Rural community grants
You can use the categories to the right to explore particular topics. You’ll also find inspiring stories about some of the wonderful things community groups do with that funding. We also share a selection of media stories, where FRRR or a member of our staff has been featured. For any media enquiries, email Julie Weldon or call 0423 110 802.
Grants available to power digital solutions
20 Feb 2025 – Telstra’s Connected Communities Grant Program is now open, with grants available to empower rural communities to embrace new technologies and digital solutions.
Nutrien Ag Solutions offers grants for community groups in regional Australia
10 Jul 2024 – Applications for Nutrien Ag Solutions’ Community Grants Program are now open, with grants up to $5,000 available to support projects in regional Australia.
New partnership with Telstra to connect communities
02 Feb 2023 – FRRR today welcomed a new $600,000 partnership with Telstra, which will see Telstra’s Connected Communities Grant Program launch in March 2023.
More than $900,000 awarded to community-led groups building pandemic resilience
06 Sep 2022 – Twenty-seven community-led groups in remote, rural and regional NSW will share in $912,505 awarded through the Resilience NSW COVID Regional Community Support (CRCS) program.
$500,000 in grants to help recovery work of local community groups in flood affected areas of Qld & NSW
17 Aug 2022 – Suncorp and GIO have partnered with the Foundation for Rural & Regional Renewal (FRRR), through the Rebuilding Futures program, to offer $500,000 in grants of up to $25,000 to help…
Strengthening rural and regional communities
12 Jul 2022 – After supporting more than 50 incredible local projects in 2021, the Nutrien Ag Solutions Community Grants Program is back, offering grants of up to $5,000 for projects across rural and…
FRRR reports significant increase in support for rural communities
05 Nov 2021 – A unique Australian charity significantly increased its year-on-year grant making, giving remote, rural and regional communities across the country a much-needed funding boost as they adapted to the impacts of…
Funding boosts vibrancy and wellbeing of rural communities across Australia
19 Oct 2021 – Community organisations across rural and regional Australia will share in more than $250,000 as Nutrien Ag Solutions, in partnership with the Foundation for Rural & Regional Renewal, announced the recipients…
Make a Difference – Port Macquarie
17 Aug 2021 – Support needed now more than ever for communities hit by multiple disasters Port Macquarie, on the mid-north coast of New South Wales, is just one of many towns reeling from…
Protecting the Stone Country
05 Jul 2021 – Warddeken, an Aboriginal owned not-for-profit company, combines traditional ecological knowledge with Western science to manage and protect one of Australia’s most unique environments.