Grant opportunities
Our aim is to provide impactful community grants that leave an enduring positive impact for WA.
Our Community Investment Framework and its five priority areas guide our grant making, keeping us on track to achieve our vision.
1. Inclusive thriving community:
Providing support and assistance to organisations that support the diversity of Western Australians, ensuring that more people have a sense of belonging in their community, and vulnerability and disadvantage are reduced.
The key outcomes for this priority area are:
- More people have a stronger sense of belonging in their community.
- Vulnerability and disadvantage are reduced across our community.
- Raised community connection and participation.
2. Connected cultural experiences:
Supporting organisations that connect people through arts and culture, respect Indigenous heritage, and preserve WA’s cultural legacy.
The key outcomes for this priority area are:
- Our community is connected through arts and cultural activities.
- Indigenous heritage and culture are respected, acknowledged and embraced.
- Cultural heritage is shared and preserved.
3. Protected sustainable ecosystems:
Supporting our community to protect and restore unique species and environments, care for natural heritage, and reduce environmental impact.
The key outcomes for this priority area are:
- Our community is connected with, and cares for, our natural heritage.
- Ecosystems and endangered species are protected and restored.
- Our community's impact on the environment and animals is reduced.
4. Smart innovative society:
Supporting organisations which help optimise our community’s talent and capability, to ensure Western Australia is a leader in new thinking and innovation, knowledge and capability is shared, and talent is attracted to and retained in WA.
The key outcomes for this priority area are:
- Western Australia is a leader in new thinking and innovation.
- Knowledge and capability are shared for the benefit of our community.
- Talent is attracted to and retained in Western Australia.
5. Active healthy people:
Assisting our community to be more active and support initiatives which promote healthy lifestyles (delivered in partnership with Healthway).
Indicators we look for to see the state of WA’s health are:
- Self-assessed health status of individuals
- Healthy life expectancy
- Psychological distress
- Overall life satisfaction
The key outcomes for this priority area are:
- More Western Australians live healthy lifestyles.
- More Western Australians are mentally healthy.
Support for Aboriginal people
Arts and Culture Infrastructure Program
Call us to discuss your idea
Contact our Grants team on 133 777 to discuss your idea, whether it’s big or small.
Learning opportunities
Lotterywest runs regular workshops, webinars and learning opportunities to support grant applicants to design impactful initiatives and write effective grant applications.
For more information, check out the Community Impact Hub’s Learning Opportunities page, or email the Community Impact Hub team at community.impacthub@lotterywest.wa.gov.au.
You are an eligible organisation if you’re:
- a not-for-profit organisation (i.e. none of the profits go to owners or shareholders); or
- a local government authority.
Smaller not-for-profits may prefer to be auspiced by an eligible organisation. Contact us for more information if you are considering this approach.
Your organisation also needs to:
- be an Australian entity and operating within Western Australia;
- not be operating on behalf of the State or Federal Government;
- have the authority to undertake the proposed grant activities; or
- have an organisational structure that does not allow for the distribution of profit or personal gain during operation and/or in the event of wind up.
Lotterywest can support initiatives with outcomes that link to the Community Investment Framework. The initiative must also result in public benefit for the WA community.
Grants can be used to support income-generating activities if they are working towards an outcome in the Community Investment Framework and have a clear public benefit.
There are a few constraints to what we support. These include:
- Initiatives outside Western Australia
- Retrospective, contingency or on-going operational costs
- Religious activities (although welfare and community service activities of faith-based groups can be funded)
- General or competitive activities of sporting clubs or codes
- Initiatives that are core business of other government agencies
- Permanent capital works structure on Crown land (unless a secure long-term lease or equivalent is provided to an eligible entity)
- Construction projects that are not ‘shovel ready’ at the time the grant is awarded
- Replacement of assets previously funded with a Lotterywest grant
- Initiatives that are not considered affordable or accessible to the general public.
- Grant requests that do not reflect, or are contrary to, Lotterywest's Good Practice Requirements.
In addition, given Lotterywest’s significant annual statutory allocation to the Department of Health and the Department’s Future Health Research and Innovation Fund, support for medical and health research and its translation and/or dissemination is not eligible for Lotterywest support.
Initiatives that are core business of government will not be supported.
Given the range and complexity of potential arrangements organisations may have with government agencies, we encourage organisations to discuss their grant application with us before applying.
Getting clear on what you’re trying to achieve, and how to do it, will give you the best chance possible of a successful grant project.
Our online Community Impact Planner has three tools to help you plan your project and present it to others.The planner will help you understand your vision, plan your impact and report on the outcomes of your project.
If you would like some dedicated project design support, please get in touch with the Knowledge and Insights team at community.impacthub@lotterywest.wa.gov.au