Minor Grants support community organisations to deliver one-off projects, events and activities that align with council’s strategic priorities and demonstrate a community purpose.

Applications for Minor grants can be made under one of the following categories:

• Community Development
• Community Facilities
• Creative Development
• Cultural Heritage
• Economic Development
• Sport and Recreation

Please follow the links for the specific application form. Applicants can submit only one grant application per round.  Applications for the Minor Grants is made on the Major Grants application form.

Funding of up to $2,000 is available. 

Eligibility Criteria

Who can apply?

Not-for-profit community organisations that meet all of the following:

• are a legal entity with not-for-profit status or are registered with the Australian Charities and Not for Profits Commission (ACNC)
• operate within the Sunshine Coast Local Government Area or can demonstrate the project or program will benefit residents of the Sunshine Coast Local Government Area 
• have appropriate insurance and adhere to sound workplace health and safety practices
• are able to demonstrate viability
• have no debt to council, or have entered into scheduled payment arrangements with council, which are being met 
• have met acquittal conditions for previous council grants.

If a community organisation is not a legal not-for-profit entity or recognised by the Australian Taxation Office as a not-for-profit type, the application must be auspiced and administered by such a group.

Who cannot apply?

• Government agencies or departments of local, state or federal government*
• educational, religious or medical organisations, where the application is for the organisation’s core business
• businesses 
• individuals

*note Queensland state school Parent and Citizens’ (P&C) associations are statutory bodies and therefore not eligible.

• Phone: (07) 5420 8616
• Email: grants@sunshinecoast.qld.gov.au