Brisbane City Council's Lord Mayor's Community Fund (previously known as the Lord Mayor's Suburban Initiative Fund) supports community projects that build stronger communities in Brisbane.

Projects must contribute to the Brisbane Vision by helping achieve our aspirations to be a:

• friendly and safe
• active and healthy
• clean and green, or
• vibrant and creative city.

Grant amount

The LMCF allocation for each Ward will be published on Council’s website. The program also includes an allocation for the Lord Mayor in support of projects of benefit to multiple wards across Brisbane.

The minimum grant amount is $250 (GST exclusive).

The maximum grant funding amount is $10,000 (GST exclusive) per community organisation per financial year, except where a community organisation is applying on behalf of another community organisation (as an auspice of the community organisation).

The maximum allocation for Councillors is $10,000 per community project.

Applications will close at midnight on Friday 13 June 2025, or when each ward had spent their allocated budget (whichever is sooner).

Eligible projects include projects such as:

• community events including:
  • Australia Day ceremonies
  • fetes
  • events that charge an entry fee (e.g. fundraiser with a cover charge or festivals with a site entry fee)
• equipment hired for a community event
• community facility improvements and equipment
• funding towards community sporting organisations equipment and activities within a ward.

Who can apply?

A Councillor may use funds from the LMCF in any of the following ways:

• to spend on a community purpose
• to allocate for certain capital works of Council that are for a community purpose, but only with the prior approval from the Establishment and Coordination Committee (E&C)
• to allocate to a community organisation for a community purpose.

Eligible community projects must comply with all of the following.

1. Be for a community purpose.
2. Meet these guidelines of the LMCF program.
3. Identify the community benefit of the funding.
4. Identify additional funding support or in-kind support to be provided.
5. Contribute towards achieving one or more of the themes of Brisbane Vision 2031 and meet at least one LMCF priority.
6. Be implemented within 12 months of the date on the approval letter, unless otherwise agreed in writing by the responsible Councillor.
7. Be undertaken within the relevant Ward boundary and be of benefit to the local community (a community project may be considered for funding in another Ward within the Brisbane local government area subject to written approval from that Ward’s Councillor).
8. Not be used for operational funding of the community organisation or the Councillor’s Ward Office.
9. Applications must provide:
   1. evidence that the project is realistic with regard to the following:
      1. aims and objectives of application
      2. timeframes
      3. support from the community
      4. budget
      5. additional costs/in-kind costs
   2. evidence that the funding demonstrates benefits for the community
   3. project budget details and clearly indicate how the grant funding is to be spent (i.e. a description of ‘contribution or sponsorship towards an event/project’ is not an adequate level of detail).

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