Grants

Young Queenslanders aged 12–25 can apply for grant funding to design and deliver impactful community events during Queensland Youth Week 2026 (11–19 April 2026).

These grants aim to empower young people to showcase their skills, achievements, and contributions to their communities.

Quick Response Grants aim to support small arts or cultural projects that cannot be funded by other means because of their nature or timing. Regional Arts Fund grant funds may be used toward the cost of producing the project including but not limited to:

• artist fees (artists should be appropriately paid)
• travel costs (including international)
• materials
• venue hire
• equipment hire
• insurance
• project administrative costs
• disability access costs

Arts and Culture Partnerships ( Community Organisations)

Provides grant funding for the development and/or presentation of new work to build capacity and capability of arts organisations, professional or emerging professional artists and arts workers in partnership with Council’s arts and cultural presentation team.

Open all year. This grant is for venue hire and resources only.

Various Australian Government funding opportunties from Dept of Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development and Communications.

Currently open but not limited to below.  Follow the link for full current listings.

• Arts Sustainability Fund
• Australian Lending Right Schemes
• Restart Investment to Sustain and Expand (RISE)
• Indigneous Languages and Arts program
• Show Starter Loan Scheme
• National Collecting Institutions Touring and Outreach Program
• Indigenous Contemporary Music
• Festivals Australia
• Australian Government International Exhibitions Insurance Program
• Visions Australia
• Indigenous Visual Arts Industry Support Program
• Live Music Australia
• Community Heritage Grants
• Maritime Museums of Australia Project Support Scheme
• National Cultural Heritage Account

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Business Growth Fund Program

The Business Growth Fund (BGF) is a grant program targeting high-growth businesses who can accelerate growth, drive Queensland’s economy and employ more Queenslanders.

The program provides direct financial support for small and family businesses to purchase specialised equipment to grow, increase productivity and efficiency, increase market share or develop and expand export opportunities.

$50,000-$75,000

30 January 2026

The objective of the  for commercialisation and growth projects. Commercialisation and Growth grants are for innovative projects that are in prototyping through to market-readiness stages.

Activities include:

• developing strategies for entering the market
• accelerating growth
• scaling up into national and international markets.

The National Commissioner for Defence and Veteran Suicide Prevention (National Commissioner) has been established to inquire into suicides of serving and former Australian Defence Force members.

The Australian Government is funding legal financial assistance to individuals and entities to assist with meeting the costs of legal representation and disbursements associated with engaging with the National Commissioner.

Capital Grants Program

The Capital Grants Program provides Catholic and independent schools with appropriate funding to help them improve school infrastructure through capital expenditure.

The Capital Grants Program provides funding to non-government primary and secondary school communities to improve infrastructure, if they do not have enough capital resources. Capital grants are additional to funds provided by state and territory governments, non-government school authorities, and school communities, which are responsible for providing and maintaining non-government school facilities.

If your small or family business has been impacted by crime in the last 3 years, you may be eligible for funding for critical safety upgrades for your business.
Grants are available to fund critical safety upgrades such as:
• alarm systems
• surveillance
• improved lighting.

If your business has fewer than 20 employees, an annual turnover of $10 million or less, and has been significantly affected by crime in the last 3 years, you may be eligible.

The program objective is to strengthen the conservation and protection of Australia’s environmental and cultural values through establishing and managing IPAs. The program also contributes to social and economic benefits for First Nations people.

From research to large-scale deployment, ARENA funding spans the entire innovation chain. We accelerate the affordability of new technologies and build investor confidence in renewable energy projects now and into the future.

Funding streams are currently available for :-

• Advancing Renewables Program (ARP)  – Ongoing
• Regional Australia Microgrid Pilots Program – Open
• Research and Development  – Subject to Availabilty
• Clean Energy Innovation Fund – Ongoing

The Purves Environmental Fund enables and empowers others to work together to achieve meaningful impact in the areas of environmental sustainability and biodiversity

PEF aim to support advocacy and or or innovative initiatives that aim to mitigate or prevent biodiversity loss from destruction of the habitat. In particular, we endeavour to support initiatives aimed at:

Managing invasive species
Stopping broad-scale tree-clearing
Protecting wilderness areas.
Capacity Building of Key NGOs

PEF aim to support key important environmental NGOs become financially sustainable by helping them build and strengthen their financial capacity, and also seek to empower future leaders of environmental movement and conservation through training or employment.

