Open Call: Venue Support Grant Program (Australia)

Categories

• The City offers two categories of Venue Support Grants:
  • Parks, Public Places and Thoroughfares; and
  • Community Venues;

Funding Information

• Community Venues: up to $2,500 ex GST in-kind support.
• Parks, Public Places and Thoroughfares: up to $7,500 ex GST in-kind support.

Outcomes

• Visitation: Free to participate activities that aim to attract visitation to the city and encourage people to increase dwell time in city neighbourhoods.
• Engaging A Diverse Community: Activities that celebrate the diversity of Perth and promote inclusion, social wellbeing, education and increased cultural participation.
• Economic Growth: Activities that support the local economy through engagement with businesses or key industry sectors in the City of Perth

Eligibility Criteria 

• All applications for Venue Support Grants with the City of Perth must meet the following eligibility criteria:
  • be a legally constituted entity or individual with an Australian Business Number (ABN);
  • have appropriate insurances and licenses where required, as outlined under the City’s Activity Approvals, venue, or other relevant policies and procedures;
  • have booked, or submitted an application to book, a City of Perth venue listed within this document and obtained a cost estimate for the booking;
  • have submitted the application prior to the project commencement date with sufficient time to enable consideration by the City; and
  • demonstrate financial viability without the City’s support (an individual event or project may not be viable without the City’s support, however the organisation must be).
• The City will not consider applications from:
  • the Commonwealth or State Government Departments;
  • a political party;
  • an applicant that the City of Perth considers supports, promotes or facilitates violence, intolerance or discrimination;
  • an employee or elected member of the City of Perth, or their immediate family members, however this does not include an application from an organisation that an employee, elected member or their immediate family member may be part of;
  • an applicant that has outstanding debts to the City of Perth;
  • an applicant who is in legal conflict with the City of Perth;
  • an applicant that has failed to provide satisfactory acquittal reporting for any previous City of Perth funding;
  • an applicant that has already received City of Perth funding (including in-kind) for the same project within the same financial year;
  • an applicant that has already applied for City of Perth funding (including in-kind) for the same project within the same financial year and been refused; or
  • an applicant that conducts themselves in a way the City of Perth considers to be injurious or prejudicial to the character or interests of the City.

For more information, visit City of Perth.