Our Heritage Bank Charitable Foundation COVID-19 Kick Start Grant recipients needed to meet the following criteria.

• Be a non-profit with deductible gift recipient (DGR) status.
• Be able to show evidence of an effective existing program supporting one or more of the following areas:
  • Positive educational and alternative pathways to help at-risk children and teenagers;
  • Health care services for vulnerable Australians and their families; and
  • Support for the economic and social wellbeing of people in regional, rural and remote communities, including in times of natural disasters. 

• Operate in one or more of the following geographical regions:
  • Darling Downs;
  • Brisbane and surrounding areas;
  • Gold Coast;
  • Sunshine Coast;
  • Wide Bay Burnett;
  • Lockyer Valley;
  • Ipswich;
  • Bundaberg;
  • Southern Downs;
  • Western Downs and/or;
  • Western Sydney (Parramatta and The Hills Shire).
  
• Have had a significant reduction in fundraising income due to the COVID-19 restrictions.
• Be clearly able to demonstrate the number of people who will be positively impacted by provision of the grant.
• Have an annual income for 2019 (based on their latest audited report) of under $10 million.
• Obtain less than 70% of their annual income from government sources.

Grant applications are currently closed. For more information on the criteria used to assess applications in the COVID-19 Kick Start Grants, refer to our COVID-19 Kick-Start Grant Guidelines and Grant Application FAQ's.