Climate Change Adaptation

PEF aim to support advocacy and or or initiatives that aim to promote adaptation to impacts of climate change, in particular matters that seek to improve the management of our scarce water resources and the transition to climate-friendly food production.

PEF look to support initiatives that aim to make real change led by organisations that have outstanding leaders and strong management teams. Projects of particular interest are those that can demonstrate (if successful) they will bring about tangible benefits for the environment.

Up to $50,000

Total Pool Undisclosed

The purpose of this grant opportunity is to support patients from two population groups who face extra costs associated with fertility preservation:

• people who require fertility treatment, including fertility preservation, due to a cancer diagnosis, and
• people at risk of passing on genetic conditions who have undergone pre-implantation genetic testing funded by the Medicare Benefit Schedule (MBS),

Ongoing

The purpose of the program is to provide small to medium First Nations arts organisations with one-off capacity building investment to assist with program and artistic delivery and/or operations to the end of 2026.

The program will support arts organisations or organisations that deliver services in support of First Nations arts and culture activity.

This program provides a staged approach to assist mature Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander businesses and innovators to grow, while also providing a framework and guidance for success.

This Award is offered in memory of Les Murray AM, the iconic sports broadcaster and much-loved host of The World Game on SBS television. Les was a refugee who fled Hungary in 1956, eventually reaching safety in Australia. He used his public profile and his own refugee experience to advocate for refugee rights.

The winner receives $10,000, generously donated by SBS, in recognition of their work in the arts, sports or media to promote positive awareness and understanding of refugees.

Regional Futures – Collaborative Projects

The Collaborative Projects program supports regional innovation leaders to collaborate with partners to unlock Queensland’s economic potential, whether by solving a significant problem or creating an opportunity for the regions.

A collaborative project should aim to:

• provide tangible benefits to regional communities
• support regional strengths and/or emerging industries
• realise potential and remove barriers targeting issues of regional significance
• increase the regional ecosystem’s capability and contribute to its future prosperity and resilience.
  The program is part of the Queensland Government’s new $5 million Advance Queensland Regional Futures initiative, and has been developed with learnings from Advancing Regional Innovation Program (ARIP)

Providing low interest loans to assist you into primary production.

A First Start Loan offers up to $2 million to aspiring producers ready to purchase their first block of land, carry out the family succession plan or achieve standalone viability.

As Australia’s longest running and most prestigious tech innovation awards, the iAwards can help take your innovation to new heights and give it national and international recognition.

The key goal of the iAwards is to discover, recognise and reward the ICT innovations that have the potential to, or are already having a positive impact on the community – at home, in the office and on a global scale.

The DECRA grant opportunity provides focused research support for early career researchers in both teaching and research, and research-only positions.

The intended outcome of the Discovery Program is to contribute to the growth of Australia’s research and innovation capacity. Increasing Australia’s research and innovation capacity generates new knowledge and results in the development of new technologies, products and ideas, the creation of jobs, economic growth and an enhanced quality of life in Australia.

The Airservices Australia Enroute Charges Payment Scheme (program) commenced on 1 January 2002 and was introduced against the background of the collapse of Ansett on September 12, 2001 to assist in ensuring the continuation of air services to regional Australia.

The aim of the program is to provide regional and remote communities with access to essential air services that can in turn connect these smaller communities with the rest of Australia. The Scheme supports regional commercial airlines operating low volume and new routes to regional and remote communities; as well as aeromedical providers.

The Government’s policy for aviation encourages the growth of regional aviation services across Australia and the expansion of the current network by giving impetus for operators to test whether a new route can be commercially viable in time.

Backing the Future is an exciting grant initiative that provides funding up to $50,000 for individuals to test new ideas aimed at improving the lives of young people across remote, rural, and regional NSW and QLD.

• Benefit young people aged 12-30 in remote, rural, or regional NSW or QLD;
• Address one of the four VFFF focus areas (Decent Work, Caring for the Environment, Contributing to Society, or Exploring Christian Faith and Values); and
• Be a new idea or project.