Up to $300,000 to support community, disaster readiness, arts, culture, sport and recreation infrastructure including hubs, galleries, playgrounds, pools, and multipurpose or capital equipment facilities.
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What is the Clubgrants Category 3 Infrastructure Grants (CCIG)?
The NSW Government has announced the 2025–26 rounds of the Clubgrants Category 3 Infrastructure Grants, delivering targeted funding to support the building, renovation, and fit-out of community infrastructure across NSW. Backed by gaming machine profits from NSW registered clubs, this program reinvests funds where they’re needed most: into community assets that boost resilience, culture, sport, and wellbeing.
Clubgrants Category 3 Infrastructure Grants level of support
Funding is available across four key categories:
- Arts and Culture: $50,000 to $200,000 per project
- Community Infrastructure: $50,000 to $250,000 per project
- Disaster Readiness: $50,000 to $200,000 per project
- Sport and Recreation: $50,000 to $300,000 per project
Infrastructure Grants can be used toward the costs of construction, alteration, renovation, completion, and fit-out of buildings and community infrastructure.
Clubgrants Category 3 Infrastructure Grants important dates
Round 1
- Closes: Monday, 21 July 2025 at 11:59 PM (AEST)
Round 2
- Opens: Monday, 24 November 2025
- Closes: Monday, 15 December 2025 at 11:59 PM (AEDT)
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Clubgrants Category 3 Infrastructure Grants objectives
The grant aims to strengthen NSW communities through:
- Investment in high-quality, publicly accessible infrastructure
- Support for community participation and inclusion
- Improved resilience through disaster readiness
- Strengthened arts, cultural and recreational engagement
Projects eligible for Clubgrants Category 3 Infrastructure Grants support
The Clubgrants Category 3 Infrastructure Grants can support a broad range of capital projects that enhance community infrastructure across New South Wales. Funding is available for both physical infrastructure and essential project delivery costs.
Grants can be used for:
- Construction, renovation, alteration, and fit-out of buildings or facilities
- Purchase of capital equipment with:
- A value of $5,000 or more
- A useful life of over one year
- Design and professional service costs directly related to project delivery (e.g. engineering, architectural, or project management services)
Examples of eligible projects include:
- Upgrades or new construction of:
- Local sports grounds (Sport and Recreation)
- Community centres (Community Infrastructure)
- Public swimming pools (Community Infrastructure)
- Evacuation centres and disaster readiness infrastructure (Disaster Readiness)
- Cultural facilities including museums, theatres, galleries, and performance spaces (Arts and Culture)
- Public amenities that support youth services, mental health, or homelessness programs (Community Infrastructure)
- Mobile infrastructure projects, such as:
- Community outreach vehicles e.g. for food relief or support services (Community Infrastructure)
- Emergency response vessels (Disaster Readiness)
- Refrigerated trailers and other portable assets (Community Infrastructure or Disaster Readiness)
Design-specific costs—such as building plans, technical drawings, and construction quotes—are also eligible when they are integral to delivering a funded project.
Explore the types of projects eligible for support under each of the four funding streams in the dropdown section below.
Other Clubgrants Category 3 Infrastructure Grants important details that you will need to know
Organisations eligible for Clubgrants Category 3 Infrastructure Grants support
Applicants must:
- Be not-for-profit organisations with an ABN (including schools if public access is provided)
- Be responsible for maintaining or operating the infrastructure
- Submit only one application per round
- Have the necessary Development Approval or exemption
- Be located in NSW
What types of projects can be supported under Clubgrants Category 3 Infrastructure Grants?
1. Arts and Culture
You can apply for funding under this stream if your project supports infrastructure such as:
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- Cultural maintenance (e.g. Aboriginal keeping place, language centres)
- Film (e.g. cinema, production studios)
- Performing arts (e.g. theatre, performing arts centre, rehearsal and studios)
- Music (e.g. conservatorium, concert hall)
- Historical, nature or science collections (e.g. museum, war memorial, botanic gardens)
- Visual arts and craft (e.g. exhibition or gallery space)
- Literature and writing (e.g. library, writer’s centre)
- Community (e.g. multipurpose hall)
2. Community Infrastructure
You can apply for funding under this stream if your project supports infrastructure such as:
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- Multipurpose community service or hub
- Service for a CALD community
- Service for an Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander community
- Service for homeless people
- Service for older people
- Service for people experiencing domestic violence
- Service for people with disability
- Service for young people
- Service for women.
3. Disaster Readiness
You can apply for funding under this stream if your project supports infrastructure such as:
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- Capital equipment
- Evacuation centre
- Management centre
- Training centre
- Intervention style disaster readiness
- Multi-purpose community facility
- Drought related infrastructure.
4. Sport and Recreation
You can apply for funding under this stream if your project supports infrastructure such as:
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- Indoor organised sports centre (e.g. indoor cricket, basketball)
- Leisure centre (e.g. martial arts dojo, gymnastics centre)
- Outdoor organised sports facility (e.g. football field, netball courts)
- Recreation space (e.g. playground, skate-park)
- Large-scale purpose-built facility (e.g. stadium, velodrome, motorsports facility)
- Water sports (e.g swimming pool).
Your project will need to:
- be infrastructure that is accessible and available to the public most of the time.
Projects can contribute to, but are not limited to, one or more of the following areas or outcomes:
- Construction, alteration, renovation, completion and fit-out of buildings and community infrastructure
What you can’t apply for:
- Day to day activities that supplements ongoing service delivery or core business.
- Existing services or initiatives currently underway.
- Work undertaken or commenced before funding decisions are made.
- Projects that provide or produce commercial outputs and benefits.
- Recurring services and outputs that had been undertaken and or/funded in the past.
- Projects not undertaken in NSW and/or not benefiting NSW communities and economy.
Clubgrants Category 3 Infrastructure Grants assessment criteria
All eligible applications are assessed against four core criteria:
1. Merit
- Alignment with a clear community vision
- Tangible public or social benefit
- Introduction or enhancement of high-use infrastructure
- Measurable outcomes and evaluation strategies
2. Engagement
- Ongoing community and stakeholder involvement
- Responsive to identified needs of the target groups
- Support for volunteers and/or local employment
3. Viability
- Sound planning, project management, and risk mitigation
- Realistic timelines (project completion within two years)
- Demonstrated financial and governance capacity
- Strategic partnerships and long-term operational planning
4. Budget
- Accurate and itemised financial plan
- Realistic costs with quotes and insurance included
- Demonstrates value for public investment
- Encourages co-funding and includes a contingency allowance
How do I get the Clubgrants Category 3 Infrastructure Grants?
Applicants must:
- Read and understand the guidelines.
- Ensure eligibility for the funding. Applicants that do not meet all the eligibility criteria will not be considered.
- Deliver the project as outlined in the application.
- Provide complete information requirements.
Priority is given to projects that benefit:
- Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities
- Culturally and linguistically diverse communities
- Disadvantaged or marginalised groups
- Regional and remote locations
Information to prepare for the Clubgrants Category 3 Infrastructure Grants application
Applicants should prepare the following documents:
- A Development Approval certificate, reference number, or evidence of exemption
- Up to three letters of community support (not from elected officials or government representatives)
- Property owner consent if the applicant is leasing the property
- CEO authorisation for mobile infrastructure applications
- Designs, plans, and formal quotes for all proposed works
Applying for the Clubgrants Category 3 Infrastructure Grants
Complete the online application form available on the NSW Government Grants and Funding Finder website.
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