Are you a charity or community group with a project in the areas of health and wellbeing, community safety, environment or education? If you are looking for funding to complete a project or have a project in mind that you can’t achieve without assistance, we’re here to help.
Aurizon Community Giving Fund applications are now open, offering cash grants of up to $20,000 to eligible charities in communities we work and live in.
Community Giving Fund Eligibility
Please view the Guidelines and Terms and Conditions. There is also a list of Frequently Asked Questions below and a guide on Tips for Writing Grant Applications which may be helpful to your charity when writing your grant application.
- Non-profit organisations that hold an approved deductible gift recipient (DGR) status charity (Item 1) from the Australian Tax Office. If you are unsure of your organisation’s tax status, check with your financial advisor and the Australian Government’s ABN Lookup website.
- The Aurizon Community Giving Fund is focused on the broad areas of health and wellbeing, community safety, the environment and education. All applications for an Aurizon Community Giving Fund grant must fit within at least one of these funding categories to be eligible for consideration.
- Cash grants are only available for projects that affect the immediate areas in which Aurizon operates. View our areas of operation on the map below.
Aurizon is a national organisation with concentrated operations within the following areas:
• North Queensland
• Central Queensland
• South East Queensland
• South West Queensland
• Newcastle, Hunter Valley
• Wollongong, Illawarra
• WA, Perth
• WA, Geraldton
• WA, Kalgoorlie
• WA, Esperance
• WA, South West
• NT, Darwin
• NT, Tennant Creek
• NT, Katherine
• NT, Alice Springs
• SA, Adelaide
• SA, Port Augusta
• SA, Whyalla
• SA, Ceduna
Grants will only be available for not-for-profits projects that affect the immediate areas in which Aurizon operates although the administrative centre of the applying organisation may be located outside of the stated areas of operation. A more detailed map of locations can be found on ourwebsite at www.aurizon.com.au/community
