This grant provides Sporting team sponsorship at regional, state or national level.

Wiri Yuwiburra Community Benefits Trust has developed a range of Grant Programs to support and assist Aboriginal Group beneficiaries in alignment with the Trust Deed and its objectives.

The Team Sport Sponsorship grant can be applied for twice per calendar year per team.

The Community Benefits Program offers funding to eligible applicants for the below types of projects or activities that provide community benefits:

• Cultural Health and Wellbeing
• Funeral and/or Tombstone assistance 
• Individual Representative Sport
• Team Sport Sponsorship

General Eligibility

The Trust is governed by a Trust Deed. To be eligible to apply for a grant, the applicant must be a "Beneficiary".

A Beneficiary is:

• Any Wiri, Yuwiburra and Barada Barna Peoples, regardless of residential status.
• Any member of the broader Birri Gubba Nation resident in the Agreement Area.

Specific guidelines and information that relate to this area of funding are as follows:

• This program area is open to sporting teams that have a majority of athletes and officials who are eligible Beneficiaries.
• The team must be managed and/or captained by an eligible Beneficiary.
• Financial assistance may be requested for expenses such as transport to and from the event, nomination fees, uniforms, equipment, etc.
• The Trust will pay for expenses directly to the sponsoring organisation and/or suppliers if an application is approved. If expenses are already paid, the Trust may, at their discretion, reimburse the payee into their bank account.
• Any other sources of funding received for the team must be declared.
• One (1) application must be completed per team by the team's manager (e.g. one (1) for a male team and one (1) for a female team).
• An application may be made for a one-off event or multiple events; however, the team is limited to two (2) approved grant applications per calendar year.

• Phone: 0499 992 865
• Email: admin@wycbt.org.au