The City of Sydney is currently accepting applications for the Community Services Grants (Covid-19 Recovery Grants).

This grant supports programs or projects that respond to ongoing community need including food security, digital inclusion, social isolation, tenancy support and homelessness services.

Funding Priorities

The following applications will be prioritised:

• initiatives that build capacity and empower the community to address sustainable food security
• collective impact approaches with multiple organisations partnering to achieve a shared goal
• programs that meet the needs of and are led by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples
• programs that support vulnerable community groups including temporary visa holders, social housing residents and people at risk of or experiencing homelessness.

Outcomes

Initiatives and projects can contribute to one or more of these outcomes:

• increased access to food and essential items
• reducing disadvantage and increasing access to opportunities
• increased participation in community and civic life and local decision making
• increased engagement in healthy, active living including mental health
• increased community capacity to address local needs/opportunities
• strengthened social cohesion, sense of belonging and connection to place.

Funding Information

Funding is available in amounts from $5,000 up to $50,000 cash.

Eligibility Criteria

To be eligible for funding an applicant must operate within the area or be able to demonstrate benefits for the residents, businesses, workers or visitors.

These individuals and organisations can apply:

• not-for-profit organisations including social enterprises
• individuals or unincorporated community groups auspiced by a not-for-profit that is eligible to apply in their own right.

Where multiple organisations are partnering together and making an application, one lead applicant must apply and manage the overall project and any funding awarded.

Applicant eligibility is determined by ABN registration.

For more information, visit City of Sydney.