Community Action – the Tasmanian Community Fund will be seeking Community Action Grant applications for projects requesting $5 000 to $50 000 that improve wellbeing, increase workforce engagement, increase leadership capacity and improve community infrastructure.
The timeline for applications in the 2022 Community Action Grants is:
Applications open at 8am on Saturday, 30 April 2022. Applications close at 5pm on Wednesday, 15 June 2022.
Applicants are encouraged to discuss their project with Tasmanian Community Fund staff (phone 6165 8333 or email admin@tascomfund.org) before submitting their application.
Eligibility
To be eligible to apply, organisations must be:
• not for profit*;
• incorporated, or be a not-for-profit legal entity, or sponsored by an incorporated
organisation or a not-for-profit legal entity; and
• based in Tasmania, or proposing to undertake a project in Tasmania
*Eligible, not for profit organisations include Councils and State Government Departments
Funding exclusions:
• organisations with overdue reporting obligations for TCF projects;
• projects that will be predominantly undertaken outside of Tasmania;
• projects where funding is more suitably sourced from another organisation;
• projects which produce a private benefit to a specific business or person(s);
• projects that replicate services or programs that already exist within the community of interest;
• retrospective funding ie for costs already incurred before a grant deed is signed;
• ongoing operational costs;
• construction or refurbishment of areas that will be leased or sub-leased to individuals or
businesses for a commercial gain;
• prizes or gifts;
• purchase of property;
• scholarships;
• items or services that the applicant is contracted to provide;
• insufficiently defined items, eg contingency, sundry and miscellaneous items;
• strategic, business or communication plans or feasibility studies or any other study that does
not result in a direct outcome to the community;
• publication of books/other products to celebrate an anniversary of an organisation;
• loans or sponsorship; or
• where it is apparent that the applicant is becoming dependent on TCF funding.
Each round, the Fund receives more applications than it has the capacity to support. Therefore,
some worthwhile projects may not be funded, or may be offered partial funding.
