Volunteer Grants are to encourage and support volunteers and provide funding of between $1,000 and $5,000 to help non-profit organisations to:

• contribute towards the costs of training courses for volunteers and/or undertaking background screening checks for volunteers; and/or

• purchase portable, tangible, small equipment items to help volunteers; and/or

• contribute towards fuel reimbursement for their volunteers, including those who use their cars to transport others to activities, deliver food and assist people in need.

Funding is limited and applications will be assessed and prioritised according to how strongly they meet the selection criteria. For more information go to the Volunteer Grants Website.

What better way to support volunteers than to provide them with a software tool to make their lives easier. If you have multiple organisation under your banner, perhaps a volunteer grant could be used to provide Admin Bandit. Good financial management benefits the whole organisation, not only the treasurers.