Grants & Funding

Grants

Each year, hundreds of millions of dollars in grants are awarded for various projects, with many Australian bowling clubs successfully securing funding. Grants offer financial support that enables your club to undertake projects, renovations, or events that might be challenging to achieve through traditional fundraising methods.

Beyond just financial aid, grants can validate your club’s efforts, leading to increased recognition, publicity, and support from the community. Additionally, they can serve as a significant morale boost for everyone involved in the funded initiative.

Bowls Australia, in partnership with CLUBMAP, shares information about Open Grants with clubs through our Club Support Managers each month. 

Soon, this will transition to access through our Bowls Resource Hub. If you haven’t registered for this free resource yet, simply follow the provided link. While the Open Grants list is not currently active, you can still explore other resources, including our grant writing section, which offers numerous tips and techniques to enhance your chances of a successful submission.

Remember to utilize our Letter of Support Request form, and please allow sufficient time for us to process your request and return it to you before the application deadline..

Last updated: February 6, 2025

Grants Workshop Series

Bowls Australia has recently hosted a workshop series on Facility Redevelopment and planning to be successful in a Grants process. 

The 3 part series hosted by Sports Community can be viewed using the links that follow. 

Each workshop is approximately 1 hour in length.

Click here for more information.

Letter of support request

If your club requires a Letter of Support from Bowls Australia for any grant applications, please submit the form by clicking here. By submitting this request we kindly ask to be kept up to date regarding the outcome of the application and project developments as appropriate.

Key considerations into submitting the form

  1. Allow a 10 day timeframe for letters to be complete. Any requests put in outside this timeframe may not be completed by the requested date or at all.
  2. BA will endeavour to write the letters before the date requested, but sometimes this is not possible and we will get to them before the grant closes.
  3. Provide as much information as possible, the more information provided the better it is.
  4. Once the letter is complete we will send it to the club’s relevant CSM to forward to the club.

Any questions please contact admin@bowls.com.au or (03) 9480 7100

Bowls Disaster Relief Fund

With the harsh conditions of the Australian landscape, natural disasters such as floods and fires can ravish and affect areas across the country in a short space of time, but just like the Australian ethos of looking after our mates, the lawn bowls fraternity will stand united in its support for bowling clubs and communities affected by tragic events through the Disaster Relief Fund initiative.