Funding Opportunities

Grants currently available from FRRR

Strengthening Rural Communities – Round 25  – closes 5pm AEST, 24 June 2025:

  • SRC Small & Vital (two streams):

    • Up to $10,000 for community-led initiatives that benefit local communities, with a preference for smaller communities, i.e. populations under 15,000. Delivery timeframe is up to 12 months.

    • Targeted grants up to $50,000 for projects that focus on strengthening the digital skills, confidence and safety of adults. Delivery timeframe is up to 18 months.

  • SRC Prepare & Recover
    This round of SRC includes additional funding for digital initiatives to support adults, including grants up to $50,000 through either stream.

  • Community Led Climate Solutions – closes 26 June, 2025. The program is collaboratively funded by donors committed to enabling communities to address the impacts of climate change locally for positive and sustainable environmental, social and economic outcomes. EOIs for Scaling Grants have closed, but Stream 1 is still open and those shortlisted from the EOIs will also need to submit their applications:

    • Stream 1: Engage & Deliver Small Grants – up to $20,000.

  • Backing The future - opens 16 June, closes 28 July 2025 - provides one-off, $50,000 grants to support individuals in developing, testing and accelerating projects that benefit young people aged 12-30 in QLD and NSW.

 

$1,000 SafeWork small business rebate

If you are a small business owner in NSW, this $1,000 rebate will help you purchase safety items to improve work health and safety for you and your workers. Read more HERE

Farm Household Allowance

A payment for farming families in financial hardship.

To get this you must:

  • be a farmer or partner of a farmer

  • meet the income and assets test limits

  • meet mutual obligation requirements.

A farmer must contribute significant labour and capital to a farm.

Read more HERE about the program or read full conditions HERE.

Australia Post Community Grants

Closes Monday 7 July 2025

Applications open 10am tomorrow! These grants up to $10,000 for locally-led mental health & wellbeing projects are hugely popular with our community. In 2025, the program is expanding with up to $250,000 in additional grants for disaster-impacted communities across Australia. Read more HERE.

Primary producers can claim an immediate deduction for capital expenses on fencing & fodder storage.

Fence and fencing asset includes an enclosure or barrier, usually made of metal or wood, around or along a field or paddock and includes posts, rails, wire, droppers, gates, fittings and anchor assemblies.

Fodder and fodder storage asset includes a structural improvement, a repair of a capital nature, or an alteration, addition or extension, to an asset or structural improvement, that is a fodder storage asset. Read more HERE

Drought Ready & Resilient

Through the Drought Ready and Resilient Fund, eligible primary producers can access a low-interest loan up to $250,000 to help prepare for, manage and recover from drought.

Applications are now open and will continue to be accepted until program funding is exhausted.

Read more HERE

Wettenhall Environmental Trust - Small Environmental Grant Scheme

$2000 to $15,000 grants to support grassroots organisations, individuals and academics for projects making a positive difference to the biodiversity conservation in land, sea or air, rural or urban areas. Learn more or apply HERE

Landholders who are members of Land for Wildlife can apply at any time for a Landholder Biodiversity Grant.

As a Land for Wildlife Member, you can apply for $2,000/year. Land for Wildlife members can apply for up to three years with each year being a new application. If demand for the program is high, you may only be successful in one year. Years two and three applications will be considered after successful acquittal of previous year. Read more HERE