The Urgent Grant provides one-off funding to support not-for-profit community groups responding unforeseen or urgent circumstances that impact service delivery or an immediate community need.

Funded activities must arise from unforeseen or urgent situations, be essential, time-critical, and deliver a clear and immediate community benefit.

Your proposal must meet one of the following funding objectives:

• Critical support for essential community services - Support organisations to keep essential community services running when unexpected events disrupt normal operations. Funding may support organisations facing a sudden, urgent issue that puts their service delivery at risk, and needs immediate, short-term action to continue or restore services after an unexpected disruption.
• Community-led responses to emerging crises - Activities that focus on supporting fast, locally driven action in response to a specific new crisis or disruptive event affecting vulnerable or disadvantaged residents.

This objective is not intended for ongoing or long standing service needs.

For an application to be eligible, the applicant must be:

• A not-for-profit organisation, as classified by the Australian Tax Office in the Income Tax Assessment Act (1936), and either:
  • Incorporated under the Associations Incorporation Act; OR 
  • Enacted under legislative provisions for charitable purposes; OR 
  • Supported (auspiced) by another incorporated not-for-profit organisation that will assume legal and financial responsibility for the grant.
• Be physically located within Frankston City;
  • OR if located outside of Frankston City, the proposed activity must be serving a significant number (over 1000) of Frankston City residents.
• Have complied with all terms and conditions including the submission of satisfactory acquittal reports for all previous Council grants.

• Phone: (03) 9784 1035
• Email: communitygrants@frankston.vic.gov.au