The Brisbane City Council has launched the Cultivating Community Gardens Grants to provide funding to local non-profit community-based groups and organisations to establish, develop and/or maintain community gardens on Council-owned and other land.
Aims
In line with Brisbane Vision aspirations to be a clean, green and sustainable city, these grants aim to improve Brisbane’s sustainability by assisting:
Brisbane’s community garden groups to undertake activities that establish, further develop and/or maintain the community garden site
in administering the community garden and its volunteers
in providing opportunities for education, skills development and group development for the members of the community garden group
in providing opportunities for wider community garden groups to undertake events, publicity and programs that increase community involvement and education about the gardens and their activities
in developing community partnerships and networks.
Funding Information
Funding amounts range from $1000 to $2500.
What can be funded?
The Cultivating Community Gardens Grants can be used to fund new or existing community garden projects for:
tools, materials and equipment that are directly used in completing the project (note: materials such as timbers or sleepers must not be treated with chromated copper arsenate)
services relating to the establishment/maintenance of the garden
facilities and structures that are essential to the functioning of the garden
education and awareness designed to develop skills of group members
publicity and programs that increase wider community involvement and education about the gardens and their activities
operating or administration expenses associated with the development, implementation and completion of the project
materials and plumbing costs to construct a small scale raingarden; raised garden beds which use plants and free draining soils to capture, filter and treat pollutants typically found in stormwater
Eligibility Criteria
The applicant organisation must be a non-profit community based organisation that is incorporated, or be auspiced by a non-profit incorporated body that is able to accept legal and financial responsibility for the project and its activities.
Grants will only be available to organisations and projects within the City of Brisbane local government area.
Applicants (and their auspice) must not have outstanding debts or overdue, unacquitted grants with Council.
The project must be of benefit to the broader community and be conducted on land accessible to the broader community.
For schools to be eligible for the Cultivating Community Gardens Grants the community garden must:
be accessible to the broader community
have broader community participation
have food gardens linked to curriculum outcomes.
Community gardens must be prepared to register on the Council community gardens webpage, indicating their openness for involvement of the wider community in their garden.
The project must have written approval from the land owner or the Regional Council Co-ordinator (land manager representative) if on Council land. Please include a signed letter of approval with your application.
Ineligible
The following will not be funded:
projects that are the responsibility of the Australian or State governments, with the exception of schools that meet the objectives outlined in Eligibility criteria
project related activities that have commenced prior to the payment of the grant
applications that require ongoing funding, unless the source of the ongoing funding is assured
projects located on creek banks, footpaths or road reserves
staff project costs
european bee hives
timbers treated with Copper Chromated Arsenate (CCA).
