Round 2 will support local councils and state government agencies managing public land to combat illegal dumping. Stream 4 supports collaborative projects addressing illegal dumping across multiple land tenures for groups of organisations.
Key information
- Status: Closed
- Grant amount: $200,000
- Application opened: 15 July 2024
- Application closed: 30 August 2024, 5:00 pm
Program objective
These grants support the delivery of the NSW Illegal Dumping Prevention Strategy 2022-27 and contribute to two of the key focus areas of the strategy:
- Reducing kerbside illegal dumping activities
- Reducing public land and bushland illegal dumping activities
The four grants streams aim to support local government and state government agencies to:
- gather baseline and ongoing data on the size of their illegal dumping problem
- develop a business case for investment in illegal dumping prevention
- proactively target localised illegal dumping issues
- collaboratively address illegal dumping across land tenures
- encourage entities to undertake illegal dumping prevention projects if they have not done so before
This program is administered by Environment Protection Authority.
Eligibility
Who can apply
This is a new grant stream to run a collaborative project addressing illegal dumping across multiple land tenures for groups of organisations (including local councils, groupings of councils and state government agencies).
Funding of up to $200,000 per group is available for projects to be completed within 24 months.
Partners can include entities that do not manage public land such as community groups, Local Aboriginal Land Councils or charities, but the purpose of their participation must be to prevent dumping on public land.
Types of projects funded under this grant
This is a new grant stream to run a collaborative project addressing illegal dumping across multiple land tenures for groups of organisations (including local councils, groupings of councils and state government agencies).
Funding of up to $200,000 per group is available for projects to be completed within 24 months.
Applications with a mix of state and local government entities will be viewed favourably, but this is not essential.
Projects must include strategic prevention measures to reduce the illegal dumping problem. The selection process will favour projects that show an integrated approach towards preventing and targeting illegal dumping, meaning they incorporate more than one approach to illegal dumping outlined in the NSW Illegal Dumping Strategy 2022-2027.
Projects do not need to be focussed on specific hotspots – they can be engagement or communications across a region.
Supporting letters from project partners must be attached.
A project steering group will need to be formed if your application is successful. It will need to be made up of suitably qualified representatives of the partner organisations, including the organisation/s managing public land on which proposed projects are to be located. Successful applicants must engage with EPA regularly and report on agreed milestones.
Projects must be planned to run either for 12 months or 24 months.
All partners in the application must have baseline data.
Successful applicants must use the EPA RIDonline database as part of their project and ensure that data is brought up to date in RIDonline at least every three months.
Partners can include entities that do not manage public land such as community groups, Local Aboriginal Land Councils or charities, but the purpose of their participation must be to prevent dumping on public land.
Projects must not involve spending more than 50% of the grant funding on clean up and disposal of illegally dumped materials.
if any applicants are currently receiving EPA funding for illegal dumping initiatives, including but not limited to RID programs/squad, they should demonstrate how this project will complement the other funded initiatives.
What your application needs to include
Prepare your application with this checklist
A brief Expression of Interest (EOI) must be submitted using the SmartyGrants platform. After you submit your EOI, the EPA will contact you and arrange a meeting between 2 September and 3 October. You can discuss your proposal in this meeting and ask questions about the grants. After the meeting, you will be invited to complete a full application.
Initial EOI is due by 30 August 2024, and the full application is due by 16 October 2024.
For the EOI, you will need the following:
- Relevant photos or maps
- Letter of support from project partners
Address the eligibility criteria
Each applicant, as part of an application response, must confirm that they meet the eligibility criteria.
Applicants that do not address the eligibility criteria in full may be excluded from the application process at the department's discretion.
Address the assessment criteria
Eligible applications will be assessed by a technical review committee against the following criteria:
- Size and complexity of the illegal dumping problem, and how well is it demonstrated (40% weighting).
- Effectiveness of proposed collaborative approaches to prevent illegal dumping across targeted area; their probable extent and longevity of impact; extent of integration with RID squad/program (where applicable) (30% weighting).
- Probable longevity of the project’s impact (10% weighting).
- Appropriateness of budget and project value for money – predicted outcomes and outputs are proportionate to the funding amount requested and in-kind or other contributions (10% weighting).
- Robustness of project evaluation method (10% weighting).
After the application is submitted
Successful applications will be decided by: EPA CEO. Applications will undergo an eligibility check before being reviewed by an independent technical review committee using the criteria set out below. The technical review committee will recommend projects to the EPA CEO for funding.
Applications will be assessed by a technical review committee (TRC). The committee will assess potential performance based on an applicant’s ability to meet selection criteria.
The TRC will rank the eligible applications during the assessment process. The TRC then makes recommendations to the EPA. The EPA Chief Executive Officer will make final funding decisions.
We encourage any unsuccessful applicants to request feedback and consider re-applying in future funding opportunities.
All funding is 100% contestable.
Support and contact
Need advice? The Illegal Dumping Prevention Team can advise on these guidelines and the types of activities funded by grants. To contact staff email illegaldumping.strategy@epa.nsw.gov.au.