To be eligible for Lotterywest support, a grant request must be:

• for charitable or benevolent purposes with outcomes that align with one of our COVID-19 Relief Fund streams. 
• directly related to your organisation’s purpose. Quick tip: You can check the ‘objects’ or ‘purpose’ in your organisation’s constitution or rules
• taking place in WA, or be of direct benefit to the WA community

The following can be supported through this funding program:

Crisis and Emergency Relief

Costs related to increased demand for emergency relief (ER) services as a result of COVID-19 and/or to support recovery through time-limited interventions such as:

• food, blankets, homelessness support, transport, essential pharmaceuticals and essential personal items such as clothing
• utility payments where they cannot be covered by existing hardship schemes
• coordination and collaboration costs to deliver ER services
• costs related to connecting people to other relevant services to avoid entrenched disadvantage and to overcome barriers to accessing new opportunities

Prevention and Early Intervention (applications are now closed)

Project costs and resources related to:

• Time-limited prevention and early intervention initiatives and innovations to minimise the secondary impacts of COVID-19 and/or support recovery related to socio-economic disadvantage, family and domestic violence (FDV), mental health and homelessness
• Time-limited initiatives that work to help protect and prepare vulnerable parts of the WA community from a potential second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic
• Initiatives that are complementary to other government funded interventions and welfare services.
• Infrastructure to help achieve program outcomes. 

For more general information about what Lotterywest can and can't support, please visit the What can be supported page.