Helpful Tips For Winning More Grants
Clarify your Group’s Needs
- Identify and prioritise your Group’s needs
- Collect material that supports need e.g. Police report, news articles, letters of support from Local Council or neighbours
- Clarify costs – collect quotes for property work or indicative costs of goods
Search for Suitable Grants
- Government websites: Federal, State and Local
- Grant Websites
- Be Informed – fundraising section
- Join our Grant Writing Community by emailing your Group name and first name to grants.manager@scoutsvictoria.com.au
Examples of relevant websites:
- Grants Victoria: https://www.vic.gov.au/grants.html
- Sport and Recreation: http://sport.vic.gov.au/grants-and-funding/our-grants (Community Sporting Grant)
- VicSport: https://vicsport.com.au/grants
- Department of Social Services https://www.dss.gov.au/grants (youth related grants)
- Grant guru http://community.grantready.com.au/
- Our Community: https://www.fundingcentre.com.au/grant/home
- Shade Grants: https://www2.health.vic.gov.au/public-health/preventive-health/skin-cancer-prevention
- Health grants: https://www2.health.vic.gov.au/searchresults?q=grants
Complete Application
- If property involved – complete a P2 form and arrange for our Facilities Project Manager to assess before lodging application. Email property@scoutsvictoria.com.au for details
- Quotes – have ready before you start
- Project Contact - you
- Contract Partner – Scouts Victoria, therefore Contract Partner is Jon McGregor (Executive Manager), contact details and banking details are Scouts Victoria’s
- Answering questions – always address the eligibility and assessment criteria
- Always show how the project will help funding body achieve its objective
Complete Agreement
- Legal contract – please carefully read and clarify the clauses that you don’t understand
- Signature - Jon McGregor
Receive Funds
- Up to $5000 – transferred as soon as Scouts Victoria received
- Over $5000 – Scouts Victoria holds and will pay your invoices presented to Finance
- $15,000+ property work – needs to be reviewed by Property Sub Committee
- Please watch your spending against your budget in agreement
Complete Project
- Plan and monitor works within specification, time and budget in agreement
- Keep copies of all expenses paid
- Take photos of before and after (proof of work completed)
Complete Acquittal Report
- Very important because what you do, directly impacts the overall relationship with the funding body and future grants for all Scouting Groups
- Not all grants require acquittal reports – clarify at application stage just to be sure
- Reports usually require essential information, proving that the funds were spent in accordance with the contract
- Must be lodged by specified time