Community Grants 2024 

This round will open at 1 October 2024 for submissions. Applications will close at 5pm on 6 November 2024

Welcome to the Kaban Green Power Hub Community Grants Program online grant application service, powered by SmartyGrants. This Community Grants Program is administered by Community Enterprise Foundation™ and made possible by the generous support of Neoen's Kaban Green Power Hub.

PROGRAM ELIGIBILITY

To be an eligible applicant to the Kaban Green Power Hub Community Benefit Fund – you are required to meet the following requirements.

Applicant Eligibility:

• You must be a charitable and not-for-profit organisation with a valid ABN.
• 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

Project Eligibility:

To ensure your project is eligible is must be charitable in nature and offer clear broad-based community benefit. The key focus of the fund is to support initiatives that contribute to the development of one of the following community growth areas:

• Arts, Culture & Events
• Energy Efficiency & Environment
• Disaster Relief & Emergency Services
• Education & Training (Focus on Women & Girls in STEM )
• First Nations
• Health & Wellbeing

Project Location:

• This Community Benefit Fund will support local programs and projects in the towns of Kaban, Tumoulin, Ravenshoe, and Millstream along with communities who are living close to the Kaban Green Power Hub wind farm project.

Project Supporting Documentation:

Financials

• Current signed Audited Financial Statements: for the Applicant Organisation and any Project Partner/s.
• If your organisation is not required to audit your financials, please provide a profit and loss statement as a minimum and a balance sheet if available. Please also include a current bank statement.   

Project Budget

• Please ensure that your budget and/or supporting documentation clearly shows how the funds requested will be spent.
• Do not forget to include your contribution to the project and any in-kind support.

 Quotes

• Quotes are required for all budget items over $5,000.
• If you have conducted this project/program before, include copies of invoices / receipts that substantiate this request.

APPLICANT QUERIES

For queries about the guidelines, deadlines, or questions in the form, please contact the Community Enterprise Foundation on 1300 304 541 during business hours or email foundation.mailbox@bendigoadelaide.com.au and quote your submission number.

If you need more help using this form, download the Help Guide for Applicants or check out Applicant Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ's)

NAVIGATING (MOVING THROUGH) THE APPLICATION FORM

On every screen (page of the form) you will find a Form Navigation contents box, this links directly to every page of the application. Click the link to jump directly to the page you want.

You can also click 'next page' or 'previous page' on the top or bottom of each page to move forward or backward through the application.

SAVING YOUR DRAFT APPLICATION

If you wish to leave a partially completed application, press 'save and close' and log out. When you log back in and click on the 'My Submissions' link at the top of the screen, you will find a list of any applications you have started or submitted. You can reopen your draft application and start where you left off.

You can also download any application, whether draft or completed, as a PDF. Click on the 'Download PDF' button located at the bottom of the last page of the application form.

SUBMITTING YOUR APPLICATION

You will find a Review and Submit button at the bottom of the Navigation Panel. You need to review your application before you can submit it.

Once you have reviewed your application you can submit it by clicking on 'Submit' at the top or bottom of the screen or on the navigation panel. You will not be able to submit your application until all the compulsory questions are completed and there are no validation errors.

Once you have submitted your application, no further editing or uploading of support materials is possible.

When you submit your application, you will receive a confirmation email with a copy of your submitted application attached. This will be sent to the email you used to register.

If you do not receive a confirmation of submission email then you should presume that your submission has NOT been submitted.

Hint: also check the email hasn't landed in your spam or junk email folder.

ATTACHMENTS AND SUPPORT DOCUMENTS

You may need to upload/submit attachments to support your application. This is very simple, but requires you to have the documents saved on your computer, or on a storage device.

You need to allow enough time for each file to upload before trying to attach another file. Files can be up to 25MB each; however, we do recommend trying to keep files to a maximum of 5MB – the larger the file, the longer the upload time.

COMPLETING AN APPLICATION IN A GROUP/TEAM

A number of people can work on an application using the same log in details as long as only one person is working at a time. Ensure you save as you go.

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