Cultivating Community Gardens Grants
Brisbane City Council's Cultivating Community Gardens Grants provide funding to local non-profit community-based groups and organisations to establish, develop and/or maintain community gardens on Council-owned and other land.
Funding
Funding amounts range from $1000 to $2500.
Funding round dates
Applications for this grant are closed.
How to apply
For more information about these grants, your eligibility, and how to apply please read the Cultivating the Community Grants guidelines.
Eligibility
Two recent quotes for goods and services over $1000 will need to be provided at time of application.
Written support from you Regional Council Coordinator for projects on Council land, or from the Landowner on non-Council land, must be provided at the time of application.
An applicant should be an incorporated not-for-profit organisation.
An unincorporated not-for-profit organisation or community group may also apply, sponsored by an incorporated not-for-profit organisation able to accept legal and financial responsibility for the applicant's project.
Applicants must not have any overdue Council grant acquittals, or outstanding debts with Council.
Acquittal reports for successful applicants
If your application is successful you will be required to complete your project and submit an online acquittal form within 12 months of the grant notification.
Grant recipients with overdue acquittal reports are not eligible to apply for further grants.
If you believe your organisation may have an outstanding acquittal report from a project, phone Council on 07 3403 8888.
Grant recipients
The following Cultivating Community Gardens Grants projects were approved in 2023-24 under the Lord Mayor's Community, Sustainability and Environmental Grants Program.
Successful grant recipients receive funding to establish, develop and maintain community gardens in the Brisbane City Council area.
Organisation | Project Title | Amount Approved |
|---|---|---|
Hands on Projects | Ashgrove Green Corner Community Garden | $1,748.00 |
The Corporation of the Synod of the Diocese of | Watson Street potager project - garden beds | $2,500.00 |
Yoorala Street Community Garden Inc | Work Smarter not Harder | $2,225.00 |
B4C -Bulimba Creek Catchment Coordinating Committee Inc | Garden Themed Workshops at Carindale | $2,500.00 |
Bulimba Community Centre | Community Garden - Shed Installation | $2,251.81 |
Wynnum Manly Community Gardens Group | Community Garden consumables | $2,750.00 |
Hands on Projects | Jeays Street Community Garden Maintenance | $1,160.00 |
Hands on Projects Ltd | Chapel Hill Community Garden - Fruit Trees | $2,198.85 |
Salisbury Community Garden | Development of Food Forest and Garden Improvements | $2,388.00 |
Gabba Hill Community Garden Inc | Workshop Series | $2,450.00 |
Yeronga Community Gardens | Construction of Wicking Beds | $1,908.06 |
Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Brisbane | The Lime Tree Community Gardening Program | $2,274.00 |
More information
For more information and before you commence your application phone Council on 07 3403 8888 to enquire about this grant program.
You can also contact Council via:
- the National Relay Service (including video and Auslan relay), or
- Speak and Listen users phone 1300 555 727 then ask for 07 3403 8888
- by phoning Translating and Interpreting Service on 131 450 and asking to be connected with Brisbane City Council on 07 3403 8888.