// Community Impact Program Funding Guidelines

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YOUTH Great Southern has been established through a bequest to support initiatives addressing issues facing disadvantaged youth in the Lower Great Southern region.  Youth are identified as being between 12-25 years of age and the program must be delivered within the Great Southern.

Program Objectives (Principles)

To alleviate issues faced by disadvantaged youth, or youth considered at-risk including:

  • Homelessness

  • Mental health issues

  • Education

  • Unemployment

  • Life skills

Assessment criteria

Each application will be assessed against the following criteria:

  • The project will benefit young people aged between 12 and 25 years of age

  • The project addresses one or more of the Program Objectives

  • The project demonstrates community need through consultations and research

  • Evidence of sound planning and ability to manage the project, including clearly defined project outcomes and evaluation measures to determine the effectiveness, feasibility and sustainability of the initiative

  • Ongoing benefits for young people following completion of the project

  • Value for money. The amount requested is reasonable given the number of young people involved and the anticipated outcomes for young people

  • Successful applications will support vulnerable or disadvantaged youth in the Great Southern community.

Eligible applicants

Eligible organisations must be either:

• an incorporated, not-for-profit, community sector organisation

• a Western Australian local government authority, or

• an unincorporated organisation or community group, applying through the auspice of an incorporated body or a local government authority

A group or organisation is a not-for-profit if its governing documents prohibit distribution of profits to individual members while the organisation is operating and upon its wind-up.