Grants for communities affected by the selection of the National Radioactive Waste Management Facility

You are not eligible to apply if you are:

• an organisation, or your project partner is an organisation, included on the National Redress Scheme’s website on the list of ‘Institutions that have not joined or signified their intent to join the Scheme’ (www.nationalredress.gov.au)
• an employer of 100 or more employees that has not complied with the Workplace Gender Equality Act (2012)
• an individual
• partnership
• any organisation not included in section 4.1 of the guidelines
• trust (however, an incorporated trustee may apply on behalf of a trust)
• a Commonwealth or state government agency or body (including government business enterprises).

We assess your application against the eligibility criteria and then against the assessment criteria. Only eligible applications will proceed to the assessment stage.

The amount of detail and supporting evidence you provide in your application should be relative to the project size, complexity and grant amount requested. You should define, quantify and provide evidence to support your answers. The sample application form displays character limits.

The program delegate will make the final decision.

We will only award funding to applications that score highly (at least 50%) against all assessment criteria, as these represent best value for money.

• Assessment criterion 1 Capacity and capability to carry out the project (40 points)
• Assessment criterion 2 The benefit to the community the project will achieve (40 points)
• Assessment criterion 3 Impact of grant funding on your project (20 points).

If your application is successful, you’ll receive a written offer. If you are unsuccessful, we’ll notify you in writing and give you the chance to discuss the outcome with us.

Successful applicants must enter into a grant agreement with the Commonwealth. The grant agreement will specify the reporting requirements, payment schedule and milestones necessary to receive payments.

We’ll make the first payment when the grant agreement is executed. We’ll make subsequent payments after we have received and accepted the required report. We set aside a minimum of 10% of the total grant funding for the final payment. We’ll pay this when you submit a satisfactory final report.

Payments will be made by direct credit into a nominated bank account.