2025-26 Volunteer Grants are now open!
The 2025-26 Volunteer Grants provide funding of between $1,000 and $5,000 for local community organisations to support the work of volunteers.
The funds can be used under one or more of the following categories:
- Category 1: Purchase communication and IT items (such as mobile phones, laptops, payment devices, electronic audio & visual equipment and software packages), pay phone bills, internet services and insurance premiums.
- Category 2(A): Purchase items to support volunteers from the following groups:
- Adults supporting children’s development and wellbeing
- Children (under 18)
- First Nations People
- Newly arrived migrants (within the past five years, non-citizens)
- People with disability (as defined by the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities)
- Unemployed people volunteering to improve employment readiness
- Veterans and Australian Defence Force members
- Women experiencing or at risk of gender-based violence or isolation
- Category 2(B): Fund volunteer-run activities with the main purpose of supporting the groups listed in Category 2(A) or eliminating racial discrimination and promoting social cohesion.
More information on the eligibility criteria can be found in the Grant Opportunity Guidelines.
Expression of Interests (EOI) close at 5.00pm on Tuesday 31 March 2026.
Email completed EOI’s to: [email protected]
If you have any questions, please contact my office on 4983 2401.
Expression of Interest forms can be downloaded by clicking the button below.
