Grants
CLOSES:
Strengthening Rural Communities - Small & Vital
Funding body: FRRR
Amount: Up to $10,000
24 June 2026,
5pm
Description: The Strengthening Rural Communities (SRC) Small & Vital stream gives small remote, rural and regional communities across Australia the opportunity to access funds for a broad range of initiatives that directly and clearly benefit local communities.
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Strengthening Rural Communities - Prepare & Recover
Funding body: FRRR
Amount: Up to $25,000
24 June 2026,
5pm
Description: The Strengthening Rural Communities (SRC) Prepare & Recover program supports communities in remote, rural and regional communities across Australia to implement initiatives that prevent and prepare for future climate related impacts, or recover from existing disasters in the medium to long-term timeframe, generally one to ten years after the disaster.
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Community Led Climate Solutions
Funding body: FRRR
Amount: Up to $75,000
26 June 2026,
5pm
Description: Community Led Climate Solutions Projects must support remote, rural and regional communities to act locally to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and help address the impacts of climate change for positive and sustainable environmental, social and economic outcomes.
EOIs open 10 February 2026.
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Future Ready 2027-28 program
Funding body: Vic Gov
Amount: Up to $168,000
26 June 2026,
1pm
Description: Future Ready funds a range of activities for secondary school students, including but not limited to mentoring, supporting students to understand and reach their potential, recognised training, work-placement or volunteering, leadership opportunities, hands on learning and development opportunities. Future Ready 2027–2028 offers two-year funding for government secondary schools and not-for-profit community organisations or social enterprises (in partnership with government secondary schools).
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FDF Communities – RDRP Social Outcome
Funding body: FRRR
Amount: Up to $100,000
30 June 2026
Description: Regional Drought Resilience Plan (RDRP) Social Outcome Grants support not-for-profit organisations in remote, rural and regional Australia to develop and deliver local projects that will broadly result in strengthened social capital, wellbeing and connectedness to prepare for and build social resilience to drought.
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FDF Communities – Small Network
Funding body: FRRR
Amount: Up to $50,000
30 June 2026
Description: Small Network Grants support not-for-profit organisations in remote, rural and regional Australia to develop and deliver local projects or initiatives that will broadly result in strengthened social capital, wellbeing and connectedness to prepare for and build social resilience to drought.
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ANZ Seeds of Renewal
Funding body: FRRR
Amount: Up to $15,000
30 July 2026
Description: ANZ Seeds of Renewal is a small grants program designed to help build vibrant and sustainable rural communities, to ensure the ongoing prosperity of regional Australia. The program demonstrates ANZ’s ongoing commitment to shape a world where people and communities thrive.
Opens 1 July.
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Recreational Fishing Grants Program – Small Grants
Funding body: Victorian Fisheries Authority
Amount: Up to $5,000
Ongoing
Description: Community Funds small projects that benefit public recreational fishing across Victoria. Open to community groups, sporting clubs, and non-government organisations. Projects providing all-abilities access are particularly encouraged.
Awards
2026 Victorian Disability Awards
Closes: 26 June 2026
Description: The Victorian Disability Awards recognises a person, group and organisation that champion disability rights and inclusion, demonstrate best practice policy delivery and advocacy, are role models in their own communities and across Victoria, and promote disability pride.
Other Opportunities
Investing in Rural Community Futures (IRCF) is a grassroots program that aims to build the capacity of not-for-profit (NFP) organisations.
After being delivered in eight NSW communities, the program is now running in the Victorian communities of Colac, Maryborough and Swan Hill, thanks to the support of Helen Macpherson Smith Trust, The Jack Brockhoff Foundation, The Ross Trust and The William Buckland Foundation.