COVID-19 Kick Start Grants Now Open
Our first-ever round of grants will see $90,000 being made available to help smaller charities hit hard by COVID-19 to continue their good work.
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Grant applications are now closed.
Check back in October to see our grant recipient announcement!
Eligibility
To be eligible to apply for a Heritage Bank Charitable Foundation Grant, your organisation must:
- Be a non-profit with deductible gift recipient (DGR) status.
- Be able to show evidence of an effective existing program supporting one or more of the following areas:
• Positive educational and alternative pathways to help at-risk children and teenagers;
• Health care services for vulnerable Australians and their families; and
• Support for the economic and social wellbeing of people in regional, rural and remote communities, including in times of natural disasters.
- Operate in one or more of the following geographical regions:
• Darling Downs;
• Brisbane and surrounding areas;
• Gold Coast;
• Sunshine Coast;
• Wide Bay Burnett;
• Lockyer Valley;
• Ipswich;
• Bundaberg;
• Southern Downs;
• Western Downs and/or;
• Western Sydney (Parramatta and The Hills Shire).
If you require further clarification please review the locations of our Heritage Bank branches.
- Have had a significant reduction in fundraising income due to the COVID-19 restrictions.
- Be clearly able to demonstrate the number of people who will be positively impacted by provision of the grant.
- Have an annual income for 2019 (based on their latest audited report) of under $10 million.
- Obtain less than 70% of their annual income from government sources.
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Grant applications are now closed. For information on the criteria being used to assess applications in this round, refer to our COVID-19 Kick-Start Grant Guidelines.
