Club grant opportunities

2020 Supplementary Volunteer Grants

$1,000 to $5,000

To strengthen community functioning by increasing participation in volunteering.

Items will only be eligible for funding if they directly support or benefit your club’s volunteers.

At least 40% of your club’s workforce must be volunteers.

Items and activities that support and benefit the organisation’s volunteers, such as: 

• Small equipment items (ie Safety Equipment);
• Transport costs of volunteers with a disability;
• Fuel costs incurred by volunteers;
• Training for volunteers;
• Background screening checks of volunteers;
• Post COVID-19 re-engagement activities for volunteers and;
• Adapting practices to support volunteers’ safety in relation to COVID-19.

20 September 2020

Guidelines

Application Link

Tourism & Events Queensland’s (TEQ) Destination Events Program

$10,000 to $25,000

(with further opportunities for greater event Funding up to $100,000)

To support major regional tourism.

All clubs may apply. Especially if you consider that your major race meeting and complimentary events qualify as a regional tourism event:

• The event must take place wholly within Queensland between May 2021 - May 2022.
• The applicant must be able to demonstrate the historical size of the event in terms of:
  • Audience;
  • Spectator numbers;
  • Participant numbers, and/or;
  • Media profile
• The applicant must be able to demonstrate the event's capacity to grow against the baseline.

Funding up to 25% of your event expenditure budget (up to a set funding limit) in the following areas:

• Marketing costs;
• Strategic plan development;
• Engagement of short-term specialised personnel or;
• Hire of temporary infrastructure

7 October 2020

Guidelines

Application Link

Racing Queensland’s Country Racing Program -Round 3

Undefined

Improving the racing infrastructure of Queensland Thoroughbred Country Racing Clubs.

Funding is limited to Non-TAB Thoroughbred Clubs.

Eligible projects include repairs and maintenance of infrastructure and asset replenishment or replacement.

13 October 2020

Guidelines

Application Link

Foundation for Rural and Regional Renewal’s (FRRR) Tackling Tough Times Together

$20,000 to $150,000

A drought support grant for community-led initiatives that benefit local communities.

Limited to Not-for-profit community-based organisations from communities across rural, regional and remote Australia.

Applications must demonstrate a focus on an activity area from FRRR's Project Activity Evaluation Tree.

We recommend Clubs consider limit their applications to No.2 & No.6 funding streams:

2). Developing organisational resilience and capacity; and

6). Building Economic Strength & Sustainability.

22 October 2020 - for the first 2 tiers of funding ($20k and $60k)

Guidelines

Application Link

Gambling Community Benefit Fund - Round 107

$500 to $35,000

Support Community Groups - Incl. Race Clubs

All Clubs may apply.

There is a 1-round exclusion period, which means your organisation cannot submit a new application for the next funding round until you have heard your previous application was unsuccessful or you have acquitted all expenditure on your successful project.

Clubs that have received more than $15,000 from the GCBF over the past 2 years receive the lowest priority for grant allocation.

The Gambling Community Benefit Committee have implemented funding priorities in the following order, where 1 has the highest priority:

1. Items/facilities directly affected, damaged or destroyed by a declared natural disaster in the last 2 years;
2. Equipment or facility improvements;
3. Buses, cars, caravans, boats, tractors, trailers, large mowers, motorbikes and similar items;
4. Community events, training, workshops, festivals, publications and website development;
5. Organisations that have received more than $15,000 from the GCBF over the past 2 years.

31 October 2020

Guidelines

Application Link