Community support

On 24 March, Council announced a CBCity Cares Relief Package. This is an 18 point plan, designed to offer relief and support to our community, both residents and businesses. Community support On 24 March, Council announced a CBCity Cares Relief Package. This is an 18 point plan, designed to offer relief and support to our community, both residents and businesses. News Columns; News and Updates

On 24 March, Council announced a CBCity Cares Relief Package. This is an 18 point plan, designed to offer relief and support to our community, both residents and businesses.

To find out more on the support for businesses, please visit our Business section.

The support for our non-business community is listed below.

On this page...

• Fees for facilities and Services
• Community Grants
• Community Support Services

Fees for Facilities and Services

If you have paid a fee or membership for one of our facilities that has closed due to COVID-19, we will hold the fee in credit or provide refunds for Not-for-Profits, casual hirers or those with genuine cases of hardship.

Examples of this include Council's Learn to Swim Program, children's ninja playgroup and gym memberships.

Where users are cancelling their use of facilities owing to appropriate social distancing and Coronavirus, such as meeting rooms, sporting fields or community halls, Council will similarly hold a credit or provide a refund.

To find out more call 97079000.

Community Grants

In response to COVID-19 Council ran "Helping You Help Others" which was an advance of the 2020-21 grants program to provide flexible financial assistance to eligible not for profit community groups to support the provision of programs and services that:

Provide crisis and emergency relief services to people currently experiencing hardship and are at risk of becoming entrenched in disadvantage due to the crisis, People newly experiencing hardship as a result of COVID-19 and; Those that are most at risk of serious infection (immune compromised, older people, diagnosed chronic medical conditions, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples) and;
Enable community organisations to continue to deliver their services via alternative delivery models.

55 applications have been adopted to receive $221,668.

The remainder of the 2020-2021 Community Grants and Event Sponsorship Program has been suspended due to COVID-19.

For more information, call Tony Smith, Coordinator Community Planning and Development on 9707 9540.