Funds Available for Hume S Community Groups

Funds Available for Hume S Community Groups

Grants Available in July 2017

Media Release

3 July 2017

FUNDS AVAILABLE FOR HUME’S COMMUNITY GROUPS

Federal Member for Hume Angus Taylor is encouraging all community groups in the electorate to apply now for funding under the Stronger Communities Programme.

Grants of between $2500 and $20,000 are available, with $150,000 in total to be allocated across the electorate. Up to 50% of a project’s cost may be funded.

Mr Taylor said the application process was simple, with groups asked to submit an expression of interest outlining their project proposal, costs and benefits to his office via mail or email.

“The first two rounds of this programme were a great success, with 27 groups sharing in funding and undertaking projects as diverse as children’s playgrounds, sporting facility upgrades, a disabled ramp, a new men’s shed and a community pantry,” Mr Taylor said.

“In this new round we are looking for projects right across Hume - from community groups and not-for-profits, which will deliver real benefits to our residents, improving local participation and contributing to a vibrant and viable community.

“Sporting groups, progress associations, community support organisations, child care facilities, men’s sheds, historical societies and the like are all welcome to apply.”

A local committee of community representatives will assess all expressions of interest received and determine which groups will be invited to apply by mid-August.

Successful groups will then be invited to submit a full application which will be assessed by the Department of Industry, Innovation and Science.

The full eligibility criteria for funding through the Stronger Communities Programme is available at https://www.business.gov.au/assistance/stronger-communities-programme

  • Expressions of interest for projects must be limited to 300 words and sent via email to or by mail to Angus Taylor MP PO Box 700 Goulburn NSW 2580
  • Applications will close on Friday 28 July 2017

Note from ULSC - A 300 word application needs to go in to Angus Taylor’s office by 28th July. Successful EOI applications will then be asked to submit full applications between 7 August and 28 September 2017. Please use the link available to check the guidelines.

Protecting Our Places grants - now open for applications

To celebrate NAIDOC 2017 week, the NSW Environmental Trust is launching its revamped Protecting Our Places grant program. Aboriginal organisations around NSW are now invited to submit applications to the 2017 round of the program.

Funding is available to Aboriginal community groups and organisations throughout NSW for projects that encourage and empower Aboriginal communities to protect, conserve and restore cultural landscapes that are of importance to local Aboriginal communities.

The following Aboriginal community organisations/groups can apply:

  1. NSW Legislated organisations
    NSW Local Aboriginal Land Councils (NSW Land Right Act 1983)
    NSW Registered Native Title groups (NSW Native Title Act 1994)
  2. NSW Registered Incorporated / Corporate organisations
    NSW Aboriginal incorporated community organisation (CATSI Act 2006)
    NSW Registered incorporated non-profit group (CATSI Act 2006)
  3. Unincorporated aboriginal organisations and groups supported by administrators

Grants of up to $65,000 are available over two stages:

  • Stage 1: Planning – up to $10,000 (plus $5,000 for capacity building)
  • Stage 2: Implementation – up to $50,000

Applications close 3pm Monday 4 September 2017.

Application materials

Guidelines, application forms and a range of resources are available on the Trust's website: www.environment.nsw.gov.au/grants/pop.htm

Workshops

A series of workshops will be held around NSW in July/August to promote the program and assist potential applicants with project ideas. To find out the when and where the workshops will be held, go to the Trust website.

Questions?

Contact the Trust Administration on (02) 8837 6093 or email:
To find out about other grants programs delivered by the Environmental Trust, please visit the Trust website: www.environment.nsw.gov.au/grants/grantsintro.htm .

