Funding Opportunity: Celebrating Reconciliation

Queensland Government

The Celebrating Reconciliation Grants Program provides funding for local communities to host events that encourage participation in National Reconciliation Week.

National Reconciliation Week is a national campaign held annually from 27 May to 3 June, celebrating and building on respectful relationships between Aboriginal, Torres Strait Islander and non-Indigenous peoples. The dates commemorate two significant milestones in the reconciliation journey—the successful 1967 Referendum to change how Aboriginal peoples and Torres Strait Islander peoples were referred to in the Constitution (27 May), and the 1992 High Court Mabo decision (3 June).

The week is an opportunity for all Australians to learn about our shared histories, cultures and achievements and to explore how each of us can join the national reconciliation effort. Reconciliation must live in the hearts, minds and actions of all Australians to create a nation strengthened by respectful relationships.

Objectives

Events and activities need to meet the following program objectives:

• promote and facilitate truth-telling, healing, trust and respectful relationships between non-Indigenous and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples in Queensland
• promote inclusion through strengthening relationships between Aboriginal, Torres Strait Islander and non-Indigenous Queenslanders
• raise community awareness of National Reconciliation Week
• offer community members opportunities to learn, share, and grow, for example, through sharing stories about past events, and showcasing local Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander histories, arts, cultural activities, etc

It is a requirement of the grant program that Aboriginal and/or Torres Islander peoples are included in the design and delivery of the event or activity.

Available Funding

Eligible applicants can apply for grants up to $3,000 (exclusive of GST).

What the grant funding can cover

• staffing capped at 50 per cent of the funding requested (non-recurrent salaries and on-costs including matching of volunteer fees)

• equipment and venue hire
• theming
• materials and supplies
• talent and entertainment
• catering and produce.

What the grant funding cannot cover

• administration and overhead costs

• activities that form part of the organisations core business or are considered routine operations of the applicant
• funding of research, trials, or feasibility studies
• insurances
• prizes or gifts
• alcoholic beverages
• retrospective (past) activities
• capital equipment or works
• activities or goods not directly related to the event (including auspice fees).

The distribution of funding will be at the discretion of the assessment panel. The assessment panel will determine funding allocations based on how applicants address the assessment criteria, the benefit to Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander communities and value for money.

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