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The Every Club Grant Scheme aims to ensure sport and recreation clubs are supported to build their organisational capacity and capability through accessible and flexible club development services.

The department provides funding to eligible local governments to:

• Provide education, training and professional development opportunities for the sport and recreation club workforce.
• Support sport and recreation clubs to adopt good governance, planning and management practices.
• Demonstrate partnerships between local governments, SSAs, regional sporting associations and sport and recreation clubs.

The following organisations are eligible to apply:

• metropolitan and regional local governments.

To be eligible for funding, organisations must:

• be registered as a local government entity in Western Australia;
• possess an Australian Business Number (ABN); and
• maintain appropriate and sufficient insurance cover for the duration of the project. A certificate of currency of insurance for the coming year should be provided upon application. Please note, for public liability insurance, a minimum value of $10 million per claim or occurrence giving rise to a claim is required.

In addition, the following will apply:

• Organisations must commit to ensuring a COVID-19 safe environment and complying with all relevant regulations.
• Organisations must make a co-contribution of financial and in-kind support to the value of:
  • 50% of total project costs for metropolitan local governments
  • 33% of total project costs for regional local governments.
• Organisations with outstanding acquittals for any COTS grant may have payments withheld until outstanding acquittal documentation is satisfactorily completed.