Grants

The NSW Government continues to support NSW communities to honour the service and sacrifice of our veterans. The NSW Office for Veterans Affairs manages two grant programs which provides funding to acknowledge our military history.

 

Anzac Community Grants Program (ACGP)

The ACGP provides small grants for a range of projects that commemorate and educate New South Wales communities about the service and sacrifices of current and former military servicemen and servicewomen. Projects which support activities benefiting the NSW veteran community are also eligible for funding.

Applications for the 2024 Anzac Community Grants Program have now closed. Applications are currently being assessed. The next round opens in September 2025.

For more information and to apply, click here.

 

Community War Memorials Fund (CWMF)

The CWMF funds projects that help conserve, repair and protect war memorials across NSW. Since the establishment of the program in 2008, grants have been provided for a wide range of projects including conservation assessments, honour roll repair, war memorial cleaning and conservation work, arborist advice for war memorial trees, minor repairs to war memorial halls and improvements to the accessibility of memorials.

Applications to Round 2 of the 2024/25 Community War Memorials Fund close at 11pm on 12 February 2025. 

For more information on the Fund, click here.

 

Other funding opportunities

There are also funding opportunities from other organisations for projects which support commemoration, community infrastructure such as work to war memorial halls, and work to conserve heritage.

For more information of other funding opportunities, click here.

 

NSW ESO Grants Forum

On 25 November 2022, we held an online grants forum for NSW Ex-Service Organisations (ESOs). The forum focused on grant writing skills, available funding opportunities and the challenges that NSW ESOs face in applying for grant funding. Presentations on grants were made by staff of the NSW Office for Veterans Affairs and Commonwealth Department of Veterans' Affairs.

Recordings, presentation slides and additional resources from the forum are available here.