Lotterywest support local and community initiatives. Lotterywest also work with communities and sectors that are developing solutions to help achieve a deeper, wider impact, or that will leave a lasting and significant community legacy.

Grants can be used to support income-generating activities if they are working towards an outcome in the Community Investment Framework and have a clear public benefit. All profits must be directed towards achieving the Community Investment Framework outcome.

There are a few constraints to what we support.

Exclusions

• Projects taking place outside Western Australia
• Retrospective, contingency or on-going operational costs
• Religious activities (although welfare and community service activities of faith-based groups can be funded)
• Competitive sporting activities
• Projects or initiatives that could/should be funded through contractual or individualised Government funding arrangements
• Replacement of assets previously funded with a Lotterywest grant
• From 1 January 2024, applications that do not reflect, or are contrary to, Lotterywest's Good Practice Requirements cannot be supported.

In addition, given Lotterywest's significant annual statutory allocation to the Department of Health and the Department's Future Health Research and Innovation Fund, support for medical and health research and its translation and/or dissemination will not be provided through Lotterywest's direct grants budget.

Grant limits

• The minimum grant request is $3,000
• Maximum $15,000 for organisations not registered for GST or that are unincorporated (unless auspiced by an eligible organisation)
• Otherwise there is no upper grant limit. Grants should be reasonable and represent value for money
• Lotterywest is a complementary grant-maker and expects others will contribute appropriately to the cost of initiatives (financially and/or in kind)
• The GST component of items purchased by the grant is not supported.

Eligibility

You are an eligible organisation if you’re:

• a not-for-profit organisation (i.e. none of the profits go to owners or shareholders); or
• a local government authority.

Smaller not-for-profits may prefer to be auspiced by an eligible organisation. Contact us for more information if you are considering this approach.

Your organisation also needs to:

• be an Australian entity and operating within Western Australia;
• not be operating on behalf of the State or Federal Government;
• have the authority to undertake the proposed grant activities; or
• have an organisational structure that does not allow for the distribution of profit or personal gain during operation and/or in the event of wind up.

• Phone: 133 777
• Email: grants@lotterywest.wa.gov.au
• Website: https://www.lotterywest.wa.gov.au/get-in-touch