote and drought-affected areas, culturally and linguistically diverse, disability and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities and disaster-affected communities. This grant is one of four Clubgrants Category 3 Infrastructure Grants administered by the Office of Responsible Gambling.
You can apply for funding under this stream if your project supports infrastructure such as:
- Indoor organised sports centre (e.g. indoor cricket, basketball)
- Leisure centre (e.g. martial arts dojo, gymnastics centre)
- Outdoor organised sports facility (e.g. football field, netball courts)
- Recreation space (e.g. playground, skate-park)
- Large-scale purpose-built facility (e.g. stadium, velodrome, motorsports facility)
- Water sports (e.g swimming pool).
Eligible to: Government, non-Government, education, health, community groups, sporting clubs, other
Applications open: Monday, 24 Nov 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.
Priority 1
Applications for infrastructure improvements or asset purchases that can demonstrate an ongoing community benefit beyond the period of funding.
Priority 2
Applications that support the growth of the NT and:
- Provide multi-level stimulus through the outcome of the grant
- Also use local suppliers and contractors in the process of completing the grant.
You can apply for funding twice each financial year. Round 1 opens 1 July and closes 31 August. Round 2 opens 1 January and closes 28 February.
Eligible to: Government, non-government, community groups
Applications close: Sunday, 31 Aug 2025
Encourages partnerships and agreements between schools and community sporting groups to better utilise existing sporting facilities.
Eligible applicants can apply for up to $50,000 in total, across the following categories:
- Other relevant activities that help enhance facility usage: Any other relevant activities aimed at increasing the usage of school sporting facilities
- Minor improvements to existing facilities: Minor improvements to existing facilities include small-scale upgrades that make sporting facilities safe and available for use outside of school hours
- Minor playing surface upgrade of oval or hardcourts: Improvements to the surfaces of sports fields or courts to ensure better playability and safety
- Minor equipment or infrastructure: Acquisition or installation of small-scale items that make facilities appropriate for use by community sporting groups.
Eligible to: Education
Applications close: Friday, 12 Sep 2025
Funds infrastructure upgrades to make kindergarten activities safer, more inclusive and accessible to children of all abilities.
Buildings and playgrounds grants are offered to improve early childhood buildings and facilities to provide safe and more inclusive environments for children of all abilities. Funding is for fixed fittings and equipment.
What can be funded:
- Project management costs
- Planning and design costs that result in a completed playground or building upgrade
- Site preparation, including clearing or demolition
- Construction and commissioning
- Landscaping and accessible car parking
- Fixed fittings and fixed equipment
- Soil contamination assessment
- A Division 6 Asbestos Audit Assessment completed before the application is submitted
- Removal of contaminates on project sites such as asbestos/arsenic/ heavy metals.
Eligible to: Non-Government, government, education, community groups
Applications close: Friday, 22 Sep 2025
Subject to the availability of funds in any round, Approved Authorities may apply for a subsidy of up to 50% of costs (ex GST) for eligible independent schools in the areas of:
- Payment of infrastructure charges, as levied by a relevant entity as part of an application or proposal for development, and
- Investigation, design and construction of relevant external infrastructure, in accordance with the conditions and requirements of any formal approval process of a relevant entity.
To be eligible for EIS grants for a school, an Approved Authority must:
- Be accredited and eligible to receive Queensland Government recurrent funds for the levels of education to which the proposed project relates, and
- Have entered into a QIS BGA Participation Agreement.
Note that ANY school-based capital project may trigger the need for EIS funds. This includes projects that may have received CGP or SCAS funds, as well as those projects that are self-funded.
Eligible to: Education
Applications close: Friday, 24 Oct 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
Applications close: Friday, 31 Oct 2025
Enhances the capacity of facilities and football infrastructure for all user groups, from state to local grassroots venues.
The creation of this Fund will enable SANFL, AFL and State Government to achieve the shared strategic vision of creating welcoming facilities, particularly through provision of all gender change rooms for players, officials and umpires, as well as maximising venue capacities by improving quality of ovals, lighting and supporting infrastructure.
The Fund provides funding to assist local governments, Australian Rules football clubs, umpiring associations, schools and tertiary education institutions to develop Australian Rules football facilities across South Australia.
Eligible to: Government, non-Government, education, health, community groups, sporting clubs, other
Applications close: Friday, 5 Dec 2025
Funds smart infrastructure, technology and upgrades that support future industry focused collaborative projects.
Who is it for?
- Stakeholders who represent existing regional innovation precincts and places.
What are the grant/program objectives?
- The fund provides grants for the establishment of infrastructure and the acquisition of plant and equipment — including digital infrastructure and upgrades that support future industry-focused collaborative projects.
What does it involve?
- Funding for capital works including building infrastructure, digital infrastructure and the cost of plant and equipment.
Eligible to: Non-Government, education, health, community groups, sporting clubs, other
Applications close: Wednesday, 30 Jun 2027
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:
Eligible to: Non-Government, government, education, health, community groups, sporting clubs
Applications close: Ad hoc ongoing
Assists local clubs and stakeholders to develop AFL related infrastructure at ACT located venues in order to meet the required needs and have the capacity to grow the game.
This program has a particular focus on developing some of the key basic infrastructure required for community football growth, capacity and development such as change rooms and lighting.
Eligible to: 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:
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
