Brisbane City Council's Lord Mayor's Community Fund (previously known as the Lord Mayor's Suburban Initiative Fund) supports community projects that build stronger communities in Brisbane.

Projects must contribute to the Brisbane Vision by helping achieve our aspirations to be a:

• friendly and safe
• active and healthy
• clean and green, or
• vibrant and creative city.

The LMCF allocation for each Ward will be published on Council’s website. The program also includes an allocation for the Lord Mayor in support of projects of benefit to multiple wards across Brisbane. The maximum allocation for Councillors is $10,000 per community project.

Examples of eligible community projects include the following.

• Applications for facility improvement projects for schools which are provided to community organisations for access and use, demonstrated through provision of a documented Usage Agreement with a community organisation(s).
• Community events (including Australia Day ceremonies, fetes and events that charge an entry fee, i.e. fundraisers with a cover charge and festivals with a site entry fee).
• Equipment hired for the purpose of a community event.
• Funding towards a community sporting organisation's equipment and activities within the relevant Ward.
• Community facility improvements and equipment.

Applications will close at midnight on Friday 12 June 2026, or when each ward had spent their allocated budget (whichever is sooner).

Community organisations can apply for funding for local projects. Councillors can apply to support community events, activities or capital projects.

Eligible community projects must comply with all of the following:

• Be for a community purpose.
• Meet these guidelines of the LMCF program.
• Identify the community benefit of the funding.
• Identify additional funding support or in-kind support to be provided.
• Contribute towards achieving one or more of the themes of Brisbane Vision 2031 and meet at least one LMCF priority.
• Be implemented within 12 months of the date on the approval letter, unless otherwise agreed in writing by the responsible Councillor.
• Be undertaken within the relevant Ward boundary and be of benefit to the local community (a community project may be considered for funding in another Ward within the Brisbane local government area subject to written approval from that Ward's Councillor).

• Phone: 07 3403 8888
• Website: https://www.brisbane.qld.gov.au/about-council/contact-council