Below are grants that are currently available to individuals or groups. If you need help filling out the forms, don't hestitate to contact us for some friendly advice.
Value: $50 to $100
Voucher 2 – 2025: Available now
Voucher 1 – 2026: Available now
Vouchers to help families with eligible school-aged children pay for sport, recreational, creative or cultural activities.
For more Information: https://www.service.nsw.gov.au/transaction/apply-for-an-active-and-creative-kids-voucher
Run By: Service NSW
Funding: up to US $1,000 000 (AUD $1,450,00 approx.) for each category
Applications open: 26 January 2026
Applications close: 7:00am AEST (Australian Eastern Standard Time, UTC+10) on 23 June 2026 in NSW, Australia [5pm EST (Eastern Standard Time, UTC-5) 22 June 2026].
The Zayed Sustainability Prize recognises and rewards small and medium enterprises (SMEs), nonprofit organisations (NPOs), and global high schools with impactful, innovative, and inspiring sustainable solutions.
The Zayed Sustainability Prize awards 6 categories; Health, Food, Energy, Water, Climate Action and, Global High Schools.
For more information and to apply Zayad Sustainability Prize
Australia's capacity to respond to disasters relies on emergency management volunteers. Today's volunteer leaders must negotiate a maze of relationships, networks and expectations to lead effectively in the disaster environment. Leadership demands innovation, creativity, negotiation, improvisation and strategic vision.
The Volunteer Leadership Program (VLP) equips volunteers from community organisations, not-for-profits, disaster relief organisations and local government within the emergency management sector, with the skills and confidence to grow as leaders. The VLP experience is immersive and collaborative, bringing together volunteers from different organisations and agencies to build knowledge and share experiences with each other. The program explores practical leadership frameworks through interactive learning, and participants gain both self-awareness and an enhanced ability to understand and contribute to their organisations.
Please direct any questions to events@aidr.org.au.
For more information and to apply Volunteer Leadership Program.
Funding: $1000 - $5000
Applications close: May 2026
Volunteer Grants support the work of local community organisations by reducing barriers for volunteers and increasing participation in volunteering.
The 2025-26 Volunteer Grants program, delivered by the Australian Government through the Department of Social Services, supports community organisations that rely on volunteers by helping remove barriers to participation and promoting volunteering opportunities.
Grants between $1,000 and $5,000 are available to eligible not-for-profit organisations that depend on volunteers to deliver their work.
Volunteer Grants, funded by the Australian Government, provide practical support to strengthen volunteer-led activity in communities across Australia.
The 2025-26 Volunteer Grants will open for expressions of interest through Federal Members of Parliament (MPs).
Organisations should:
Read the Grant Opportunity Guidelines carefully
Contact their local Federal MP - Hon Barnaby Joyce MP Member for New England to understand how to submit an expression of interest.
Organisations nominated by their MP will be invited by the Department of Social Services to complete a formal application in May 2026.
Funding: $10,000 - $20,000
Applications close: 21 May 2026
The annual grant program supports initiatives that will make an impact in your community.
The project supports initiatives that provide sustainable, tangible and long-term benefits with positive outcomes for Australian rural, regional and remote communities. In turn this builds capacity, longevity, liveability and connection in the regions in which we operate.
Based on six distinct pillars, the project offers a total of 12 grants, on, Elders will offer grants up to $20,000.
Each application must align to one of the following pillars;
In addition to the six pillars above, there will be two People's Choice grants, for a maximum of $10,000 each. This open criteria grant will be voted for by Elders employees.
For more information and to apply Elders Community Giving Project
Closes: Ongoing
Primary producers may be able to claim an immediate deduction for capital expenses incurred on fencing and fodder storage assets.
Australian Taxation Office
Closes: Ongoing
Value: Up to $2 Million
Agristarter Loans provide farmers with loans to either assist them in starting their own farming business or to plan for and implement succession arrangements.
Australian Government Regional Investment Corporation
Closes: Ongoing
Provides primary production businesses with tax deductions on farm management deposits to help them deal with inconsistent income from natural disasters, climate and market changes.
Australian Government Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry
Closes: Ongoing
Purves Environmental Foundation grants gifts (funds) to enable and empower others working towards environmental sustainability and preservation of biodiversity.
We aim to:
Current Regular Giving funding focus areas:
Degradation of key biodiversity habitat
We aim to support initiatives that seek to advocate for prevention of destruction of biodiversity habitat through improvement in policies and management, backed by best available science.
Unsustainable management of natural resources
We aim to support key initiatives and organisations that seek to improve policies on environmental management of natural resources, in particular freshwater, by using best available science.
Pollution
We aim to support initiatives that seek to improve policies, regulations, or schemes that mitigate pollution, in particular soft plastics.
For more Information: https://www.purvesenvirofund.org.au
Funding: up to $15,000
Applications close: 5.00pm 31 March 2026
Purpose
Our Essential Grants Program provides financial support to community groups across our network area, contributing to positive outcomes for regional communities.
Overview
The program supports community-based initiatives that align with the following categories:
Last financial year, 2024-2025, we contributed $150,000 in grants to community groups in our network area, with amounts up to $15,000 funded to each successful applicant.
