Sport Leadership Grants
The Sport Leadership Grants for Women program is an initiative of the Australian Government that is managed by the Australian Sports Commission in partnership with the Australian Government Office for Women. The Sport Leadership Grants for Women provide development opportunities and training for Women to reach their leadership potential on the sporting stage as coaches, officials and administrators. The program has been in place since November 2002. Over the last eight years more than 15,600 women from across Australia have benefited from grants worth more than $2.4 million!
What can the funds be used for?
These grants are aimed at providing women in sport with support and access to leadership training and development opportunities to assist in establishing them in the sport industry. The grants cover such things as: course fees, presenter fees, presenter travel, translator / interpreter fees, participants travel costs if outside metropolitan area of course being held and child care provided by qualified providers or in an accredited setting. The grant money cannot be used for equipment, accommodation, uniforms, salaries, competition entry, venue hire, catering, sports trainer or first aid training, retrospective course costs or administration costs.
Grants available in the following areas:
- Coaching
- Officiating
- Governance
- Management / Administration
- Communications / Media / Marketing
Successful applicants will receive a one-off Sport Leadership grant of up to $5000 for individuals and up to $10,000 for organisations. In addition to their identified projects, successful individual applicants are expected to attend a two day leadership workshop covering a range of leadership and development topics, including effective communication, conflict resolution and influencing change.
All successful applicants will be involved in the evaluation of the grants program and contribute to its continual improvement.
Applications for the 2010/11 round of Sport Leadership Grants and Scholarships for Women are now open and will close on 30th April 2010. Applicants will be advised of the success or otherwise of their application by July 2010.
Applications forms
Applications for the Sport Leadership Grants and Scholarships for Women must be submitted online.
Applicants will have the facility to print a copy of their application upon completion of all required fields and screens. There is no facility to save the application part way through the application process.
To assist you with preparing your application, please find copies of the required fields / screens as an example of the questions asked in the online application. While current at the time, these are examples only and some changes may have occurred to the application. The examples can be found at the bottom of this page.
* Please note that only online applications will be accepted, do not send in hard copy application forms.
Eligibility
To be eligible to apply for a Sport Leadership Grant, individual applicants must be:
- female
- established in a paid or volunteer capacity in community sport;
- available to attend an ASC Sport Leadership Workshop;
- an Australian citizen or have been granted permanent residence status;
- aged 18 years or more;
- supported by a sporting organisation affiliated with a sport that is recognised by the ASC.
To be eligible for a Sport Leadership Grant, sporting organisations must be:
- affiliated with sports recognised by the Australian Sports Commission;
- available to attend an ASC Sport Leadership Workshop;
- committed to support, encourage and provide appropriate ongoing opportunities for female beneficiaries of the grant.
- Individuals or organisations from the fitness industry
- Australian, State and Local government agencies
- Schools
- Projects targeting Non Australian Citizens or persons not granted permanent residence status
- Individuals or organisations that have not yet reported or acquitted a previous grant from the Australian Sports Commission
- Individual Application Screens (
PDF - 126.5 kb) - Organisation Application Screens ( PDF - 132.3 kb)
