Feral Cat Management Grants

What do you get?

In 2024, between $10,000 and $250,000 was available through the Feral Cat Management Grants.

Overall, the program offers a total of $2,000,000 of grant funding available over 4 years for feral cat management activities.

Who is this for?

Applicants from the following groups or organisations were encouraged to apply:

• Aboriginal community organisations including Registered Native Title Bodies Corporate
• incorporated associations and not-for-profit companies and trusts, including most community, landcare, and NRM groups, Recognised Biosecurity Groups and grower groups
• Land Conservation District Committees
• local government authorities
• primary and secondary schools.

Overview

Key features of the 2024 Feral Cat Management Grants are:

• Grants must address one or more of the objectives of Western Australian Feral Cat Strategy.
• Maximum grant request up to $250,000, with a minimum request of $10,000.
• Grant funded projects must have a duration of less than 36 months (3 years).
• Grants can be used to fund a wide range of community-based feral cat management activities that will achieve on-ground native fauna conservation outcomes directly, improve methods or technologies through research and development, or improve an organisation’s capacity for feral cat management.  
• Grants are not applicable to domestic cat management.
• Grant applications with lethal or baited activities will require relevant permits, authorities and/or indemnities.

Eligibility

To be eligible to apply, applicants must be an incorporated not-for-profit organisation with an ABN.

Projects must be based within the state of Western Australia. Applications for project activities in Australian territories (for example, Christmas Island and Cocos (Keeling) Islands) are ineligible.

The following groups are ineligible:

• for profit organisations, partnerships or companies including sole traders
• individuals
• organisations that do not have a branch or base of operation in Western Australia
• tertiary education institutions such as universities (government and privately funded), monotechnics, polytechnics or colleges
• unincorporated associations*
• Western Australian or Australian Government agencies.

*Unincorporated associations can seek funding via a project sponsor (an eligible organisation that applies on behalf of the unincorporated association). More information on sponsorship is provided in the 2024 Community Stewardship Grants Guidelines.