Collaborative Community Projects

Main Grant Round

Carinity’s Collaborative Community Projects is part of the organisation’s broader commitment to Community Development. The funding program is open to all Baptist churches in Queensland. A total of up to $550,000 per year is available to implement community-engaged projects which:

• Relieve and mitigate disadvantage;
• Promote connectivity for vulnerable people; and
• Increase the strength of local neighbourhoods against disadvantage.

In the Main Grant Round, eligible Queensland Baptist churches and service organisations can apply for funding of between $5,000 and $50,000 per year. With most grants anticipated to be in the range of $10,000 to $20,000, there’s plenty of scope to make your dream community engagement program come to life. A copy of the latest Funding Guidelines can be downloaded here. 

Applications for the 2026 Main Grant Round (that will be distributed in the 2027 calendar year) will be open between 1 June and 30 June 2026. Please contact Phil or Tara in the Mission Engagement team at Carinity on 07 3550 3723 or via e-mail (philip.hamilton@carinity.org.au) for information on the 2026 round.

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Small Grant Round

Every year, Carinity’s Collaborative Community Projects (CCP) Grants program supports a growing number of churches with strategic grant funding to help them undertake projects that have a transformative effect in the lives of those doing life tough in their local neighbourhood. This funding is primarily distributed under the Main Grant Round, which makes funding commitments of up to $50,000 p.a. available for up to three years. 

In the month of September, Carinity will commence taking applications for the Small Grants Round. This is aimed at supporting pastors and ministry leaders with smaller community project ideas or existing community projects they are already running, but who might not be quite ready to commit to larger project funding through the Main Grant Round.

QB pastors and ministry leaders are eligible to apply for funding of up to $5,000 for a project of up to 12 months duration and commencing during the course of the following year.

Note: Successful applicants from the previous year’s Small Grant Round will be ineligible to apply for Small Grant Round funding this year. 

If you would like to know more, a copy of the latest Funding Guidelines can be downloaded here.

Please reach out to Tara or Phil in the Mission Engagement team at Carinity on 07 3550 3723 or via e-mail philip.hamilton@carinity.org.au or tara.pease@carinity.org.au if you would like to know more

Successful applications for the Small Grants round of funding will be distributed in the following calendar year. 

Need some more help?

We have published a three-part series of webinars to provide more information for pastors and ministry leaders wishing to apply for next years’ Carinity’s Collaborative Community Projects (CCP) program:

• The recording of the first webinar (Articulating Organisational Strategy and Church Community Engagement priorities) can be found here. 
• The recording of the second webinar (Designing Transformational Projects with meaningful measures of success) can be found here.
• The recording of the third webinar (refreshed for 2025 applicants, and recorded on 22 May 2025), which deals with the Collaborative Community Projects application process, can be found here. 

Community Development at Carinity

To learn more about Carinity’s approach to Community Development, please feel free to contact Carinity’s Community Development Coordinator, Philip Hamilton, on 0492 803 170 or philip.hamilton@carinity.org.au.