Proactive grants are designed to empower you to set up services and respond to changing community needs.

Up to $25,000 to get set up to serve identified community needs, including minor capital purchases.

This type of grant allows for the purchase of minor capital items - that's anything that lasts longer than a year and costs under $5,000. If you have a project that includes some larger, long-lasting purchases that enable you to deliver accessible services to the community, tell us about it through an Expression of Interest (EOI.)

Your EOI will need to highlight how your project will:

1. maximise community benefit
2. address real issues
3. most meaningfully impact Swan residents.

If your EOI fits the above priorities and indicates that you're capable of delivering on your ideas, then we will ask you to complete a full application. It will take around 21 days from EOI submission for us to confirm whether we'd like you to progress to a full application.

Full applications will be assessed around 8 weeks from the date you submit. If your full application is successful, funding will be subject to adoption of the 26/27 budget and will be paid after July 1, 2026.

Payment can take City teams up to 30 days to process from the date of invoicing, so funds for successful applications may not be paid until July 30th at the earliest, depending on the date you return a signed Agreement and invoice.

• Phone: 08 9207 8693
• Email: communitygrants@swan.wa.gov.au