Joint Australian and Queensland Government statement.
Queensland communities impacted by floods and cyclones will benefit from more than $4.5 million in grant funding to speed up their recovery and boost resilience.
Sixty-nine projects across 39 LGAs affected by severe weather and flooding during 2021-22 will benefit, through Round Two of the Flexible Funding Grants program.
Projects include solar towers to provide power during outages, remote flood warning systems, emergency preparedness education programs, mental health services and resilience activities for people with disability.
For the full list of grant recipients, visit: https://www.housing.qld.gov.au/initiatives/category-c-funding
The Flexible Funding Grants program is jointly funded under the Disaster Recovery Funding Arrangements (DRFA). Under these arrangements, up to $20 million was made available for eligible projects to support human and social recovery in the affected areas.
Across both rounds of the program, Queenslanders in 39 communities have benefitted from more than $7.5 million in funding for 123 projects to boost their recovery and disaster preparedness.
Explainer:
The grants were made available to communities affected by Central, Southern and Western Queensland’s rainfall and flooding event in November and December 2021; Ex-Tropical Cyclone Seth in December 2021 and January 2022; South East Queensland’s rainfall and flooding from February through to April 2022; and flooding in Southern Queensland in May 2022.
Councils, industry and community groups, peak bodies, Queensland-based non-government organisations, and research bodies could apply for multiple grants, with small grants from $2,500 up to $50,000 and large grants from $50,001 up to $100,000.
For more information about the grant program, visit: www.qra.qld.gov.au/funding-programs/event-specific-exceptional-circumstances-assistance/2021-22-queensland-rainfall-and-flooding-exceptional-circumstances-package/flexible-funding-grants.