NSW Environmental Trust
PO Box 644, Parramatta NSW 2124
(Level 4, 10 Valentine Avenue, Parramatta NSW 2150)
Phone 02 8837 6093
Fax 02 9895 6548

www.environmentaltrust.nsw.gov.au

The NSW Environmental Trust is administered by the Office of Environment and Heritage

Canon Oceania Grants - Inspiring Tomorrow

Funding Providers

Canon

Location

Aus

Funding Type

Grant G04565

Primary Category

Environment & Sustainability

Eligible to

  • Not-for-Profits
  • Schools

Funding

Amount: $0 to $5,000

Round

  • Closes 04-Aug-2017

Last Round

  • Closed 05-Aug-2016

Purpose

We are excited to announce a change to our previous Environmental Grants Program, introducing our new Canon Oceania Grants Program - Inspiring Tomorrow!

Overview

In the spirit of our guiding philosophy of Kyosei - living and working together for the common good, Canon has proudly supported community and environmental groups throughout Oceania for the last 10 years.

Canon Australia will consider your application if you are an eligible organisation and can demonstrate that the $5,000 (retail value) worth of equipment will be used to facilitate an educational, community or environmental project that will benefit the Australian community.

Applicants may apply for a Grant in one or (where eligible) more of the following categories:

  • Community Grant: A project with significance to a local community;
  • Educational Grant: A project being run by a primary, secondary or tertiary school;
  • Environmental Grant: A project with environmental significance and impact

We are offering eight grants worth of Canon equipment in-kind across Australia and New Zealand. This year’s grants will be awarded under the following categories:

Australia

  • 1 x Environmental Grant - $5,000
  • 1 x Education/School Grant - $5,000
  • 1 x Community/social Grant - $5,000
  • 1 x Runner-up Grant - $1,000

New Zealand

  • 1 x Environmental Grant - $5,000
  • 1 x Education/School Grant - $5,000
  • 1 x Community/social Grant - $5,000

Limitations

This new program will now support schools and not-for-profit groups who are addressing both social and environmental issues in their community and inspiring change for future generations.

The Canon Australia Environmental Grants do not support:

  • Political organisations
  • Religious organisations
  • Sport organisations
  • Requests from individuals
  • Fundraising dinners or events
  • Capital building, endowment, or debt reduction drives
  • Requests from foreign countries

Applications / Guidelines

Application methods: Mail, Email

Website: Details

Canon

  • Address: Canon Australia Environmental Grants Building A, The Park Estate 5 Talavera Road Macquarie Park 2113 NSW
  • Phone: (02) 8879 7976
  • Email:

Copyright Agency Fellowships

Funding Providers

Copyright Agency Limited (CAL)

Location

Aus

Funding Type

Scholarship S04971

Primary Category

Research

Eligible to

  • Individuals

Funding

Amount: $0 to $80,000

Round

  • Closes 25-Sep-2017

Last Round

  • Closed 23-Sep-2016

Purpose

The Copyright Agency’s Cultural Fund has committed $120,000 each year for the fellowships to do the following; Provide established authors with funds that will allow them to dedicate a serious amount of time to writing and Give publishers with five or more years’ experience the opportunity to research world-leading trends in publishing and provide that information back to industry.

Overview

AUTHOR FELLOWSHIPS - The Copyright Agency will award $80,000 to a mid to late career author to cover a 12 month period and to be used for the development and creation of work.

To be eligible, the applicant must be a mid to late career author with at least five substantial published works. Of these five published works, two can be self-published.

  • The applicant must be an Australian citizen or permanent resident.
  • Open to novelists, playwrights, poets, scriptwriters, non-fiction writers, children’s book writers and journalists.
  • Authors must submit their own applications. Publishers are not able to apply on behalf of authors.
  • The applicant must have a publishing contract or a letter of intention to publish from the publisher. This prize/fellowship is not to supplant any advance offered under their publishing contract.
  • The successful applicant will agree to acknowledge the Copyright Agency Cultural Fund support in any publication arising from the fellowship.

PUBLISHER FELLOWSHIPS - Copyright Agency Publisher Fellowships of up to $10,000 each will be awarded to research world-leading trends in the publishing industry and to share this information with the industry.

