Noosa Council funding outside the grant rounds

The grants register shows what council awards through its grant rounds. Council also pays outside bodies through partnership, funding and service agreements, levies it passes to a named association, and one-off contributions. No grant round decides that money, so no outcome document lists it and none of it is on the grants page, although council's annual report counts some of it among its grants to community organisations. This register collects it: 542 figures for 157 recipients, 2013-14 to 2026-27, each taken from council's own budget papers, annual reports, minutes and officer reports.

The largest arrangements

Ranked by the largest single kind of figure. Each amount covers only the years we found that kind of figure for, listed beside it.

Organisations on both registers

57 organisations have grants on the grants register and were also paid outside the grant rounds. The two columns cover different years and different kinds of payment, so they are shown side by side, not compared as a ratio.

What the annual report has to say

The Local Government Regulation 2012 requires one disclosure here. Section 189(1), as currently in force:

The annual report for a financial year must contain a summary of the local government’s expenditure for the financial year on grants to community organisations.

A “community organisation” is an entity that carries on activities for a public purpose, or one whose primary object is not directed at making a profit (Schedule 8). “Grant” is not defined. The Regulation asks for a summary, and does not say whether money paid under a partnership, funding or service agreement is a grant.

Council's annual reports go further than a summary and print a table by recipient. What that table includes has varied: The Nature Conservancy's partnership payments and Zero Emissions Noosa's are in it. Tourism Noosa's funding agreement payments, the Noosa Biosphere Reserve Foundation's partnership funding, and the levies passed to the Noosa Junction and Hastings Street associations are not, in any year we hold. Where those bodies do appear in the table, it is for grants they won in council's grant rounds. That is a statement of what the tables contain. Whether the Regulation requires any of it is a question the text does not settle.

Every recipient

“Annual report only” marks recipients found only in the recipient tables of council's annual reports, under headings for service and management agreements (sports fields, halls, events) rather than grant programs.