Step 1: Check if you meet the criteria
Check to see if Lotterywest can support your organisation and idea.
Find out if you're eligible
Discover what can be supported
Consider the timing
Step 2: Prepare for success
Learn more about how to give your idea the best chance of success.
Understand our assessment criteria
Plan your Initiative for impact
Get your documents together
Consider our application tips
Call us to discuss your idea
Contact our Grants team on 133 777 to discuss your idea, whether it’s big or small.
Step 3: Begin your application
Follow the below steps to register your organisation and submit an application.
Register your organisation before you apply
Apply online
The outcome of your application
If you’re a legal signatory or contact person for a current Lotterywest and/or Healthway supported organisation, you would have been sent an email with your username and instructions on how to set up a password.
If you’re a new representative for an existing grantee organisation, or if you’re registering a new organisation, please follow the instructions on this how-to guide. It will take up to two business days for new users to be granted access.
You can:
- request a new Lotterywest or Healthway grant.
- update your organisation’s details including adding governance documents, annual reports and financial statements.
- view your organisation’s grant history, including past and current grant requests.
- submit amendment requests for current grants.
- report on your grant, including submitting progress and final acquittal reports.
- view upcoming payments for active grants.
- click here to view a how-to guide.
Please call us if you plan to make multiple applications in a year so we can work with you on how best to do this.
You can find an example of the Lotterywest Grant Request Form here. When you are ready to apply and have logged in to the Grants Portal you will find the Request Form under the heading ‘Request Funding’.
Your application will be assessed by our team against the assessment criteria and a recommendation is then made to the Lotterywest Board.
A typical grant process looks like this:
- Seek information via Lotterywest website
- Talk with us about your proposal
- Gather your requirements and necessary documentation
- Develop and submit your request
- Assessment, including referee checks and any follow up conversation and requests for information from you
- Our internal review and recommendation to the Board
- Board meeting and review
- Recommendation to the Minister responsible for Lotterywest (the Premier)
- Application decision and written advice to you
- Grant payment
- Sharing your good news
- Evaluation, reporting and acquittal
All organisations are required to agree to the standard Lotterywest Conditions of Grant which needs to be signed upfront for every application.
Further conditions specific to your grant may also apply. These are communicated in the grant approval letter. Please refer to the Grant Approval Schedule. An example is available here.
Lotterywest grant conditions and documents must be signed by the persons legally able to enter into contracts on behalf of your organisation. We refer to these persons as the legal signatories.
Where your Organisation is an incorporated or unincorporated association, this document must be signed by the Chairperson/President of the Organisation and another committee member.
Where your Organisation is a company/corporation, this document is signed in accordance with section 127 of the Corporations Act 2001 or section 99.5 of the Corporations (Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander) Act 2006 (whichever is applicable) by:
(a) two Directors; or
(b) a Director and a Company Secretary; or
(c) as our company/corporation has only one Director, that Director
Your organisation’s legal signatory may choose to give this responsibility to someone else within your organisation - we refer to this person as the ‘Delegated Authority’. If this is the case for your organisation, you need to complete our Delegated Signing Authority Form. A copy is available here.
Please note: you only need to complete this form once and it will remain on our records for future grant applications. You will only need to complete this form again if your legal signatory or ‘Delegated Authority’ changes.
Lotterywest provides written advice on the outcome of all applications. If your grant is approved, we will advise you of payment arrangements and our requirements for reporting on the grant and acquitting (accounting for) the funds. This information is detailed in the Grant Approval Schedule. You can track the status of your application in the Grants Portal.