Supporting Multicultural Communities – Rapid Assistance

Overview

The Australian Government is inviting pre-selected organisations through a one-off ad hoc selection process to apply to deliver services under Program 2.5 – Multicultural Affairs and Citizenship over three years from 2025-26. The grant will support multicultural communities as outlined in Labor’s costed plan to Build Australia’s Future. This will be a one-off ad hoc grant to pre-selected organisations to deliver facilities, new construction or extend/upgrade existing infrastructure or services that will meet the needs of multicultural communities. The objectives of the program are to: support multicultural organisations to deliver new construction or extend/upgrade existing infrastructure to provide access to purpose-built facilities improve amenity and accessibility through investment in community infrastructure build resilient multicultural communities through the provision of social, cultural and community facilities. The intended outcomes of the program activity are to: maintain and enhance access to multicultural infrastructure and amenity encourage and facilitate multicultural communities to connect and commune in a designated safe physical environment improve equity outcomes and social inclusion. The eligible applicants hold relevant project knowledge, and are considered to possess: appropriate cultural awareness to deliver facilities that will meet the needs of multicultural communities an ability to work with multicultural communities to increase the uptake of Australian values, boost civic participation and enable connection through the use of community spaces a willingness to strengthen inclusion and social cohesion.