This funding empowers groups to make a difference in their community.

Ergon Energy want ideas that will genuinely provide a positive and long-lasting benefit, and put their  communities on the front foot for the future. But all ideas can be big, even those that seem simple or small. As long as your idea provides lasting benefits to your community they want to hear about it.

Your idea could be something that:

• contributes to disaster recovery or resilience
• encourages community health and wellbeing, or cultural reconnection
• is innovative
• showcases solutions to problems we face as a society through support for:
  • education and energy literacy
  • energy and environmental conservation
  • electrical safety
  • providing essential equipment
  • renewable energy projects
  • upgrading facilities

Grant amount

Grants on offer up to $10,000 and this year.

What types of projects are eligible?

Projects must be able to be completed within 12 months of receiving a grant.

Eligible projects include those that:

• Contribute to recovery efforts following natural disasters and the pandemic
• Bolster long-term resilience and prepare the community for Queensland’s storm season and other events by producing storm kits, upgrading first aid equipment, installing storm shutters, and installing a generator with a changeover or running information programs
• Use, inform or promote renewable energy alternatives eg. solar, wind, hydro and biomass
• Identify ways to educate consumers around energy consumption e.g. energy audits, new technology ideas or energy literacy programs
• Strive to improve mental and emotional wellbeing and inclusion in schools, workplaces and the general community by providing support through events or educational programs
• Keep the community safe around electricity eg. by organising a wiring safety check, or upgrading the switchboard and installing new electrical wiring
• Help grow industry or recover economic activity in your community and create a more resilient community
• Provide other lasting benefits to the local community such as educational kids programs, or providing critical community based equipment or facility upgrades.

All projects will be considered. If your idea provides some other kind of lasting community benefit than those listed above, you can still apply.

Your idea could be something that:

• contributes to disaster recovery or resilience
• encourages community health and wellbeing
• is innovative
• showcases solutions to problems we face as a society through support for:
  • education
  • energy and environmental conservation
  • electrical safety
  • providing essential equipment
  • renewable energy projects
  • upgrading facilities

You must be an incorporated not-for-profit or like organisation to be eligible for the fund. Previous applicants and grant recipients are also eligible to reapply. You can be based anywhere in Australia, however, your project must be undertaken within Queensland.

Eligible groups include:

• Community groups
• Local government or other government entities
• Educational institutions
• Charities
• Sporting clubs
• Industry or business associations
• Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander organisations.

• Email: communityfund@ergon.com.au