Grants

The Australian Government’s Stronger Communities Programme Round 10 provides funding for small capital and community infrastructure projects that deliver local social benefits.

Key Highlights:

• Grant Amount: $2,500 to $20,000 per project (from a total pool of $150,000 allocated to each of Australia’s 150 Federal electorates).
• Funding Coverage: Grants cover up to 100% of eligible project costs for most applicants (local governing bodies require 50% matched funding).
• Who Can Apply: Incorporated not-for-profits, non-distributing co-operatives, Australian Indigenous corporations, religious bodies. Please see the grant opportunities guidelines for detailed information.
• Application Requirement: Applicants must submit an expression of interest and be invited to apply by their local Federal Member of Parliament (MP).

Register Expression of interest

The Australian Government is investing up to $41.6 million to support multicultural communities with facilities to promote connection.

Batch one of grants is open for applications until 18 May 2026.

Batch two of grants is open for applications from 18 May 2026 until 12 November 2026.

You can use this grant funding to construct, upgrade or extend infrastructure that demonstrates benefits to multicultural communities. This may include:

• community hubs and centres
• museums, libraries and art spaces
• indoor and outdoor amenities, including food preparation areas, dining spaces, bathrooms and barbecue facilities
• meeting and conference facilities
• stages, auditoriums and spaces to encourage performing arts
• spaces for sporting and physical activities.​​

Here you can identify individual Grant Opportunities which may be of interest.

The Multicultural NSW Stronger Together Grants Program aims to support multicultural festivals and events across NSW. We invest in community events and activities that foster community harmony and celebrate cultural diversity as a precious part of our identity and way of life.

The Stronger Together Festival and Event Grants Program will support multicultural and multifaith community groups to produce Festivals and Events that celebrate and embrace our state’s vibrant cultural diversity. Grants range from $5,000 to a maximum of $20,000.

Applications for Festivals and Events to be held between 1 September 2025 – March 2026.

Create NSW funding opportunities for professional artists, arts and cultural workers and organisations across a wide range of artforms and disciplines.

The new streamlined ACFP has 4 funding programs:

• Multi-year Funding
• Regional Arts Touring
• Project Funding
• National Partnerships.

Five new Arts and Cultural Funding Program – Project and Multi-year funding rounds is currently open.

The uPPP seeks to support transformative investment in urban precincts based on the principles of unifying urban places, growing economies and serving communities.

The uPPP is an always open, non-competitive funding opportunity, supporting both precinct development proposals and the delivery of construction-ready precinct projects.

• Stream One: Precinct development and planning
  • Project funding of between $500,000 to $5 million will be available for master planning, consultation, design, business cases and partnership establishment.
• Stream Two: Precinct delivery
  • Project funding of $5 million to $50 million will be available to help deliver a specified project or projects as part of a precinct. This could include enabling public infrastructure (roads, pathways, underground infrastructure), open spaces between elements, or a particular building/s that is the catalyst for, or complements, other investment within a precinct.

The Roads to Recovery (RTR) Program supports the construction and maintenance of the nation’s local road infrastructure assets, which facilitates greater accessibility and improves safety, economic and social outcomes for Australians.

Funding under the RTR Program is available to all local government areas in Australia, for projects delivered through councils, and state and territory governments in unincorporated areas, under the National Land Transport Act 2014.

$4.4 billion will be available over the five years from 2024-25 to 2028-29 under the RTR Program. From 2027-28 RTR Program funding will reach $1 billion per year and remain at that level under this ongoing program.

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