Funding of up to $5,000 available to promote Gender Equality in Australia

Gender inequality affects the whole community, including women, men, and members of the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, Intersex and Asexual (LGBTQI+) communities. Funding is available to eligible individuals, organisations or community groups for a project, service or activity that promotes gender equality in the Northern Territory.

Focus Areas

• Community Engagement: seeks to improve Territorians understanding about gender, gender diversity, and the drivers of gendered violence and gender inequality.
• Health and Wellbeing: recognises that sex and gender are powerful social determinants of health and wellbeing.
• Safety: seeks to ensure that all Territorians are safe, respected and able to live free from violence.
• Economic Security: targets gender inequality in the areas of education, employment and financial resilience and literacy across the life course.
• Leadership and Participation: seeks to ensure Territorians can influence the decisions that impact them.

Funding Information

• Grants of up to $5000 are available for eligible community groups, organisations and individuals.

Eligibility Criteria

• Funding is available to individuals and organisations.
  • To be eligible for funding an individual must:
    • have met acquittal requirements for all previous funding (this grant) and complied with all other accountability requirements.
    • have met acquittal requirements for previous grants from this department and complied with all other accountability requirements.
    • have met acquittal requirements for all previous Northern Territory Government grants and complied with all other accountability requirements.
    • have adequately demonstrated that the grant will not duplicate funding already provided under this or other Northern Territory Government funding sources.
    • reside in the NT for the duration of funded activity.
  • To be eligible for funding an organisation must:
    • be physically located and actively operating in the NT. If your organisation is physically located and actively operating outside of the NT you must partner with an NT organisation.
    • have met acquittal requirements for all previous funding (this grant) and complied with all other accountability requirements.
    • have met acquittal requirements for all previous Northern Territory Government grants and complied with all other accountability requirements.
    • have an Australian Business Number (ABN) or, if you do not have an ABN, have a completed Statement by a Supplier form (available from the Australia Taxation Office (ATO) website).
    • have public liability insurance of at least $10 million.
    • be registered for Goods and Services Tax if your organisation earns $75,000 or more per year.

Ineligible

• This funding is not able to support:
  • any activity of a political party nature;
  • any activity of a commercial or business nature;
  • any activity that relates to personal professional development for individuals;
  • alcoholic beverages for the event/function;
  • set-up or running costs of a business, purchase of capital equipment (including hardware or software);
  • retrospective funding for projects, functions, services that have already started or have been completed or items that have already been provided or previously purchased;
  • management or administration fees of the organisation or wages for staff;
  • promotion and advertising of the project.

For more information, visit Northern Territory Government.