Inclusive Energy Outreach Grant

Grant for community organisations to deliver energy literacy outreach

The NSW Government has awarded $1.97 million in Inclusive Energy Outreach Grants (formerly known as Community Energy Outreach Program Grants). The grants will help community-based organisations deliver targeted outreach and tailored energy literacy education to vulnerable communities.   

Grant recipients

The grant recipients are:

• Armidale Uniting Church
• CatholicCare Wilcannia-Forbes Ltd
• Ethnic Communities Council of NSW
• Homes North Community Housing
• Interchange Shoalhaven Limited
• Kempsey Neighbourhood Centre Inc
• Sydney Community Forum Ltd
• The Flagstaff Group
• The Trustee for The Uniting Circle Charitable Trust
• Walhallow Local Aboriginal Land Council. 

About the grants

Eligible organisations applied for funding to deliver face-to-face community engagement (e.g. workshops), development of resources, partnerships with local councils, community groups, small business networks and more.  

Funded projects will empower vulnerable cohorts to make informed energy choices to make their homes comfortable and affordable. The outreach will target one or more of the following groups:

• low-income households and social support recipients
• seniors and people with health/disability needs
• renters (especially low-income and private tenants)
• families with children
• culturally and linguistically diverse communities
• Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities
• regional and remote communities
• people in homes with poor energy efficiency or limited agency
• people just above eligibility thresholds (“hidden vulnerability”)
• people with employment insecurity.

The Inclusive Energy Outreach Program is a key action being delivered under the NSW Consumer Energy Strategy to support energy education and ensure everyone can benefit from the energy transition.

These grants were awarded as part of a second funding round. The Round 1 grant delivered over 70 outreach and energy education activities to support Culturally and Linguistically diverse communities as well as upskill community housing staff to help tenants make positive energy changes in the home now and beyond the life of the grant.  

If you have any questions about this funding opportunity, or to discuss your project or application, please email us at [email protected].

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