2024 Coopers Gap Wind Farm - Community Fund (CEF)

Submissions closed at midnight 10 September 2024 (AEST).

IMPORTANT: Please read information below to assist you in completing your application online.

Welcome to the Coopers Gap Wind Farm Community Fund online grant application service, powered by SmartyGrants.

The aim of the Coopers Gap Wind Farm Community Fund is to support small, Charitable and Not-for-profit organisations that offer broad, long-term benefit to the community. The key focus of the fund is to support initiatives that benefit:

  • Education
  • Youth
  • Environment
  • Health, safety and wellbeing
  • Community infrastructure
  • Arts and culture
  • Economic development
  • Social welfare

The Community Enhancement Fund is designed to support the community within 25kms of the Coopers Gap Wind Farm with a focus on the communities of Bell, Jandowae and Kumbia.

PROGRAM ELIGIBILITY

To be an eligible applicant to the Coopers Gap Wind Farm – Community Fund you are required to meet the following requirements.

Applicant Eligibility:

  • You must be an incorporated or 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
  • Have no conflicts of interest between your organisation and Tilt Renewables (or can be managed).

Project Eligibility:

To ensure your project is eligible, it must demonstrate the following; (project could refer to event, program, initiative, purchasing of equipment etc).

  • Charitable in nature
  • Broad based community benefit

Project Location:

  • To ensure your project is eligible, it must support the community within 25km of the Coopers Gap Wind Farm with a focus on the communities of Bell, Jandowae and Kumbia. Please view eligibility map here before applying.

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.

Project Outcomes:

Preference will be given to projects that not only contribute to one or more of the programs key focus areas (as outlined in program purpose), but that can also demonstrate the following;

  1. A clearly articulated impact on the community which can be measured and reported on.
  2. Enhance local cooperation and collaboration and involve multiple partners.
  3. Create sustainability which is capable of having long term benefits to the community.
  4. Are being managed by an organisation with a strong track record in delivering projects of a similar value and scale.

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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