External Grants

Your local Country Education Foundation (CEF) supports youth in your area through financial grants for education and employment expenses. Our grants contribute towards apprenticeships, traineeships, cadetships, diplomas, certificate level studies, university qualifications or employment.

Eligibility Criteria
- Demonstrated financial need
- Aged 16-25 years
- Attended school in or currently live in the region covered by your local CEF
- Commitment to achieving your goals

Key dates

Applications close: These rounds are ongoing however generally open in the second half of the year.

Click here for more information and to apply.

Provides support for a specific event, project, item, or initiative that helps, grows, and enriches our communities.

For more information go to Harcourts Foundation – To provide support that helps, grows and enriches our communities.

As part of the Community Partnerships Program, Newcrest distributes funding each year that aims to support and enhance the community groups, organisations and infrastructure that provide a sustainable foundation for the communities of the Blayney, Cabonne and Orange Local Government Area's (LGAs).

Newmont has partnered with Orange360 to establish the Newmont Orange360 Regional Tourism Event Fund to help bolster the tourism industry within the region. The fund will help build on the success of the region's festivals to stimulate the visitor economy and diversify the events across the calendar, positioning the Orange region as a leading destination. 

Applications NOW OPEN for FY25/26

Applications are now open for the Newmont Orange360 Regional Tourism Event Fund for FY 25/26.

Fund Guidelines

To apply, please ensure you read the following key documents to make sure your event is eligible for funding:

1. Fund Guideines 

2. Fund Terms & Conditions

3. Applications must align with Orange360's Strategic Priorities

Application Resources

The following resources have been made available to assist your funding application: 

1. Event Budget Template

2. Marketing Budget Template

3. Marketing Plan Template

4. Visitation Data Template

5. Application Key Questions

How to apply

Applications need to be submitted via an online portal. Before accessing the portal, please refer to the Application Key Questions document to assist your submission.

To access the portal, click on the application link below:

SUBMIT APPLICATION HERE
 

For further queries about the Newmont Orange360 Regional Tourism Event Fund, please contact Mali Williams at Orange360: mali@orange360.com.au 

The Australian Government has announced a $1 billion Economic Resilience Program to be drawn from the $15 billion National Reconstruction Fund.

Through the Economic Resilience Program, eligible Australian businesses will have access to zero interest loans to support identified industries impacted by market disruptions, or help maintain and build national strategic and economic resilience

Support provided through the Economic Resilience Program is designed to assist logistics and manufacturing businesses in areas such as freight, fuel, plastics and fertiliser who are materially impacted by market disruptions related to current conflicts and global price rises for key inputs.

Applications for loans through the program open on April 20, 2026. 

There are two parts to the program:

• Zero interest loans administered directly by a participating bank for companies who are seeking a loan of up to $5 million.
• Zero interest loans administered by the NRFC for companies who are seeking a loan of more than $5 million.

An FAQ document has been created to help potential applicants understand the program, its intent, key eligibility requirements and how to apply.

More Information

The $5 billion Net Zero Fund, announced as part of the Industry Sector Plan, is part of the Australian Government’s approach to driving decarbonisation, unlocking new manufacturing investment, and improving energy affordability in hard-to-abate sectors of the Australian economy.  

The fund has been designed to:

• Support large industrial firms to decarbonise energy-intensive parts of their operations; and
• Support investment in the scale-up of domestic manufacturing of low emissions technologies.

The Net Zero Fund has a lower benchmark rate of return to enable the NRFC to invest in earlier-stage proposals, first-of-a-kind projects, or those with large upfront capital requirements and longer repayment periods compared to investments made under the NRFC’s General Fund.

To register interest and apply for the Net Zero Fund

The Net Zero Fund is now open for applications. Please fill out our webform to tell us about your business and/or project and how the Net Zero Fund might support you.

We will then arrange for one of our investment professionals to discuss your eligibility under the fund and assist you with lodging a proposal for investment.

More information