COVID-19 Crisis Round 2 2020/21

Submissions closed at 2:00PM 28 September 2020 (AEST).

About the COVID-19 Crisis Grant?

The COVID-19 Crisis Grant was established to help stations offset the loss of income through sponsorships, donations and events.

We've simplified the application and assessment processes to make it as easy and fast as possible to apply.

We expect funding to be made available in late October. 

What can the COVID-19 Crisis Grant be used for?

The grant can be used to cover organisational expenses incurred from 1 July 2020 to 30 June 2021. This includes:   

  • Operations – including salaries, sponsorship replacement costs, utility costs, administration
  • Activities – online training, business development, marketing
  • Equipment costs – including equipment that enables broadcasters to adhere to social distancing requirements and to work from home
  • Production/transmission/administration equipment, website/software costs
  • Administration for the grant up to $1,000.

Who can apply?

You will be able to apply for this grant if you are a:

  • community radio station  
  • community television station  
  • Remote Indigenous Media Organisation
  • Remote Indigenous Broadcasting Service. 

How will the grant be assessed?

Unlike our usual grants, the COVID-19 Crisis Grant applications won't be assessed competitively.

Instead, the grant amount will be determined by a calculation based on each organisation's annual expenditure. This figure will then be adjusted to take into account:

  1. any other CBF COVID-19 Crisis and Development & Operations grants an organisation has already received this year
  2. that the combined total is no more than 50% of the organisation's annual total expenditure.*

Due to the limited funds available, no organisation will receive more than $30,000 across both COVID-Crisis Grant rounds. 

*For this reason, organisations that have already received significant support this year through the first round of COVID-19 Crisis and Development & Operations grants are unlikely to receive support in this grant round.

Talk to us 

Please get in touch if you have any questions about this grant, your eligibility or you need assistance applying. If you'd prefer to apply for the grant using a word processing document let us know.

Jon King (VIC/TAS/CTV)
03 8341 5966 
jking@cbf.com.au  

Dean Linguey (QLD/SA/NT/WA)  
03 8341 5988  
dlinguey@cbf.com.au  

 Liz Landray (NSW/ACT) 
03 8341 5944 
liz@cbf.com.au 

Further information

SmartyGrants Guide for Applicants