Sustainability grant program

Introduced by Council in 2011, the Climate Change and Sustainability Grant program provides financial assistance to not-for-profit community groups that want to make a positive contribution to promoting sustainable communities, improving energy efficiency, or enhancing community resilience to climate change and/or peak oil.

The grant aims to encourage:

• increased awareness of sustainability and/or climate change and enhanced community resilience to climate change;
• partnerships between Council and community groups;
• improvements in resource efficiency, ecological resilience, community health and wellbeing and economic sustainablity; and 
• a greater sense of community and connection to our local environment.

The grant is open for applications in October to November of each year.  Grants of up to $10,000 are available for succesful groups from a total pool of $20,000.