Darebin Sport Recovery Grants 2020-21 - Application Portal

Welcome to the Darebin City Council's online grant application service, powered by SmartyGrants.

The Darebin Sport Recovery Grants Program is part of Council’s Community and Local Business Resilience Relief Package in response to COVID19. This program has been combined with the Sports Club Grants (formerly Leisure Minor Works program) to support rebuilding the capacity of local sports clubs and organisations to respond and recover to the impacts of COVID19, ultimately helping to kick start community sport again.

In 2020-21, we offer the Sport Recovery Grants Program in two rounds (August/September and February/March). This is a competitive grants program with grants of up to $5000 available to eligible sports clubs and organisations who best address the focuses and criteria outlined in these guidelines.

The focus areas of this recovery grants program for community sport are:

• Help clubs to get players back or to the club for the first time to play sport and improve the community’s physical and mental wellbeing, with a focus on inclusion.
• Support clubs to improve their financial sustainability/viability to rebound and deliver sport activity.
• Help clubs to manage COVID return to play guidelines and deliver a COVID-safe place to play for the community.

Click here to view the Sport Recovery Grant Program guidelines in full to assist your application.

For queries about using this system, guidelines, deadlines, or questions in the form, please contact our grants hotline on 8470 8888 during business hours or email us.

HOW TO APPLY

1. Review the program guidelines document.
2. Check if your club is eligible to apply, and your project is something that is in the might be funded list or links to focus areas of the grant.
3. Plan your project and grant submission, review application checklist, get together relevant electronic quotes, attachments and letters of support as required.
4. Submit your application here using our Smarty Grants online application system, click 'Start A Submission' button above.
5. Submit your application by the closing date for this round - Monday 21 September (midnight)
6. Council will contact you as to whether you have been successful or not in October/November.

WHO CAN APPLY?

• Tenant sports clubs who have a license or seasonal agreement to use a Darebin City Council recreation reserve and/or sporting pavilion.
• Non-tenant sports clubs or sporting organisations based in Darebin Community Sports Stadium or based at private facilities in Darebin
• Sport/recreational clubs, associations or organisations that are an incorporated association or a not for profit organisation.
• Sports clubs that do not have an outstanding debt to Council or utility suppliers.

TIMELINES (ROUND 1)

TIPS FOR USING SMARTY GRANTS ONLINE

You may begin anywhere in this application form. Please ensure you save as you go.

If you need more help using this form, see tips below, contact us or download the Help Guide for Applicants or check out Applicant Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ's)

NAVIGATING (MOVING THROUGH) THE APPLICATION FORM

On every screen (page of the form) you will find a Form Navigation contents box, this links directly to every page of the application. Click the link to jump directly to the page you want.
You can also click 'next page' or 'previous page' on the top or bottom of each page to move forward or backward through the application.

SAVING YOUR DRAFT APPLICATION

If you wish to leave a partially completed application, press 'save and close' and log out. When you log back in and click on the 'My Submissions' link at the top of the screen, you will find a list of any applications you have started or submitted. You can reopen your draft application and start where you left off.

You can also download any application, whether draft or completed, as a PDF. Click on the 'Download PDF' button located at the bottom of the last page of the application form.

SUBMITTING YOUR APPLICATION

You will find a Review and Submit button at the bottom of the Navigation Panel. You need to review your application before you can submit it.

Once you have reviewed your application you can submit it by clicking on 'Submit' at the top or bottom of the screen or on the navigation panel. You will not be able to submit your application until all the compulsory questions are completed and there are no validation errors.

Once you have submitted your application, no further editing or uploading of support materials is possible.

When you submit your application, you will receive a confirmation email with a copy of your submitted application attached. This will be sent to the email you used to register.
If you do not receive a confirmation of submission email then you should presume that your submission has NOT been submitted.
Hint: also check the email hasn’t landed in your spam or junk email folder.

ATTACHMENTS AND SUPPORT DOCUMENTS

You may need to upload/submit attachments to support your application. This is very simple, but requires you to have the documents saved on your computer, or on a storage device.

You need to allow enough time for each file to upload before trying to attach another file. Files can be up to 25MB each; however, we do recommend trying to keep files to a maximum of 5MB – the larger the file, the longer the upload time.

COMPLETING AN APPLICATION IN A GROUP/TEAM

A number of people can work on an application using the same log in details as long as only one person is working at a time. Ensure you save as you go.