For more information: https://www.essentialenergy.com.au/about-us/community-support/Essential-Grants
Apply Using SmartyGrants: https://www.fundingcentre.com.au/grant/G19953/apply
Small Environmental Grant Scheme
Funding Amount: between $2,000 and $15,000
Expressions of Interest Submissions Due:
Providing support for organisations undertaking projects that will make a positive difference to the natural living environment, in land, sea or air, rural or urban. We support grassroots organisations and individuals, and academics who are working with on-ground community groups.
Submissions Due:
Providing support to people playing a key role in conservation projects. Grants are awarded to individuals for professional development in their field, particularly those involved in grassroots landscape restoration.
Amount: Up to $250,000
For: Business, Individual
Status: Ongoing
Low interest loans of up to $250,000 are available to primary producers in NSW to fund a broad range of products, activities and services aimed at improving drought preparedness and climate variability resilience.
Program objective
The Drought Ready and Resilient Fund (DRRF) will increase the self-reliance, sustainability, and resilience of NSW primary production enterprises to manage drought.
The program is offered to eligible primary production enterprises for eligible activities that support the primary production enterprise to implement their Farm Business Resilience Plan (or equivalent), as detailed in the program guidelines. (PDF 1.93MB)
This program is administered by Rural Assistance Authority.
This program is funded by NSW Treasury.
From $2,000 to $15,000
For: Individual
Status: Ongoing
These grants provide financial assistance for landholders managing conservation agreement areas to improve the biodiversity value of their properties.
Conservation Partners Grants support landholders working to protect and manage biodiversity on their land.
The grants are available on an on-going basis for landholders who are not seeking or are ineligible for conservation management payments under the Biodiversity Conservation Trust’s Conservation Management Program.
Funding
There are four levels of funding available:
Up to $15,000 per year for up to three years for landholders with in-perpetuity conservation agreements, Trust Agreements, Registered Property Agreements.
Up to $8,000 per year for up to three years for landholders with a term Registered Property Agreement.
Up to $2,000 per year for up to three years for landholders with a wildlife refuge or wildlife refuge agreement or who are members of Wildlife Land Trust.
Landholders with Land For Wildlife agreements can apply to the Community Environment Network (CEN) for conservation partners grants of up to $2,000 per year.
The CEN grant can be identified by prefix "LFWBG" in recipient number.
In-perpetuity agreements greater than 1,000 Ha in size may be eligible for up to $30,000/year for up to three years. Investment at this level is at the discretion of the BCT and subject to case-by-case assessment.
Applications will be funded if they are eligible, complete and meet the assessment criteria and if the BCT has available funding.
Contributions from landholders such as labour or co-contributions are encouraged.
This program is funded and administered by NSW Biodiversity Conservation Trust.
Boarding Scholarships for Isolated Students (BSIS) provides financial support for eligible students boarding away from home or residential fees to access education.
Scholarships are available for students in Years 7 to 12 who are disadvantaged by a low family income and geographical isolation.
You can apply for a scholarship on the NSW Education website
Grant amount: Up to $1,000
Status: Ongoing
Program objective
If you are a small business owner in NSW, the $1,000 SafeWork small business rebate can help you purchase eligible safety items to make your workplace safer for you and your workers, including managing or eliminating hazards and risks that may cause serious injury, illness or death at work.
The rebate only applies to safety items on the eligible items list. These items support safety solutions which are high level controls under the hierarchy of control.
Addition of agricultural drones
Agricultural drones (used in a primary producing farming operation with one or more of the following capabilities: spray, spread and/or visual capabilities) have been added as eligible items under the $1,000 SafeWork small business rebate. The Hon. Sophie Cotsis MP, Minister for Industrial Relations, and Minister for Work Health and Safety approved this addition in August 2025.
The addition of agricultural drones to the rebate align with SafeWork NSW’s 2025-2026 regulatory priorities relating to harm prevention associated with mobile plant, vehicles or fixed machinery. This addition will support regional and small farm operations that will benefit from the use of drone technology as a practical and modern safety tool. Visit the SafeWork website or email safetyrebate@safework.nsw.gov.au if you have any questions.
This program is funded and administered by SafeWork NSW.
The required outcome of the Program is that eligible non-profit organisations have restored essential facilities, equipment or other assets damaged or destroyed as a result of a declared natural disaster and/or have been able to source temporary storage or have leased alternate premises if required.
Eligible non-profit organisations impacted by the declared natural disaster can apply to borrow a maximum amount of $25,000. All loans have a term of up to 5 years, depending on the amount borrowed and your repayment capacity.
Funding: up to $10,000
Status: Ongoing
The objective of the program is to provide a concessional interest rate loan to eligible sporting and recreation clubs and associations to assist with the costs associated with clean up, removal of debris and/or the restoration of essential facilities, equipment or other assets that have been damaged or destroyed as a result of the declared natural disaster.
Natural Disaster Relief Loans are only provided to eligible small business operators following the declaration of a natural disaster by the NSW Government.
This program is administered by Rural Assistance Authority.
This program is funded by NSW Treasury.
For more information and to apply, please click here.
If your home or essential household contents were damaged or destroyed by a natural disaster, you may be eligible for the Disaster Relief Grant for individuals.
The financial assistance is provided to help people to recover from the effects of a disaster and re-establish a basic standard of living. It is not provided to replace insurance or compensate for losses.
Funds: based on application for the specific initiative/request.
Maximum amount: N/A
Closes: Ongoing
Run by: IGA
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Our Landcare Coordinators can help develop project ideas, action plan next steps, and source funding!
Tell us your ideas using our Expression of Interest Form
