Your community and not-for-profit organisation can apply for funding to support projects that offer clear community benefit, contributing to social outcomes, community welfare, environmental, health, education, or cultural areas.

Projects may demonstrate outcomes in:

• Animal welfare
• Choice and empowerment
• Community resilience
• Digital
• Disaster recovery
• Environmental
• Financial
• Health
• Housing
• Learning, skills and development
• Safety
• Social cohesion.

The objectives of the grants program are to:

• Access to business opportunities through your audience. 
• Brand awareness/recognition. 
• Communication of our key Community Bank message: "Banking is our business. Community is our purpose 
• Your banking can make a real difference"
• Community banking is based on a 'profit-with-purpose' model, which means profits are reinvested back into the community that has generated them.
• Support the growth of a resilient, sustainable, and thriving Heywood and District community.

You must:

• be an incorporated community or not-for-profit organisation
• have a project partner if you are not an incorporated organisation. A project partner is an incorporated community or not-for profit organisation that is willing to enter into the funding agreement on your behalf and help you to deliver the project.
• Preference is given to current Community Bank Heywood & District customers, or organisations willing to become a Community Bank Heywood & District Bank customer. Grant funds will only be deposited to an account held in your organisations name.
• Initiatives must be located in and around Heywood and District and must deliver clear business outcomes for Community Bank Heywood & District.

• Phone: 03 5527 1080
• Email: secretaryhdce@gmail.com