Narrabri Shire Council's Community Financial Assistance Grant supports the delivery of projects and activities that pursue our values of a connected, unique, and culturally rich community.

The Community Financial Assistance Grant is designed to assist our community's development, provide funding for capacity-building events, projects, programs, and activities that benefit the people and the Shire.

The financial support offered through Council's Community Financial Assistance Grant seeks to achieve the following objectives:

• Increase the range of, and access to, recreational, social, cultural, and environmental activities, programs, and services to the people of Narrabri Shire.
• Encourage a sense of community pride that allow communities to promote their towns and villages through promotional activities.
• Reflect the community's priorities and vision
• Provide for the inclusion and participation of all members of the community that enable vulnerable individuals and groups to participate in local activities and opportunities.
• Foster community partnerships and encourage cooperation between community groups, organisations, and Council to ensure that residents and organisations benefit from common resources.
• Promote Narrabri Shire as a vibrant, diverse place to live and visit.

The Community Financial Assistant grant program funding bucket is capped at $27,000 for Round 1, 2025/2026

Eligibility

In order to be eligible for a Community Financial Assistance Grant, applicants must be:

• A registered not-for-profit organisation;
• An incorporated community group;
• An unincorporated community group that meets the criteria in the list below;
• A community group that is affiliated that meets the criteria in the list below;
• A registered sporting club that has a management committee and meets the criterion the list below;
• A school P&C Committee;
• A partnership arrangement between an eligible entity and a non-eligible entity;
• A not-for-profit Childcare Facility; or
• A registered charity.

Unincorporated groups, sporting clubs, or unincorporated affiliated groups must meet all of the below criteria in order to be eligible:

• A formal documented structure that establishes a management committee and governs the way the organisation operates;
• A management committee; and
• A bank account in the name of the group that requires at least two signatories to authorise.

• Phone: (02) 6799 6866
• Email: grantsofficer@narrabri.nsw.gov.au