Discretionary funds

Council makes discretionary funds available each financial year to community organisations for community purposes.

Community organisations may make application for discretionary funds.

Applications for discretionary funds by community organisations must be made in accordance with Council's Discretionary Funds Policy, Availability notice(PDF, 126KB) and the Discretionary funds guidelines(PDF, 177KB).

Please note:

  • projects must not commence before the application outcome is known
  • allow a minimum of 15 business days processing time after submitting a completed application; and
  • if successful, an Outcome Report will be due four weeks after project completion date.

For more information contact Council or email grants@moretonbay.qld.gov.au.

Funding for 2023/24

The Local Government Regulation 2012 requires Council to allocate an amount for discretionary funds that does not exceed the prescribed amount. The prescribed amount, for a local government for a financial year, means 0.1% of the local government’s revenue from general rates for the previous financial year.

Council has allocated a total amount of $288,730 for discretionary funds for 2023/24.

Recent legislative changes also require the amount of discretionary funds a local government budgets for allocation by each Councillor in a financial year to be the same for all Councillors. In 2023/24 this amount equates to $22,210 for a Councillor.

Applications closing for the 2024 local government election

The Local Government Regulation 2012 restricts the allocation of discretionary funds in the lead-up to a local government election. This means Councillors are unable to issue funds to community organisations from 1 January 2024 until after the March 2024 election results have been published.

Applications will close on Monday 4 December 2023 to allow time for processing. Community groups will be unable to apply for funding until applications reopen after the election.

All supporting information must be complete and provided when submitting your application.  

Applications

Applications have now closed.

Registers

A register of the amounts allocated under Council's discretionary funds is published in accordance with the Local Government Regulation 2012.