These Fellowships aim to celebrate excellence and innovation in publishing while providing an opportunity for Australia’s best publishers to build awareness of publishing trends and emerging business models and technologies. The Fellowships provide fellows with support to learn from leaders in publishing from around the world.

Limitations

The Fellowships will be awarded to individuals who exhibit leadership, excellence and innovation in their field.

Applications / Guidelines

Application methods: Online

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  • Phone: (02) 9394 7600
  • Email:

$200k funding boost for ArtsReady
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The Government will provide a $200,000 boost for the ArtsReady program, which assists employers in the arts and culture sector to engage young Australians in traineeships.
The 12-month traineeships prepare participants to graduate as job-ready for the arts and creative industries.
In its fourth year, this additional funding will assist ArtsReady to make the final transition to a fully self-funded program.
ArtsReady is delivered by AFL SportsReady and is modelled on their program that has successfully provided employment and education opportunities for thousands of young Australians for more than 20 years in the sports sector.
Offering a mix of school-based and full-time traineeships in the arts and related industries, ArtsReady has already delivered 310 traineeships and internships across the country.
The program builds skills development through accredited training that combines practical experience at work with vocational education. It also supports employers during the recruitment and employment process.
The approach has proven successful in helping young Australians get a start in a career in the arts and creative industries.
ArtsReady has a strong focus on increasing the participation of Indigenous Australians in the workforce. To date, 40 per cent of the internships have been completed by Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander young people.
For more information about the initiative visit: Growth Fund
Councils, industry and community organisations in regional NSW are encouraged to apply for funding for their local infrastructure projects.
The $1.3 billion Regional Growth Fund includes:
  • Growing Local Economies – unlocking the economic potential of regional towns and cities and creating jobs
  • Regional Sports Infrastructure – supporting participation and high achievement for regional sporting communities
  • Connecting Country Communities – improving telecommunication connectivity in regional NSW to drive economic growth
  • Resources for Regions – delivering infrastructure and community requirements in mining affected communities
  • Stronger Country Communities – investing in projects that improve local amenities for residents, such as upgrades to local parks, community centres and playgrounds
  • Regional Cultural Fund(external link) – building and upgrading arts and cultural venues including art galleries, libraries, performance spaces and cultural centres
Applications are currently being assessed for the $300 million Regional Growth - Environment and Tourism Fund(external link),which invests in environmental assets, tourism infrastructure and attractions to drive greater visitation and spend across regional NSW.
Deputy Premier John Barilaro said the funding would help deliver the government’sRegional Development Framework to ensure all regional residents had access to the same infrastructure and services as people in the city.
“We’re creating jobs, boosting tourism, and supporting communities by building and fixing the things that matter most to them and wherever possible, that work will go to local tradies,” Mr Barilaro said.
Some interesting census information…
AUSTRALIA TODAY
THE WAY WE LIVE NOW
Australia, your numbers are in.
The results of our latest national Census reveal who we are, where we live, what we do, how we work and how we lead our lives.
The information we've gathered will inform planning and decision-making for our future – decisions about where we build schools and roads and hospitals; about how we care for our most vulnerable citizens; about where we need funding and services across every community in Australia.
So here is the story of our nation – a living biography we get to update once every five years.
2016 Census: It's our data, and our future.
Happy family in living room
The population of Australia is 24.4 million
While the Census counted 23,401,892 people in Australia, the exact figure moves by the day due to births, deaths and international migration. As of August 2016, the Census revealed there were quite a few more of us than five years ago – 1,894,175 to be precise. That’s about 1,037 extra Aussies every day since the 2011 Census.
Put another way, we’ve grown since the 2011 Census by roughly the same amount as Adelaide, Canberra and Hobart’s total population combined in 2016.
While we’re outside the top 50 countries by population, we’re number six in land area (about 7.5 million km²) – giving us each a little more than 300,000 square metres. Both China and India have more than 50 times our population, whereas we have five times the population of New Zealand or Ireland.
Our first state, New South Wales, remains our most populous (seven million) but it’s not growing as quickly as other states and territories (8.1% since 2011).The Australian Capital Territory, Victoria and Western Australia all grew by 11% between 2011 and 2016.
Our eastern mainland is still where most Australians call home, with almost eight in 10 people living in New South Wales, Victoria, Queensland and the Australian Capital Territory. Plenty of us – seven in 10 of us in fact – live in our capital cities. While the population of Australia has grown by close to 18% in this time, the populations of our cities have grown by a lower percentage – 11%.
That old Sydney versus Melbourne thing? It’s still the Harbour City with 4.8 million, but at 4.4 million, Melbourne is closing fast.
