Department of Communities Grants Programs

The Aboriginal Employee Housing Grants Program will deliver housing for ACCOs and their Aboriginal employees in the Pilbara and Kimberley.

The Aboriginal Employee Housing Grants Program is now open.

For more information please visit the ACCO Aboriginal Employee Housing Grants Program webpage.

Funding of up to $45,454 (excluding GST) per project is available for eligible Aboriginal not-for-profit or charitable organisations for capability building activities that provide services to Aboriginal children, families, people and communities within WA.

Communities has a total grants budget of $2.6 million to trial the Addressing Family Violence in the Kimberley Grants Program focused on developing place-based family violence interventions in the Kimberley region. Grants are available to Aboriginal Community Controlled Organisations (ACCOs) or organisations working in partnership with an ACCO.

Grants of up to $15,000 are available for local governments and incorporated not-for-profit community organisations to implement age-friendly, active/positive ageing, other seniors-related strategies, and dementia-friendly strategies.

• Download the Age-friendly and Dementia-friendly Communities acquittal form.

Grants of up to $15,000 per project. Available for local governments and incorporated not-for-profit community organisations to implement age-friendly, active and positive ageing, and other seniors-related strategies that focus on challenging ageism, reducing loneliness and improving older people's connections within their local community.

Find out more about the Age Friendly Connectivity Grants Program.

Grants of up to $10,000 are available to increase the availability of all-terrain wheelchairs in National Parks and beaches across Western Australia to support people with disability to connect to their community, participate more actively in community life and recreate in the natural environment.

Funding for local governments in regional areas to deliver retention and attraction workforce packages.

Attraction and Retention Packages for Regional Child Care Workers Program 2024 recipients have been announced. For more information:

• See the 2024 recipients list on the Attraction and Retention Packages for Regional Child Care Workers Program page. 
• See 2024 recipients news story.

Current status: Open. 

Grants of up to $10,000 to assist with the planning, development and implementation of community garden projects across Western Australia.

• For more information, visit the Community Gardens Grants Program page.
• Download the Community Garden Grants Program Acquittal form.

The Community Housing Grants Program will provide $93 million for new and upgraded community housing for hundreds of WA’s most vulnerable people. This includes new housing construction projects and refurbishment works which will create more fit-for-purpose homes to help address the State’s increasing social housing demands, along with specific funding for maintenance works in remote Aboriginal communities.

• Find out more about the Community Housing Grants Program
• See Community Housing Refurbishment Grant recipients list
• See Community Housing New Builds recipients list

Forming part of the Social Housing Economic Recovery Package (SHERP), grants of up to $20,000 are available for Community Housing Organisations (registered and non-registered) to conduct non-urgent maintenance on eligible items in regional locations across Western Australia. Applications close at 2:30pm Monday 1 February 2021.

Grants are available to eligible community housing organisations (including local government authorities) that froze rent payable increases during the entire COVID-19 Emergency Period; or intend to credit tenants/occupants for rent payable increases charged during this period.

Grants of up to $10,000 are available for local governments and community organisations to implement projects that engage young people (10–25 years old) in creative ways and help achieve positive outcomes.

• Download the COVID-19 Youth Recovery Grants acquittal form.
• Download the COVID-19 Youth Recovery Grants recipients list.

One-off grant funding is available through the Family and Domestic Violence Primary Prevention Grants Program 2024/2026 for eligible organisations to deliver activities in their region, over a period of two years, that work towards the prevention of violence against women and their children.

To be eligible to apply for a grant through this Grants Program applicants must be:

• incorporated not-for-profit community organisations,
• local government authorities, or
• unincorporated organisations or community groups, applying through the auspice of an incorporated body or a local government authority.

The Grants program is now closed. 

The Financial Counselling Traineeships Grant Program 2021-2023 will contribute towards the establishment of a training pipeline and the longer-term sustainability of the financial counselling workforce in Western Australia.

Grants of up to $110,000 over two years in metropolitan Perth and Mandurah locations and up to $120,000 over two years in regional locations for each FTE trainee are available for financial counselling services currently funded by the Department for Communities.

The AEDC Grants Program provides grants of up to $100,000 for Local Government Authorities (LGAs) in Western Australia to deliver programs that address the early development needs of young children in their community.

Find out more and download the guidelines and application form on the AEDC Grants Program page.

Grants ranging from $25,000 to $200,000 to provide one-off financial co-contributions towards new initiatives that are identified and led by local governments to respond to and prevent homelessness around Western Australia.

The EOI closed at 2:30pm on Friday, 3 November 2023.

Grant recipients were announced on 27 May 2024. For more information visit Funding to support Early Childhood Education and Care in Regional WA.

Grants of up to $1,000 available for community organisations to host events or activities occurring between 2 - 8 December 2024 in celebration of volunteers for International Volunteer Day (5 December 2024).

For more information, go to the Thank A Volunteer Day page.

• Download previous lists of Thank a Volunteer Day Celebration Grants Program recipients
• Download the Thank a Volunteer Day Grants Program acquittal form.

Grants of up to $5,000 are available for short-term, one-off activities or initiatives of up to six months’ duration, and Grants of up to $10,000 for longer term, community-wide, strategic initiatives (6-12 months).

• Find out more about the Youth Engagement Grants program

The 2024/25 Women’s Grants for a Stronger Future program consists of four separate grant opportunities:

1. Stronger Together Annual Grants Program: Grants up to $10,000 for one-off initiatives.
2. Stronger Together Pilot Projects Grants Program: Grants between $20,000 to $50,000 for pilot projects with a duration of two years that target one or more of the four priority areas of Stronger Together.
3. Stronger Together Women Led Economic Initiatives Grants Program: Grants between $50,000 to $100,000 for women-led, community-based initiatives that focus on driving economic gender equality.
4. Stronger Together Safety and Justice Grants Program: Grants between $100,000 to $250,000 for projects that work towards the primary prevention of violence against women, with a focus on sexual violence and aligning with the Safety and Justice priority area of Stronger Together. 

Find out more about Women's Grants for a Stronger Future.

• Status: open
• Amount: as detailed above
• Open date: 12 July 2024 
• Close date: 16 August 2024 at 2:30pm
• Contact email: grants@communities.wa.gov.au
• Download the Grants for Women acquittal form

The WEAAD Regional Grants Program provides grants of up to $3,000 for regional local governments and registered not for profits to hold WEAAD initiatives during the week of WEAAD to raise awareness of elder abuse. 

• Closing date: 4.00pm on Thursday, 18 April 2024
• To find out more, visit the Department's World Elder Abuse Awareness Day webpage or go to the Northern Suburbs Community Legal Centre (NSCLC) website

Grants of up to $1,500 are available for eligible organisations to deliver a range of projects including (but not limited to) festivals, events, forums, workshops, seminars and talks contributing to the celebration of Youth Week WA 2025.

Grants of up to $3,000 are available for community-wide events, delivered through collaborative community partnerships that are actively involved in the planning and delivery of the project. Activities may include (but are not limited to):

• community-wide youth festivals with multiple organisations hosting activities; and
• programs of multiple events and activities delivered throughout Youth Week WA 2025.

Apply and find out more on the Youth Week WA Grants page.