Support your community with local crime prevention activities
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As of 3 June 2020, the Safer Communities Fund Round 5 Infrastructure grants program is progressing and decisions on the outcomes of applications are imminent.
All applicants will be notified of the outcome of their application.
Safer Communities Fund – Round 5 – Early Intervention Grants
What do you get?
Up to $3 million to deliver local crime prevention activities.
Who is this for?
A state or territory peak Police Citizens’ Youth Club, state or territory peak Bluelight organisation or Youth Off the Streets Limited.
Overview
The objectives of the Safer Communities Fund – Round 5 – Early Intervention Grants are to:
- contribute to the preservation of the safety of Australians through funding local crime prevention activities that address anti-social behaviour and/or racial or religious intolerance by at-risk youth
- help at-risk marginalised young people aged 12 to 25 to develop life skills to prevent them from becoming entrenched in the criminal justice system and to promote inclusion and build community resilience
Grants available are between $200,000 and $3,000,000. The grant amount will be up to 100% of eligible project costs.
You must complete your project by 30 April 2024.
The Safer Communities Fund – Round 5 includes 2 other streams
Update your security infrastructure to protect your community in the Northern Territory
Update your security infrastructure to protect your community
Eligibility
What are the eligibility criteria?
To be eligible you must have an Australian business number (ABN) and be:
- a state or territory peak Police Citizens' Youth Club
- a state or territory peak Bluelight organisation
- Youth Off the Streets Limited
- nominated by the peak organisation in your state or territory to submit an application on their behalf.
If the peak organisation in your state or territory is not able to submit an application, they may nominate one organisation in your state to submit an application, either for one project or on behalf of multiple organisations.
If there are no state or territory peaks in your location, the Program Delegate has discretion to accept an application from one local Police Citizens' Youth Club or Bluelight organisation in each state.
Additional eligibility requirements
If you have been nominated by the peak organisation in your state or territory to submit an application, we can only accept applications where you:
- can provide evidence of the approval from your state or territory peak organisation to submit an application.
We cannot waive the eligibility criteria under any circumstances.
You are not eligible to apply if you are:
- a local Police Citizens' Youth Club (unless there is no peak organisation in your state or territory, or you are the only organisation in your state to receive written approval from your state peak to submit an application).
- a local Blue light organisation (unless there is no peak organisation in your state or territory, or you are the only organisation in your state to receive written approval from your state peak to submit an application).
Applying
How do you apply?
The Safer Communities Fund – Round 5 – Early Intervention Grants are closed to applications.
We assess your application against the eligibility criteria and then against the assessment criteria. Only eligible applications will proceed to the assessment stage.
The amount of detail and supporting evidence you provide in your application should be relative to the project size, complexity and grant amount requested. You should define, quantify and provide evidence to support your answers.
A Minister in the Home Affairs portfolio will make the final decision.
We will only award funding to applications that score at least 50% against each assessment criterion, as these represent best value for money.
Assessment criterion 1: The extent that your project will contribute to improved social cohesion and outcomes for at risk youth (50 points).
Assessment criterion 2: The impact of grant funding on your project (30 points).
Assessment criterion 3: Your capacity, capability and resources to deliver the project (20 points).
If your application is successful, you'll receive a written offer. If you're unsuccessful, we'll notify you in writing and give you the chance to discuss the outcome with us.
Successful applicants must enter into a grant agreement with the Commonwealth. The grant agreement will specify the reporting requirements, payment schedule and milestones necessary to receive payments.
We'll make the first payment when the grant agreement is executed. We'll make subsequent payments six monthly in advance, based on your forecast eligible expenditure and adjusted for unspent amounts from previous payments. Payments are subject to satisfactory progress on the project.
We set aside at least 5% of the total grant funding for the final payment. We'll pay this when you submit a satisfactory end of project report demonstrating you have completed outstanding obligations for the project.
We'll make payments by direct credit into a nominated bank account.
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