Round 1: Subsidy Applications Open!

Volunteering WA is pleased to offer subsidies for registration, travel and accommodation costs to attend the 2025 State Conference.

YOUTH REGISTRATION SUBSIDY
Thanks to Stan Perron Charitable Foundation, Volunteering WA will help support young people (aged 30 years and under) from the volunteering community to attend the two-day conference by covering the cost of their ticket registration. Support from the Stan Perron Charitable Foundation has helped make this conference accessible to emerging volunteer managers and leaders. Limited places available.

RURAL & REGIONAL SUBSIDIES
Are you involved in a regional Western Australian organisation or community group and need financial support to travel to and attend the Conference? To ensure regional attendees are able to participate in the Volunteering WA State Conference and contribute to the conversations as panellists and participants, we invite regional volunteer managers and leaders to apply for a travel and accommodation subsidy thanks to support from Lotterywest.

Travel and accommodation
The Lotterywest subsidy is available to help cover travel (flights, fuel allowance, bus, train) and accommodation (2-3 nights) for regional volunteer managers to attend the 2025 Volunteering WA State Conference. Successful applicants will still need to pay for their ticket registration to attend the conference, unless Volunteering WA confirms in writing that there is funding available for partial or whole ticket reimbursements.

Registration support
Rural and regional attendees representing a not-for-profit organisation with an annual revenue of less than $1.5 million can also apply for a whole or partial subsidy of the conference registration.

The first round of subsidy applications are open until 28 July 2025.

Submit Subsidy Application

FUNDING POOL
 Volunteering WA will accept and announce successful recipients in rounds until funding is exhausted, to allow for people to secure accommodation and travel with as much notice as possible. Following each application round, Volunteering WA will confirm in writing the successful travel and/or accommodation expenses, and where eligible the part or whole registration. Successful applicants are selected on a needs basis, based on the answers to the questions in the application form.

ELIGIBILITY CRITERIA

General Terms

  • Volunteering WA will contact successful recipients in writing following each round.
  • If the conference is cancelled or postponed due to extenuating circumstances, the applicant must liaise directly with the accommodation and/or travel suppliers they booked to organise credits/refunds according to the suppliers’ policies.
  • If a successful applicant is unable to attend the conference, Volunteering WA is not able to provide a regional attendee subsidy, and the applicant must liaise directly with the accommodation and/or travel suppliers to organise credits/refunds according to the suppliers’ policies.
  • Successful applicants are chosen based on the answers to the questions in this form.
  • Subsidised tickets are NOT transferrable.
  • If a successful applicant is unable to attend the conference, they must inform Volunteering WA in writing no later than 14 days prior to the conference, so we can award this subsidy to another candidate.

Lotterywest Regional and Rural Attendee Subsidy

  • Applicants must live in regional or rural Western Australia.
  • Rural and regional attendees representing a not-for-profit organisation with an annual revenue of less than $1.5 million can also apply for a whole or partial subsidy of the conference registration.
  • The applicant agrees to pay for their travel and accommodation, and then provide receipts to Volunteering WA to reimburse the agreed amount following the conference.
  • Following the conference, the recipient must provide a testimonial sharing how the subsidy support allowed them to represent regional WA at this state-wide event.

Youth Registration Subsidy

  • Applicants must be between 18 – 30 years of age in 2025 and live in WA.
  • The Youth Subsidy covers ticket registration only, and the applicant is responsible for covering all other costs associated with attending this conference, including transport, travel and accommodation.


Please contact the Events Program Coordinator Savannah if you have any queries.

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