If you are a non-profit community group or club, you can apply for funding to support projects that offer clear community benefit, contributing to social outcomes, community welfare, environmental, health, education, or cultural areas.

Bendigo Bank's social purpose focus sets its agenda for 'feeding into prosperity', from its products and services through to its commitment to creating positive social change.

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

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 
• Have a valid Australian bank account 
• An active ABN 
• Must have a connection with Samford, Pine Rivers, Narangba or surrounding regions. 
• Project must benefit a community group (not an individual member of the community) 
• A willingness to promote Community Bank Samford to your membership/stakeholders (a recommended promotional kit will be provided to successful applicants) 
• A willingness to engage in a long-term relationship with Community Bank Samford

Who is ineligible?

• individuals or unincorporated organisations without an eligible project partner
• for-profit organisations 
• applicant organisations (or partner organisations) with an unsatisfactory result to the Anti Money Laundering / Know Your Customer search. 
• We do not fund retrospectively. 
• Applications will not be accepted from organisations that have not successfully acquitted previous grants

• Phone: 3289 6710
• Email: grants@prcf.com.au