Adelaide Hills Council provides a Community Grants Program to assist local non-profit community groups and organisations to establish and undertake innovative projects or activities that are beneficial to the community and which support Adelaide Hills Council’s Strategic Plan.

Community groups can apply for grants to deliver local initiatives that make a positive contribution to the building of community capacity through:

• Arts and cultural development
• Community well being
• Lifelong learning
• Sport/recreation and active lifestyles
• Environment
• Aboriginal culture and heritage
• Diversity inclusion and accessibility

Community Development Grants are for amounts up to a maximum of $2,500.

Who is eligible to apply?

Applications will be assessed for eligibility against the following criteria.

• applications will only be considered by groups who are resident in the Adelaide Hills or provide a significant benefit to the Adelaide Hills community
• applicants must be (or apply under the auspice of) an incorporated, not for profit community group or voluntary association
• applicants must not have received a Community Development Grant in the previous year’s grant round (groups may only receive grant funding once every two years (biennially)
• applications from religious institutions will not be considered unless there is clear, far reaching community benefit from the project proposed 
• applications will not be considered if the applicant has an outstanding debt owing to Council (excluding community loans were terms and conditions are being met) or an outstanding grant acquittal from a previous funding round 
• applicants must be able to demonstrate financial viability and the capacity to manage and acquit the funding grant if successful

Grant funding will not be provided for:

• commercial or political activities 
• religious activities 
• the employment of staff 
• the production of Business Plans/Feasibility Studies 
• services or costs that are the funding responsibility of either the State or Federal Government
• the reimbursement of funds already spent prior to receiving approval (applicants cannot seek funds retrospectively ) 
• proposals that will lead to a dependence on Council funds (ongoing operational expenses such as Public Liability Insurance) 
• fundraising or general sponsorship 
• improvement to a Council owned asset or which result in work or procurement that should be undertaken as part of Councils ordinary business

• Phone: 08 8408 0515
• Email: jwilhelm@ahc.sa.gov.au