2026-2027 Community Project Grants Program – Projects

Brian Stockwell172:59

Really great. Thanks. I'll put the motion all in favour. That's unanimous. We then move on to the specific types of community grants and the first one is 2026-27 community project grant program projects and a quick snapshot of that.

Jessica Phillips174:32

I'm going to speak to this one. After 10 years as a police negotiator most of my work was in suicide intervention and so I wanted to highlight more for the community these projects because there's a few that really stood out to me. Um the main ship project, men's health um, in Noosa, I think it's called grab life by the balls and I just want to say that I think it's really great to see us supporting men's mental health. For many years I've seen funding and opportunities for women's health and sometimes I've seen some gaps in our men's mental health and so seeing that on here actually me made me feel really really good I'm so very very happy to support that but also the whole list of these projects and I'm just going to read them out just for community outreach project the safer spaces pilot program with red frogs young people project another thing that I think is just incredibly important. You look at that list and anything you think no wonder we know how much those volunteers do but these programs will probably change lives so I'm really grateful to support it thanks for bringing it to us Allison.

Nicola Wilson179:57

I do. In accordance with Chapter 5B of the Local Government Act 2009, I inform the meeting that I have a prescribed conflict of interest in relation to item 7.4, 2026-27 community grants program, community project grants, facility development, as Noosa Arts Theatre have been recommended as a recipient of a facility development grant. I am the senior vice president of Noosa Arts Theatre as a result of my conflict of interest, I will now leave the meeting room while the matter is considered and voted on.

Brian Stockwell180:28

Thank you. And I will follow up under the same section as local government. I inform the meeting that I have prescribed conflict of interest in relation to item 7.4, the 26-27 community grants program, community project grants, facility development on this agenda, as I am the current president of Noosa Lions Football Club, who I recommend for funding as of. Today. A result my conflicts, I will now leave the meeting room while the matter is considered and voted on.

Brian Stockwell183:41

Favour that's. Welcome back. Thank you. Well done to the Chairperson. Thank you. Okay we then move on to item 7.5 which is the 2026-27 community grants project grant program for equipment. Over to you, Alison.

Brian Stockwell189:27

I put to the vote those in favour. That's unanimous. We then move on to the next item, if I scroll down, will be events, I think, is the community project grants program for events.

Just add to that, these are project grants so they are single year projects they're not funded not a year so this is just a single year project so while it might be a organisation might apply in multiple years therefore very discreet projects.

Thank you very much Councillors. So first report today. The purpose of today's report is to provide a summary of the 26-27 community grants and three year signature community event grants. To seek Council's endorsement of the proposed funding allocation across the four categories. And those categories being projects, equipment, facility development and events. The grant program as you are aware is a really key driver to our situation. Strategic goals for Council and supporting our community organisations and our most valuable volunteers in the community as well. The demand continues to exceed. So the demand that we get for our grants continues to exceed what we have in our budget and we've had over 626. Six hundred and twenty six thousand dollars worth of requests coming through from 42 community organisations for our community project grants. This really highlights what the reason why we need to do a very robust and transparent assessment process as well grants. For this particular round we're recommending 22 projects for funding to the value of $258,466.82 with a total project value of $862 thousand dollars,000. So what I'd like I would to let you know is every dollar that we provide to our community project grants and subject to endorsement we're actually getting $3.33 in return so it's a great investment. So again for our three out-of-round signature grants recommended funding for $27,000 we're leveraging a total project value of over $95,000. So if we put that into a dollar investment into it is every dollar we put in we're getting $3.55 in return. So again a great investment. So the outcome being sought in this particular report is Council's agreement to endorse the recommended distribution of grant funding and the allocation of remaining funds to community respond to emerging community needs through the quick response grants throughout the year subject to sufficient funds being allocated in Council's adopted budget in 26-27 community grants program. Thank you very much.