Local government and community groups

• Remote Area Board Program supports Queensland’s five Remote Area Boards to deliver impactful projects that strengthen remote communities and drive economic growth. Closes 28 November 2025.
• Strengthening Communities Multicultural Grants program provides funding towards multicultural projects that engage culturally and linguistically diverse communities, groups and individuals, and the broader community, to partner and contribute to building an inclusive, harmonious and united Queensland. Applications close 18 November 2025.
• Secure Communities Partnership Program offers funding to support safety measures to deter crime against small and family businesses and create safer and more vibrant business areas. Round 2 applications are now open for small and family businesses to implement crime prevention measures (closing 30 January 2026), with applications for local councils opening in early 2026.
• Celebrating Multicultural Queensland Program provides funding towards multicultural events that engage culturally and linguistically diverse communities, groups and individuals, and the broader community, to partner and contribute to building an inclusive, harmonious and united Queensland. Closes 13 December 2025.
• Queensland Justice Reinvestment Grants will support community-based projects that help keep Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders peoples out of the justice system. The grant program takes a justice reinvestment approach, funding projects that are place-based and guided by community knowledge, experience and cultural understanding. Opens 24 November 2025 and closes 21 December 2025.
• Let’s Get it Sorted Partnership Program provides funding for groups of geographically aligned Queensland councils, or lead councils for a Queensland region, to engage a behaviour change coordinator to develop and deliver waste education and behaviour change intervention activities for households.
• Snapshot Climate tool provides greenhouse gas emissions profiles for Australian councils (local government areas), regions, federal electorates, states and territories which are free to download.