The Australian cities that are growing include Darwin (14%), Melbourne (12%) and Perth (12%).
However, not all our cities are growing at this pace. Those that have experienced the least amount of growth since the 2011 Census were Hobart (5.1%), Adelaide (5.8%), Brisbane (10%) and Sydney (10%).
Australia is much more than a collection of big cities. Alice Springs, our ‘biggest little town’, has a population of 24,753 ; Kalgoorlie, Australia’s largest outback city is home to 13,937. people; and iconic Birdsville – a population of just 115 people at the 2006 Census, now has 140 people.
Norfolk Island joined the Australian Census for the first time in 2016, adding 1,748 to our population.
Leafy suburb
85 is the new 65
Australia’s once youthful population is ageing slowly. Our median age is now 38. It was 23 in 1911, 28 in 1966, and 37 in 2011.
As our baby-boomer generation ‘matures’, we find that one in six of us are now over 65, compared to one in seven in 2011 and only one in 25 in 1911.
The greying of Australia continues, with 84,000 more people aged 85 years and older than in the 2011 Census. Today, people who are 85 years and older comprise 2.1% of our usual resident population.
More of us are surviving well into old age, thanks to improvements in diet, public health and medical technology. In fact, our population of centenarians – people who live to or beyond 100 years – grew to 3,500 in 2016. That’s a lot of congratulatory letters the Queen must write!
Women are living longer than men. Of those people aged 65 or older, 54% are women and 46% are men. Of those people aged 85 and older, 63% are women and 37% are men.
Older couple standing in garden
First Australians
Imagine a country with 150 languages and a history of at least 50,000 years. This is Australia's Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander peoples, which grew by 18% in the past five years to 649,171.
Since the 1996 Census, the median age of Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander people has been on the rise. In 1996, the median age was 20 years, increasing to 21 years in 2011 and 23 years in 2016. Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander peoples represented 2.8% of Australia’s 2016 Census population.
And despite popular perceptions that Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander peoples live predominantly in northern Australia or other remote parts of the country, our data shows otherwise. Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander peoples live right across Australia, and one in three live in capital cities.
More than six in 10 who reported being of Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander origin in 2016 live in New South Wales and Queensland. They also make up more than one quarter (26%) of the population of the Northern Territory – easily the highest proportion of any state or territory.
Aboriginal Australian listening to music
A nation of nations
Where do we come from? Almost everywhere. Australians were born in close to 200 different countries – meaning people from all over the world are part of our diverse nation.
With more than 300 languages spoken in our homes (including Auslan – Australian Sign Language), more than 100 religions and more than 300 different ancestries, the Census highlights our rich cultural diversity.
The Census shows that Australia has a higher proportion of overseas-born people (26%) than the United States (14%), Canada (22%) and New Zealand (23%). What about the United Kingdom, you say? Not even close (13%).
This makes Australia a hugely diverse nation.
Dig a generation deeper and our diversity becomes even richer. People born overseas, or who had at least one parent born overseas, made up almost half (49%) of our entire population in 2016. Perhaps this explains why so many of us are not sure who to cheer for in the World Cup, or at Eurovision.
This is the changing face of our nation. No other data captures and reflects multicultural Australians like our Census does.
Our own ‘nation of nations’ continues to flourish with each Census.
People walking in busy city street
How we worship – or not
Australia remains a religious country, with 60% of our population reporting a religious affiliation. However, the proportion of people reporting no religion, including people with secular and other spiritual beliefs, increased to 30% in 2016 – up from 22% five years ago.
The current state of the nation’s faith breaks along age lines. Older people keep their faith. Younger people tend to report ‘no religion’. This response was most common among younger people, with 39% of those aged 18 to 34 reporting no religious affiliation.
Part of the decline in religious affiliation is a general move away from the traditional Christian denominations. Nevertheless, 52% reported an affiliation with a Christian religion – predominantly Catholic (23%) and Anglican (13%). New South Wales and Queensland remain the most Christian states, but there is an overall decline in the percentage of Australians reporting their faith as Christian.
About 8.2% of us reported a religion other than Christianity, with Islam (2.6%) and Buddhism (2.4%) the most common.
Meanwhile, Jedi numbers are down – is this part of the move towards ‘no religion’, or are our minds just drifting from a galaxy far, far away?
Money, money, money
While our collective faith is in decline, our median personal incomes are rising. The national weekly median was $662 for people aged 15 years and over – up from $557 in 2011. These figures are in actual dollars and do not account for inflation.
How does what you earn compare to those of other Australians? Our Census reports on median incomes – the middle point in a distribution of income values.
The Australian Capital Territory had the highest median personal income ($998 per week) and Tasmania was some way behind with the lowest ($573).
The national picture rounds out with the Northern Territory ($871), Western Australia ($724), New South Wales ($664), Victoria ($644), Queensland ($660) and South Australia ($600).

