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.

This community grants program is administered by Community Bank Gisborne & District.

Local impact areas:

1 Community Connection and Good Health

• We love what’s fun, keeps us active, creative, engaged, feeling like we belong, friendships, community services, and volunteerism.
• We recognise that mental health and suicide prevention are forefront issues for our community along with access to affordable services for all, when and where they need them

2. People, Capacity and Resource Building

• We champion our community organisations and their members and seek to help them with what they need to grow, be diverse and inclusive, and provide access for all.
• We know that practical assistance through equipment, training, and assets is fundamental to enabling services to grow, expand, and reach more people.
• We invest in our local people so they can build strong and purposeful careers and develop financial well-being and futures for their families and those they care for.

3. Climate, Environment and Energy

• We care deeply for our local environment, plants, and animals and support efforts toward a low-carbon future

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 ideally:

• be a resident of Gisborne or the Macedon Ranges
• 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
• actively bank at Community Bank Gisborne & District, or be willing to do so (schools and select government and large community support organisations exempt)
• For sporting and cultural grants:
  • be amateur competitors.
• be a member of a Club or Organisation that will submit the application in conjunction with the applicant/s.
• Political and religious organisations are requested to contact mrcepublicrelations@gmail.com to confirm their eligibility prior to applying.

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.

• Phone: 0491 331 49
• Email: communityengagement@mrce.com.au