Community Grants

Important notice

All Community Grant applications need to align to the priorities within either of the following plans:

• Greater Bendigo Council Plan (Mir Wimbul) 2021-2025 
• Healthy Greater Bendigo 2021-2025

Community Grants for your sporting club

The City of Greater Bendigo Community Grants are available to sporting clubs to support them to do great things for their local communities.  The link below gives a few examples of how local sporting clubs have utilised the City’s Community Grant programs to develop innovative projects to support their clubs and members.  

Reactivating Community Sport

Guide to Grant Opportunities for Sporting Clubs

Open grants

Large grants – up $25,000 

• The Large Grant Program for 2022/2023 will open 9am Monday 11 July and close 2pm Monday 8 August.

• For more information about the grant criteria or for the application form please email [email protected] or call 1300 002 642.

Community Christmas Meal Events 2022

• The Community Christmas Meal Events for 2022 will open 9am Monday 11 July and close 2pm Monday 8 August.

• For more information about the grant criteria or to the application form please email [email protected] or call 1300 002 642.

Medium grants - up to $10,000

• Round 1 of the Medium Grant Program for 2022/2023 is now open and will close at 2pm August 1 2022.
• Apply for a Medium Community grant
• Enquiries [email protected]

Community Group Essentials grants - up to $3,000

• Round now open
• Please see important notice above before applying.
• Apply for a Community Group Essentials grant
• Can apply at any time
• Enquiries [email protected]

Small grants - up to $3,000

• Round now open
• Please see important notice above before applying.
• Apply for a Small Grant
• Can apply at any time
• Enquiries [email protected]
   

Town Hall Community Use Subsidy Program

• Round now open
• Please see important notice above before applying.
• Apply for a Community Use subsidy
• Can apply at any time, but has to be six months prior to event
• Enquiries [email protected]

Closed grants

Great Ideas grants

• Under review 

Preparing your application

Online tutorial

This short online tutorial assists groups and organisations who are considering applying for a City community grant. The tutorial contains information on how to address grant criteria and clearly articulate your project (the what, why, how and who), information on eligibility, and general grant writing tips and information.

View the City's online grant writing tutorial.

Resources to assist with grant applications:

• Community Grants – Guidelines - 2018-2021
• Applying for a Community Grant Tutorial
• Successful Grant Application Tutorial
• Great Ideas Grant - Guide 
• Event Management Plan
• Community Grants Budget Template
• Greater Bendigo Council Plan
• Healthy Greater Bendigo
• Active Living Census

Evaluating your project

If you are a recipient of a grant you are required to submit a project evaluation within 60 days of the completion of your project. Go to the Community Grants Project Evaluation Form.

Community Grants Policy and Program Review

The City of Greater Bendigo's Community Granting Policy (2018) and Program is undergoing a review to help shape the program for the future.   The community engagement period for this review is now complete, and the City extends it appreciation to everyone who participated.  The feedback and learnings from the engagement period are now being analysed, and the outcomes of the review will inform the development of a new draft policy. The City is planning on asking the community for feedback on the draft community grants policy towards the end of this year.