Community Facility Funding program
The Community Facility Funding program contributes to the provision of high quality and accessible community sport and recreation facilities across Victoria.
The specific objectives of this program are:
- to encourage a planned approach to the development of sport and recreation facilities
- to encourage innovation in sport and recreation facility provision
- to support high quality, accessible, inclusive and robust sport and recreation environments at the community level
- to support environmentally sustainable designs and initiatives
- to increase and broaden community access to leisure participation opportunities
- to strengthen communities through sport and recreation participation
Grant categories
The Community Facility Funding program groups grants into two areas: Planning and Building Community Infrastructure. Planning grants allow communities to plan for community sport and recreation provision through better information, consultation and strategic planning. Applications may focus on recreation planning or facility feasibility studies.
Building Community Infrastructure makes grants available to improve places where communities meet and interact. Applications may focus on building or upgrading community sport and recreation facilities under the following sub categories:
- Minor Facilities - projects with total costs of up to $250,000 (GST exclusive)
- Major Facilities - projects with a total cost of over $250,000 (GST exclusive)
- Aquatic Access/Better Pools - new aquatic centres or extensions of aquatic leisure components in current centres
- Seasonal Pool Renewal - rejuvenating seasonal swimming pools in small communities in rural and regional Victoria, and in the interface councils that can demonstrate significant isolation from an aquatic centre open all year round.
Who can apply
Funding under this program is provided through local government authorities. Community organisations have the opportunity to access funds from the Minor Facilities category by applying directly to their local council.
How to apply
Please refer to Grants@DPCD for community organisation and council application forms, supporting documents and further information on how to apply.
The following government websites provide additional information regarding environmentally sustainable design features:
Funded Project Information is also available for those who have received funding.
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