Infrastructure Grants – Sport and Recreation

Overview

Provides funding to support sport and recreation infrastructure such as sports centres, playgrounds, and swimming pools.

Key Information

  • Status: Open
  • Grant amount: From $50,000 to $300,000
  • Application opened: 1 July 2024
  • Application closes: 22 July 2024
  • Future rounds: 4 November 2024 – 25 November 2024

The objective of the Clubgrants Category 3 Infrastructure Grants program is to fund the costs of construction, alteration, renovation, an completion and fit-out of buildings and community infrastructure to deliver outcomes for disadvantaged NSW communities including regional, remote and drought-affected areas, culturally and linguistically diverse, disability, and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities and disaster-affected communities. This grant is one of four Clubgrants Category 3 Infrastructure Grants administered by the Office of Responsible Gambling.

This program is funded and administered by the Office of Responsible Gambling.

Eligibility

Who can apply:

  • Not-for-profit organisations that will be responsible for operating and/or maintaining the infrastructure.
  • Schools – applicants must consider if and how the infrastructure project is accessible to the public outside school hours.
  • Local councils – applicants are required to cash-match the funding amount requested.

Who can’t apply:

  • Individuals
  • Organisations or businesses that may or will realise a commercial gain from the project.

What kinds of projects will be funded under this stream

You can apply for funding under this stream if your project supports infrastructure such as:

  • Indoor organised sports centre (e.g. indoor cricket, baseketball)
  • Leisure centre (e.g. martial arts dojo, gymnastics centre)
  • Outdoor organised sports facility (e.g. football field, netball courts)
  • Recreation space (e.g. playground, skate-park)
  • Large-scale purpose-built facility (e.g. stadium, velodrome, motorsports facility)
  • Water sports (e.g. swimming pool)

Your project will need to:

  • Be infrastructure that is accessible and available to the public most of the time.

Projects can contribute to, but are not limited to, one or more of the following areas or outcomes: 

Construction, alteration, renovation, completion and fit-out of buildings and community infrastructure in the sports and recreation infrastructure category. 

What you can’t apply for

  • Day to day activities that supplements ongoing service delivery or core business.
  • Existing services or initiatives currently underway.
  • Work undertaken or commenced before funding decisions are made.
  • Projects that provide or produce commercial outputs and benefits.
  • Recurring services and outputs that had been undertaken and or/funded in the past.
  • Projects not undertaken in NSW and/or not benefiting NSW communities and economy.

Example projects

Infrastructure Grants can be used for costs such as construction, the purchase of capital equipment and professional fees. Examples of projects include, but are not limited to, sports centres, playgrounds and swimming pools.

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Application

The RBI Grants directory acts as a resource only. We do not offer assistance with preparing or submitting grant applications. It is the responsibility of the applicants to complete their submissions in accordance with grant requirements.

Starting the application

Applications for this grant are accepted via the Office of Responsible Gambling Grants Portal.

  1. If you are a new applicant, you will need to register before you log in.
  2. You will need to provide your name, email address and create a password.
  3. You can also use an existing Facebook, Twitter or Google account to register.
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