Category 3 ClubGRANTS expenditure

Under "Category 3" – a minimum of 0.4% of a club's gaming machine profits in excess of $1 million per annum, is automatically allocated to a Statewide funding pool – the "ClubGRANTS Fund" - to be used for large scale projects and services associated with sport, health and community infrastructure.

The guidelines define what is eligible Category 3 ClubGRANTS funding and establishes the ClubGRANTS Fund Committee including its functions, responsibilities and membership.

ClubGRANTS Funding

ClubGRANTS funding can be provided for designing, building, upgrading, renewing, funding or acquiring land or property for the following Category 3 projects and services (paragraph 3.1).

Sports

sports venues
sports facilities
sporting fields and grandstands
sports services and programs
recreational services, program and facilities

Health

hospitals
health services and facilities including community health
mental health services and facilities
healthy lifestyle projects and services
projects and services designed to reduce obesity

Community infrastructure

youth facilities
child care facilities
aged-care facilities
educational facilities
emergency services facilities
facilities for parks and recreation
community housing
community transport

Consideration must be given to providing Category 3 funding for projects and services which will benefit communities that are regional and remote; disadvantaged; culturally and linguistically diverse and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities.

Funding can also be provided to support other projects or services associated with sport, health or community infrastructure as determined by the Minister in consultation with ClubsNSW.

Projects and services that are funded under Category 1 and 2 cannot be funded under Category 3.

The Minister can approve payment from the ClubGRANTS Fund for reasonable costs incurred in administering and managing the fund (paragraph 3.2).

ClubGRANTS Fund Committee

The guidelines provide that the Minister is to establish a ClubGRANTS Fund Committee (paragraph 3.3) and determine its membership and how it is to operate. The guidelines specify that:

a ClubsNSW representative must be on the Committee;
the functions of the Committee are to:
- consider ClubGRANTS Fund applications for grants;
- develop mechanisms, including performance indicators, to monitor and evaluate the expenditure of funds approved by the Minister; and
- develop a model "Funding and Performance Agreement" for use for funded projects and services that receive ClubGRANTS Funds;
the Committee must provide the Minister with a report on the Committee's operations within 3 months of the end of each gaming machine tax year.