Grants between $1,000 and $5,000 are available to support volunteers of not-for-profit organisations. 

To be eligible to apply, more than 40% of your staff must be volunteers and all funding sought must directly benefit your organisation's volunteers.

There are two categories for Volunteer Grants which reflect areas of high demand for volunteer organisations:

• Category 1 - All eligible community organisations will be able to purchase items that will benefit any of a community organisation’s volunteers.
  
  
• Category 2 - Community organisations will be able to purchase items or fund volunteer-run activities for the main purpose of supporting:
  
  
  • Children’s development and wellbeing
  • First Nations people
  • Newly arrived migrants (within the past 5 years) who are not citizens
  • People with disability
  • Unemployed people who are volunteering to increase their capacity to engage in employment
  • Veterans and Australian Defence Force members
  • Women experiencing or at risk of experiencing gender-based violence or isolation to assist them to overcome that gender-based violence or isolation
  • Eliminating racial discrimination and promoting understanding, tolerance and friendship amongst racial or ethnic groups through the following
    
    

The Volunteer Grants will fund volunteer organisations for costs associated with any activity helping and supporting children and young people under 18, to help with the costs of modernising their operations and to cover key costs, including insurance premiums and internet bills.