Securing Faith-Based Places

Overview

The Securing Faith-Based Places grant opportunity aims to assist faith-based places and spaces to improve security and safety. The objective of the program is to support religious schools and pre-schools, places of worship and faith-based community centres to address the risk of crime and violence motivated by religious or racial intolerance through the installation or upgrade of security infrastructure and/or the engagement of security guards at those sites. The intended outcomes of the program are to: enable faith-based communities to undertake activities safely and free from harassment deter crime and violence at faith-based places improve safety within faith-based communities when attending faith-based places, and contribute to greater community resilience and wellbeing. Eligible activities must directly relate to the improvement of security measures at a religious school, pre-school, place of worship or faith-based community centre that is facing security risks associated with religious and/or racial intolerance. You must provide supporting information confirming that the crime and violence is religiously or racially motivated. Grants available are between $25,000 and $500,000. The grant amount will be up to 100% of eligible project costs.