Grants available for your community project
“Remember to check your local Council website for funding opportunities.” Sam Morris
Contemporary Music Fund Short Notice Activity Program
Closes 5 June
This fund offers up to $15,000 to assist homegrown contemporary music artists with projects that enable them to produce and promote their work, along with building links nationally and internationally.
Arts Qld Grants
Various closing dates
Arts Queensland’s funding initiatives work to drive creative employment, and grow new creative work and events that will activate Queensland communities and showcase uniquely Queensland stories.
Community Sustainability Action grants
Closes 11 June
Grants of up to $50,000 (excluding GST) will be provided to support eligible recipients using best practice to conserve and celebrate places entered on the Queensland Government’s Heritage Register that are, or will be, accessible to the local community and tourists.
Our Country Our Future
Apply anytime
Frank Moorhouse Fellowship for Young Writers
Closes 23 June
Up to $10,000 is available to writers aged 18-35 years to develop and write a new work of fiction.
“What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.” Jane Goodall
Manufacturing Energy Efficiency Grant Program
Closes 30 June
Up to $50,000 is for Queensland-based manufacturering businesses to improve energy efficiency measures and technology, reduce energy usage, costs and emissions.
Hamer Sprout Fund
Apply anytime
- Promote innovation in environmental education
- Facilitate engagement in environmental action
- Advocate for environmental sustainability
- Foster collaboration between young people engaged in environmental leadership
Up to $5,000 is available.
National Library of Australia Scholarships Program
Closes 30 June
This scholarships program provides PhD students with the opportunity to undertake research at the Library using their collections. Valued at $10,000.
GRDC Sponsorship – Grower and Advisor Study Tours
Closes 30 June
This program aims to recognise the value in grower, researcher and industry engagement by offering sponsorships for grower and study tours.
Note: At least 50% of the total travel costs should be contributed by participants/tour organiser’s.
Looking after Country Grant Program
Closes 9 July
Open to not-for-profits, businesses and local governments, up to $75,000 is available to First Nations managed organisations to protect and manage the environmental and cultural heritage values of Country.
Wiri Yuwiburra Community Benefits Trust Grants
Apply anytime
This Trust aims to develop, support and promote programs and activities for the benefit of people from the identified communities.
We support:
– Education & Training
– Representative sports
– Cultural heritage and wellbeing
– Business development and research
that encourage individuals to maximise their skills, abilities and potential. We aim to assist social, emotional or economic advancement of our people.
"Grant me the confidence and perseverance of a typo that's made it trough 45 rounds of edits." Dea Poirier
Norman Wettenhall Small Environmental Grant
Apply anytime
Multicultural Events
Closes 13 July
A grants program that provides funding towards multicultural events that engage culturally and linguistically diverse communities, groups and individuals, and the broader community, to partner and contribute to building an inclusive, harmonious and united Queensland.
The Ian Potter Foundation
Ongoing rounds
Support Plantation Establishment Program
Closes 16 July
This program aims to support the establishment of new long-rotation softwood and hardwood plantation forests and assist the sector to respond to the projected growth in demand for domestically sourced timber resources.
Funding starting at $40,000 is available.
Gambling Community Benefit Fund Grant
Closes 18 July + 31 Oct
The fund allocates grants to not-for-profit community groups, to enhance their capacity to provide services, leisure activities and opportunities for Queensland communities.
The July round makes $100,000 available
The Oct round makes $35,000 available
Wildlife Acoustics Scientific Product Grant
Closes 15 August
This quarterly grant program supports the advancement of wildlife research, habitat monitoring, and environmental conservation. Scientists may apply for a product grant to advance the study of bats, birds, amphibians, and other terrestrial wildlife—or a new travel grant to help them attend a conference with their peers.
Grant writing: whittling your mission, goals, history and outcomes into a 250 character paragraph.
Elevate: Boosting diversity in STEM
Closes 1 September
Open to individuals, Elevate aims to address inequities in STEM through comprehensive scholarships enabling more diverse women and non-binary people to access tertiary STEM education, professional skills development and STEM leadership opportunities with industry and academia.
Environmental Grants and Support
Apply anytime
Screen Australia Funding
Various closing dates