The Sport and Recreation Recovery Grant is a rolling program that is jointly funded by the Australian Government and Queensland Government under Category D of the Disaster Recovery Funding Arrangements (DRFA).

The grant assists not-for-profit sport and active recreation organisations with the clean-up, repair or replacement of equipment or facilities directly damaged by an eligible disaster event and to re-establish activities.

Eligible organisations can apply for up to a maximum of $1 million (GST exclusive) for each eligible project site subject to funding availability. This may include:

• assessing assets or facilities only where event damage or impact is found
• repairing / restoring damaged sport and active recreation infrastructure damaged by an eligible extraordinary event that directly relates to the re-establishment of sport and recreational facilities (may include the use of more resilient finishes, building techniques and materials where the application demonstrates a value for money outcome).
• rebuilding/replacing infrastructure and/or assets when it has been deemed irreparable or cost prohibitive (by a suitably qualified independent consultant).

Eligible costs must be directly related to the delivery of the approved project and must not have commenced prior to the date of the declared extraordinary disaster event during which the asset or facilities were damaged, namely 8 March 2025.

Eligible local government applicants are those that:

• own or operate community and recreational assets/infrastructure located in a local government area activated for an eligible extraordinary event; and
• can demonstrate the asset has been directly impacted or damaged by the eligible event; and
• the asset is ineligible under DRFA Category B; and
• have limited or no insurance to cover the requested works.

To be eligible organisations must:

• have a registered ABN; and
• be an incorporated not-for-profit sport, active recreation or racing organisation or not-for-profit community organisation (with an objective of sport, active recreation or racing) incorporated under one of the following:
• Associations Incorporation Act 1981 (Qld)
• Corporations Act 2001 (Cwlth)
• Cooperatives National Law Act 2020 (Qld)
• Corporations (Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander) Act 2006 (Cwlth); or
• be a sport or active recreation club incorporated within a Queensland university.

• Phone: 13 74 68
• Email: sr_infrastructure@sport.qld.gov.au