Grants and funding for Aboriginal people and communities in NSW

Apply for grants and funding to help improve outcomes and opportunities for Aboriginal people and communities in NSW. Aboriginal Affairs NSW provides and promotes support for these grant programs.

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Acknowledgement

Aboriginal Affairs NSW acknowledges the Traditional Custodians of the lands where we work and the places in which we live. We pay respect to Ancestors and Elders past and present. We recognise the unique cultural and spiritual relationship and celebrate the contributions of First Nations peoples to Australia.

Aboriginal Affairs NSW Cultural Grants

Applications for our 2024-2025 Cultural Grants are now open. We are offering grants of between $500 and $20,000 for Aboriginal organisations.  

Grants are available for projects that strengthen, preserve and protect Aboriginal Culture. Find out more and how to get help when applying. 

Cultural Grants

More about Aboriginal Affairs NSW funding

Aboriginal Affairs NSW grants

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Cultural Grants 2024-2025

2024-2025 Cultural Grants

Applications for our 2024-2025 Cultural Grants are now open. Grants are available for projects that strengthen, preserve and protect Aboriginal Culture. 

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2024 NAIDOC Grants

These grants support the hosting of NAIDOC Week activities and events that celebrate Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander history, culture and achievements, and align with the theme of NAIDOC Week in 2024.

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Bus drawing featuring Aboriginal artwork

2023-2024 Community and Place Grants Program

The Program aims to deliver tangible local benefit and impact to Aboriginal communities against the Closing the Gap socio-economic outcome targets

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2023-2025 ACEMGP

The program aims to enable discrete Aboriginal Communities in Northern NSW to develop emergency management plans and implement emergency management initiatives to build resilience to bushfires, floods, storms and pandemics.

Aboriginal Affairs NSW

Find out more about the NSW Government agency that advocates for, 

and supports Aboriginal people and communities

Meet our team

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Get everyday funding support

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The NSW Government provides a range of vouchers and support:

For Australian Government programs and support see 

Australian Government grants & funding for Aboriginal people

Contact Aboriginal Affairs

Office address: Level 6, 201 Coward Street, Mascot NSW 2020

Postal address: PO Box 207, Mascot NSW 2020

Phone:1800 019 998Business hours: 9am – 5pm Monday to Friday

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