Frequently Asked Questions
All ideas that satisfy the Terms & Conditions and demonstrate a strong community benefit will be considered.
Ideas that have been accepted to the voting stage will be communicated to all participants before voting begins.
We know it can be hard to estimate the cost of an idea. We just ask that you make your best effort to estimate costings and our Finance Team will check and update all costs before the voting stage.
We request that only one application per person or community organisation/club/association be submitted.
Yes. But only one submission per community group or sporting association is permitted.
No, for this program we are only looking for ideas and projects that can be delivered by Council.
Merri-bek does have other grant and funding programs which you can read more about on our website.