Local Partnership Grants

The Commission has introduced local partnership grants in order to focus particularly on new and emerging communities. This will enable the Commission to work in partnership with local government councils to address the needs of newly-arrived and emerging communities.

Local partnership grants enable local government councils to enter into a partnership agreement with the Commission to address the specific needs of a newly-arrived or emerging community. Under this program, the Commission may enter into an agreement with the council where the Commission pays for the salary of a community worker to work with identified communities in an identified local government area, with local councils providing office space and related administrative support.

Typical grants would be $20,000 for a part-time or $60,000 for a full-time worker and agreements would be for a maximum period of up to three years.