Community Grants Program 2024/2025 Round 2

Before completing this application form, you should have read the Community Grant Program guidelines. 

Incomplete applications and/or applications received after the closing date will not be considered.

This section of the application form is designed to help determine if you are eligible for this grant. It's crucial that you complete these questions before any others to ensure you do not apply for an unsuitable grant.

If you have any questions with regard to these eligibility criteria, please contact Council's Grants Specialist on (03) 5348 2306 or email grants@hepburn.vic.gov.au

To be eligible for assessment the Applicant / Project must:

• Read and understand the program guidelines 
• Be a new or one-off event or program, or, a new initiative for an existing event or program (excluding Charitable Purposes and New Resident Welcome Session streams).
• Be completed within 12 months of signing the funding agreement.
• Be within the Hepburn Shire to the benefits of its residents.
• Be an organisation that is a legal entity with an Australian Business Number (ABN). For example; an incorporated body, co-op trust, or, be auspiced by a suitable group.*
• Have all permits, permissions and approvals for the project.**
• Be a not-for-profit group.*** Not-for-profit groups who employ paid staff, such as Administrators, Directors, Coaches and/or Players must clearly show a strong financial need for funding and the potential expansion to the organisation their project provides.
• Demonstrate community involvement in its planning and proposed implementation.

* An Auspicing Agent is another organisation that is a legal entity with an ABN. A letter signed by two committee members from the auspice agent confirming they will auspice the application must be provided when the grant application is submitted. Auspicing agents retaining a fee for this service will not be considered.

** If the project is to undertake works on Council owned / managed land or property, Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning, or, Parks Victoria land, you must provide written approval from the relevant land manager.

*** Your organisation meets the requirements of being a not-for-profit by having specific statements in its governing rules; the not-for-profit and / or dissolution clause.