Current Grant Opportunity View - GO7242

The Australian Government is inviting organisations to apply in an open competitive grant process to deliver services under the Families and Communities Program – Financial Wellbeing and Capability (FWC) Activity – Emergency Relief across Australia, at the Statistical Area Level 4 (SA4), from 1 July 2025 to 30 June 2030.

The Emergency Relief program contributes to the FWC Activity outcomes by providing immediate financial or material aid to eligible people in financial stress or hardship and who have limited means or resources to help them alleviate their financial crisis.

The objectives of the grant opportunity are:

• assisting people to manage their immediate crisis situation
• delivering services in a way that maintains the dignity of the individual and families
• referring people to other relevant services, to help them pay bills or reduce the risk of being unable to pay their bills
• encouraging greater self-reliance, through empowering people in immediate financial crisis.

If you are an Unincorporated Association please see the Grant Opportunity Guidelines for more information on eligibility.

This grant opportunity will be open for 6 weeks for applications on GrantConnect.

To be eligible you must be one of the following entity types:

• Company
• Cooperative
• Corporate Commonwealth Entity
• Corporate State or Territory Entity
• Incorporated Association
• Indigenous Corporation
• Local Government
• Non-corporate Commonwealth Statutory Authority
• Non-corporate State or Territory Entity
• Non-corporate State or Territory Statutory Authority
• Partnership
• Statutory Entity.

If you are applying as a Trustee on behalf of a Trust , the Trustee must be one of the eligible entity types listed above.

Assessment of applications - 4 weeks

Approval of outcomes of selection process - 4 weeks

Notification to applicants - 2 weeks

Negotiations and award of grant agreements - Up to 6 weeks

Start date of grant activity - 1 July 2025

End date of grant activity - 30 June 2030.

To apply you must:

• complete the online application form on GrantConnect 
• provide all the information requested
• address all eligibility criteria and assessment criteria
• complete all required templates
• submit your application/s to the Community Grants Hub by 9:00pm AEDT on 2 December 2024.

Please use:

• Financial Wellbeing and Capability Activity - Emergency Relief - Questions and Answers - version 6
• Financial Wellbeing and Capability Activity - Emergency Relief - Grant Opportunity Guidelines - version 2
• Update to the description on this landing page and addition of questions 46 to 49.