Community sponsorship

Get your application on time – do not miss out

Not surprisingly though, our community support is very popular.

We get lots of sponsorship applications and unfortunately cannot accept them all. So it is very important to get your application in well ahead of time.

2020

Round 1 (for community sponsorship in January – June 2020)

This sponsorship round closed in October 2019.

Round 2 (for community sponsorship in July – December 2020)

This sponsorship round closed in March 2020.

2021

Round 1 (for requests in January – June 2021)

Applications will be accepted between 1 and 31 September. All applications for this round will be assessed during the first week of October. Applications will be notified by the second week of October 2020.

Please note Round 1 community sponsorship applications for events from January – June 2021 will be reviewed in light of the evolving coronavirus (COVID-19) situation.

Round 2 (for community sponsorship in July – December 2021)

Applications will be accepted between 1 and 30 March 2021. All applications for this round will be assessed during the first week of April 2020. Applications will be notified by the second week of April 2020.

Getting our support is as easy as one, two, three… 

• Check the community sponsorship eligibility criteria below.
• Complete your Community sponsorship application form.
• Read our terms and conditions.

Community sponsorship eligibility criteria

To be eligible to receive a community sponsorship, your event must fit into all of the following six criteria:

• Your event will be held in City West Water's service area (Brimbank, Hobsons Bay, Maribyrnong, Melbourne [north of the Yarra River], Moonee Valley, Wyndham, Yarra and parts of Melton and Hume.
• Your organisation has not-for-profit status.
• Your event will have an opportunity to educate participants on the value of water, how to use it wisely or how to reduce single use plastic water bottles.
• Your event will recognise City West Water as an Event Partner on the event’s website/web page at least two weeks prior to the event/program.
• Your event will promote City West Water as an Event Partner on at least one event-related social media channel (eg Facebook, Instagram or Twitter) at least one week prior to the event/program.
• Your event shares three high resolution event/program-related images with City West Water within five business days of the event’s completion with authorisation to use these images for promotional purposes.