Financial Assistance

Council provides financial assistance to not-for-profit community groups and organisations to assist them to undertake worthwhile community projects.
Financial assistance will be provided on the basis of the relative merits of each application and the benefits to the community provided by the project/activities of the organisation.
All requests are to be submitted on the Financial Assistance Program Application form.
There are three categories of financial Assistance:

1. Recurrent
Council provides recurrent financial assistance to the following organisations:

• Lithgow Show Society
• Ironfest Festival
• Celebrate Lithgow/Lithgow Business Awards
• Western Region Academy of Sport annual training camp
• White Ribbon Day
• Solid Fuel Incentive to Community
• Portland Art Show
• Tidy Towns All Areas
• Lithgow Golf Club
• Portland Golf Club
• Lithgow Information and Neighbourhood Centre Rental Assistance
• Schools within Council’s area will be provided an amount of $50 per school per annum as a contribution towards end of year academic prizes, for which no application will be required;

2. Non-Recurrent Financial Assistance
Council will call for applications for Round 1 non-recurrent financial assistance from 1st to 29th  April 2011 and Round 2 from 1st to 31st October 2011. This financial assistance will be made available in July 2011 and December 2011 respectively. Those organisations which missed out in Round 1 may apply again in Round 2.

3. Waiving of Council Fees and Charges
Organisations may submit requests for the waiving of Council fees and charges throughout the year.

Downloads

Policy 4.4 Financial Assistance - Section 356 of the Local Government Act

Application Form - PDF

Application Form - Word document