2025-26 Grants SA Community Sheds Round

The Community Shed funding round aims to increase participation, capacity, and sustainability of community sheds throughout South Australia. This funding aims to support initiatives that will achieve positive outcomes for community sheds in the following areas:

• Wellbeing, Social isolation and loneliness, improved sense of community connection
• Increase participation and diversity specifically from groups likely to experience social isolation and/ or discrimination including people with disability or aged related disability, and people experiencing poor health or mental health challenges.
• Skill sharing and mentoring
• Support the sustainability of current operations.
• Volunteering

Please use this form to apply for funding up to $30,000 to support your Community Shed.

Before commencing this application, please make sure you have read and are familiar with the requirements contained within the Funding Guidelines.

Funding is prioritised for projects that support people and/or communities experiencing socioeconomic disadvantage and other vulnerabilities.

Please note:

• If your application is successful there is no guarantee that you will receive the full amount of funding requested.
• Successful organisations will only have one grant awarded within this funding round.

If you have problems completing the form or have questions about the process, including eligibility please contact the Grants SA team on1300 650 985 or email grantssa@sa.gov.au.

1.2.3 Applications will not be accepted from organisations or sponsored organisations that:

• Have any outstanding contractual or financial obligations (including reports, acquittals, unpaid invoices) for any funded Department of Human Services projects/programs.
• Have licensed gaming machines in their facilities or hold a gaming machine license.
• Are educational institutions or related representative bodies. For example, schools and/or their parent or student associations, universities, colleges.
• Are individuals, sole traders, or organisations applying on behalf of an individual.
• Are for-profit organisations or private companies 
• Are Government agencies -Commonwealth or State Departments and Local Government Agencies. (Local Government Agencies can only act as a sponsor for community organisations).
• Organisations that have been operating for less than 12 months.

Any eligible organisation or sponsored organisation can be funded for a maximum of two Grants SA grants per financial year. There is no limit to the number applications an eligible organisation can sponsor.