Placemaking Grants
Watsons Bay Markets - Placemaking Grant Recipient
Placemaking Grants Program 2025/26 is NOW OPEN!
Applications are now open for our 2025/26 program. Grants up to $7,500 are available.
Applications close on Sunday 11 May 2025 (midnight)
The key dates for 2025/2026 are:
- Applications open - Monday 31 March 2025
- Applications close - Sunday 11 May 2025 (midnight)
- Grants announced - mid-June 2025
- Funded projects may run between July 2025 and June 2026
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Woollahra Council Grants & Sponsorship Information Webinar
Learn about Council's grants & sponsorships, how to address the selection criteria and maximise your chance of a successful application.
March 2025 - See a copy of the presentation slides here(PDF, 5MB)
Watch a recording on the webinar below:
If you have any questions, please contact the Strategic Planning and Place team on 02 9391 7000 or email grants@woollahra.nsw.gov.au.
Who can apply?
Small Grants of up to $3,000 are available to businesses, sole traders, community and business sector support organisations including community groups, business chambers, resident associations and individuals.
Large Grants of between $3,001 and $7,500 are available to businesses, community and business sector support organisations including community groups, business chambers and resident associations.
Individuals may only apply for a Large Grant if under the auspices of a not for profit organisation.
Read the Grants Policy(PDF, 691KB) and Grants Guidelines(PDF, 292KB) for information about the program.
If you have any questions, please contact the Strategic Planning and Place team on 02 9391 7000 or grants@woollahra.nsw.gov.au.
Theme for Placemaking Events in the 2025/2026 round
Themes for the events category are identified annually. Priority is given to applications that align to this theme. For the 2025/2026 round the Placemaking Events theme is:
• Collaborative placemaking - events and activations that collaborate with the community and local businesses.
What type of projects are considered?
Placemaking Grants support projects, activities and events that activate and enhance public spaces, publicly accessible spaces, commercial centres and suburbs within the Woollahra LGA. There are two categories under this Grant’s Program stream.
Category 1 - Events
Delivery of new and / or recurring community events within public spaces or publicly accessible spaces within the Woollahra Local Government Area. This grant can also cover the purchasing of event infrastructure or equipment to be used in recurring events and support to develop partners and sponsorship opportunities to deliver on the event.
Examples include:
- Community markets
- Health and wellbeing activities
- Food truck events
- Community workshops
- Live music performances (e.g. open mic events)
- Family fun day out events
Category 2 - Place activation
To support and encourage activation of public spaces, business areas and neighbourhoods to enliven and improve access, liveability and activity. These projects can include elements including but not limited to:
- Establishment of a business partnership or collective than enables joint delivery of events, programs and services
- Delivery of lighting projects, installations, or other physical or digital works in public spaces or publicly accessible space within the Woollahra Local Government Area
- Initiatives that use public spaces to improve community engagement within the Woollahra LGA
- Development and implementation of marketing campaigns and tools such as marketing collateral, digital media publications, podcasts, and media partnerships to support the project implementation.
- Public art projects
- Rejuvenation of shop fronts, footpath displays, trading and dining
- Diversification of offerings within a precinct including food and beverage offerings, art and design, entertainment and retail
- Enable innovation such as local start up hubs, small business incubators and other innovative business developments that incentivise investment and visitation to a precinct
- Promote shopping and commercial areas
- Activate vacant shop fronts
- Musical or theatrical footpath theatre.
Policy and Guidelines
Read the Grants Policy(PDF, 691KB) and Grants Guidelines(PDF, 292KB) for information about the program.
Grant Recipients
View the list of previous successful grant recipients:
Enquiries
For more information, please contact:
Strategic Planning & Place Team
Telephone: 02 9391 7000
Email: grants@woollahra.nsw.gov.au