How we live now
Darryl Kerrigan portrayed our traditional attitude to home ownership best in The Castle, the story of the quintessential Aussie battler looking to protect his modest, detached house on a quarter-acre block in the suburbs of Melbourne: “It's not a house it's a home. A man's home is his castle.”
But are we still a nation of Kerrigans?
We’re still a nation of home owners, or aspirational home owners, with 31% of Australian homes owned outright and 34% owned with a mortgage – leaving 31% being rented. However, the proportion renting is slowly growing, while those who have the good fortune of owning their home outright are declining.
Our home is not just our castle – it’s also our caravan, our cabin, our houseboat, and even our tent.
The Census aims to count every dwelling in the country. A dwelling is ‘any structure which is intended to have people in it, and is habitable on Census night’. For 2016, we counted almost 10 million dwellings.
While separate houses still account for most homes in Australia (72%), there’s been a large increase in other forms of dwelling, such as flats, apartments, semi-detached, row housing or town housing, which now make up more than a quarter (26%) of Australian housing – all higher density residential development. Our castles are getting closer together.
Of the 8.3 million occupied private dwellings, seven in 10 housed families (69% by one family and 1.9% by multiple families), one in four were one-person households, and one in 25 were group households.
Family: A small word that describes so much
What does our data say about the evolution of the ‘traditional’ family unit in Australia? Family composition changed little between 2011 and 2016.
The 2016 Census counted more than six million families in Australia on Census night – up from over five million families in 2011. About 45% of these families were couples with children; 38% were couples without children; and 16% were single parent families. Of all single-parent families, female single parents make up 82%, and male single parents make up 18%.
Also, almost one in four Australians (24%) now live in single person households.
Is Australia raising its rainbow flag? It sure is. We counted more than 47,000 same-sex couples in 2016 – up from 33,000 in 2011 (a 42% increase) and 26,000 in 2006 (an 81% increase).

Our Australia
There you have it Australia. Once again, thanks to your participation in last year’s Census, we've updated Australia’s richest data source, showing how our communities, our country – how all of us – have changed over time.
As a nation, there are more of us, we're living longer, becoming more urbanised, more diverse, less religious, living closer together, earning more and forming the same type of family unit.
This is the way we live now.

Information with thanks from: http://www.abs.gov.au/ausstats/abs@.nsf/mf/2024.0