he Aboriginal Community Safety Grants supports the First Action Plan 2023-2027 under the National Plan to End Violence against Women and Children 2022-2032. It aims to strengthen services for victim-survivors and increase funding for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander organisations, in line with Closing the Gap Priority Reform areas. The grant program will also align to the focus areas of the upcoming NSW Aboriginal DFSV Plan to support the Aboriginal community-controlled sector and Aboriginal service providers to implement initiatives. The implementation of the grant program will support self-determination, community capacity building and economic uplift.
Aboriginal Community Safety Grant Projects are to assist with:
- self-determination by empowering Aboriginal communities to lead and deliver services,
- early intervention of Domestic, Family and Sexual Violence (DFSV),
- primary prevention of DFSV
- healing and recovery for victim-survivors,
- responding and creating safety for Aboriginal individual, families, and communities.
Who the grant is targeted towards
The NSW Aboriginal Community Safety grant program will provide grants to support projects focusing on the following Aboriginal groups:
- Women and girls
- Victims/survivors of domestic/family violence
- Victims/survivors of sexual violence
- Children and young people
- LGBTIQA+ (Brotherboys and Sistergirls)
- Elders
- Rural and remote communities
- People who use violence
- People with disability
- Men and boys.
Eligibility
- Who can apply
- To be eligible to apply for the grant program you must be:
- a not-for-profit Aboriginal Community Controlled Organisation (ACCO) which includes
- Indigenous Corporations (must be registered with the Office of the Registrar of Indigenous Corporations);
- the NSW Aboriginal Land Council (NSWALC);
- Aboriginal Health & Medical Research Council of NSW (AH&MRC);
- National Aboriginal Community-Controlled Health Organisation (NACCHO), or
- an Aboriginal specific organisation or sole provider (at least 50% owned and run), or
- Aboriginal business working with Aboriginal communities in NSW, or
- a not-for-profit non-Aboriginal organisation partnering with a lead ACCO or Aboriginal business.
And one of the following organisation types, in a partnership with an Aboriginal organisation (for non-Aboriginal agencies):
- incorporated organisation registered and approved as not-for-profit body by NSW Fair Trading
- not-for profit company limited by guarantee, registered in NSW (must have the ACNC Charity Register and/or DGR status)
- religious organisation operating in NSW
- NSW Local Council operating under the Local Government Act 1993
- NSW non-government organisation established under their own Act of Parliament.
Projects must take place within NSW, and applicants must deliver a service to Aboriginal communities within NSW.
