Community Facility grants: Minor Facilities
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The Victorian Government's Community Facility Funding program helps build high quality and accessible community sport and recreation facilities across Victoria.
The program has grants to improve places where communities meet and interact. The program is run by the Department of Planning and Community Development.
Community groups that work in partnership with Moreland City Council can apply to develop or upgrade community sport and recreation facilities.
Discuss your project idea with Council before contacting Council's Sport and Recreation Development Officer on 9240 2266 or email Council.
Eligibility for community organisations
Only local councils are eligible to apply directly to the Department of Planning and Community Development for funding for this program.
Community organisations have the opportunity to get funding if you submit your application directly to Moreland City Council's Leisure Services and not to the Department of Planning and Community Development.
Guidelines and application forms
The Department of Planning and Community Development website has the guidelines, information sheets and application forms.
Funding range of grant
Maximum grant of $60,000 towards projects with a total cost of $200,000 or less (exclusive of GST).
Application process
Step one: discuss your idea with Council
Applicants are strongly encouraged to discuss project ideas with Council's Leisure Services Unit before completing the Application Form for Community Organisations.
Your organisation and Council will look into:
- suitability of the proposed project scope and works
- relationship to Council's forward planning and future priorities
- total budget and the availability and sources of any matching funding contributions by the organisation, and
- the process for submitting the application.
To discuss your project idea contact Council's Sport and Recreation Development Officer on 9240 2266 or email Council.
Step two: complete the application and submit it to Council
When a project idea is developed, complete an Application Form for Community Organisations and submit it to Moreland City Council's Leisure Services – not to the Department of Planning and Community Development.
Check the application checklist to see if you have all supporting documents.
Please note that sporting organisations with outstanding debts to Council will not have their applications considered.
Step three: wait for Council's assessment
- Council receives applications from community organisations in Moreland.
- Council assesses the project proposals. We endorse the three projects that best meet the assessment criteria.
- Council writes a full application for each of the three projects to make sure the project is in a strong position to be considered for funding.
- Council submits the applications to the Department of Planning and Community Development for consideration in September 2009.
Types of projects that are funded
Minor Facilities funding will support sport and recreation projects such as:
- change facilities for junior or female use
- shared paths and tracks
- sports surface development
- projects for young people and families, such as playgrounds and skate parks or BMX tracks
- program and meeting space, and
- provision of disability access.
Types of projects that are not funded
Minor Facilities funding will not support:
- Requests for retrospective funding, where projects have commenced or are completed prior to receiving funding approval
- The purchase of land
- Projects that require ongoing funding or support other than the initial grant
- Routine or cyclical maintenance works to existing facilities
- Facilities where little or no public access is available
- Direct funding of clubs/organisations that do not have a legal status such as being incorporated
- Applications where the recipient organisation/s receive revenue from electronic gaming machines
- Areas designated for gaming machine operations within a proposed facility
- In general, areas designated as licensed areas within a proposed facility
- Repair of facilities damaged by vandalism, fi re or other natural disasters where the act should be covered by insurance
- Requests for ongoing operational costs such as, but not limited to, salary subsidies, electricity, water and other utilities
- The purchase of recreation, entertainment, sporting, maintenance or any other equipment
- Community transport or any other type of vehicle
- Organisations that have failed to complete any previous projects funded by Sport and Recreation Victoria or by the Community Support Fund without demonstrating suffi cient cause
- Upgrading or redeveloping kitchen facilities or toilet facilities.
