Community Grants
Applications are open for Council's annual Community Grants Program.
The Community Project Grant aims to assist local, not-for-profit groups to improve community infrastructure. Download the application form here.
The Community Halls Support Program aims to assist community groups maintain or upgrade their hall. Download the application form here.
Applications close at 5pm on Friday, November 3, 2023.
Previous Grant Program Recipients
2021/22 Recipients were presented with certificates at the December 2021 meeting of Council.
Community Project Grants
- Cummins Bowling Club: $5,000 for a synthetic surface upgrade
- Port Lincoln Pistol and Shooting Club: $6,627.56 for a disability access pathways
- Cummins School Chaplaincy Group: $5,000 to upgrade the outdoor area for pre-schoolers
- Tulka Progress Association: $5,000 to build a facility at the Tulka Reserve
- Lower Eyre Coast Care Association: $13,990 for vegetation restoration and access management at Greenly Beach
- Big Swamp Community Centre: $4,800 for a storage facility
- Cummins and District Enterprise Committee: $5,000 for a visitor information display
Community Halls Support Program Grants
- North Shields Soldiers Memorial Hall: $5,000 to replace the front veranda
- Edillilie Memorial Progress Association: $2,950 for hall repairs and maintenance
- Coffin Bay Progress Association: $5,000 for hall ceiling and roof repairs
- Coulta Memorial Hall Incorporated: $2,695 for two water tanks
Individual, Educational and Cultural Grants
Nil.
The District Council of Lower Eyre Peninsula previously ran two grant programs each year - the Community Capital Support Grants and the Community Reserves Support Grants.
Community Capital Support Grants
2020/21
- Big Swamp Community Centre: $10,500 to construct a toilet block
- United Yeelanna Football Club: $15,000 to construct an children’s activity and storage room
- Point Boston Community Corporation Inc: $15,000 to repurpose the obsolete water facility building into a community meeting place
- Cummins Tennis Club: $3,348 for rewiring/ lighting upgrade at Cummins courts
- Coffin Bay Progress Association: $3,334 for a swimming pontoon
2019/20
- Mount Hope Soldiers Memorial Hall: $4,850 for guttering
- Cummins Christmas Wonderland: $12,500 for a storage shed
- Louth Bay Community Club: $7,622 for a solar and battery system
2018/19
- United Yeelanna Football Club: $5,500 to go towards upgrading the lights at Karkoo oval
- Cummins Kapinnie Netball Club: $5,500 towards resurfacing the Kapinnie netball and tennis courts
- North Shields Sports Association:$5,500 to help construct fencing at Dorward Oval
Community Reserves Support Grants
2020/21
- Cummins and District Tourism Committee: $8,300 to put towards the Cummins township entrance sign project for a sign at the southern entrance from Tod Highway.
2019/20
- Coulta Community Water Scheme: $6,250 to expand the existing community water scheme for township and CFS use
- Friends of Cummins Cemetery; $6,250 for entrance gates
- Cummins and District Tourism Committee: $6,250 for five entrance signs to Cummins
- Coffin Bay Progress Association: $6,250 for a desalination plant at Morgan Reserve
2018/19
- Tulka Progress Association: $10,000 towards building a shed for a community centre;
- Cummins and District Enterprise Committee: $7,400 for the Friends of Cummins Cemetery group to build shelters and seating at the Cummins Cemetery;
- Coffin Bay Progress Association: $5,300 to install playground fencing on the Coffin Bay foreshore; and,
- Big Swamp Community Centre: $5,800 to install solar panels on the Big Swamp Community Centre.
Need help with grant writing?
Economic Community Development Officer Julie Crettenden is available Monday to Wednesday. To contact email [email protected] or call 8676 0400.