Regional Capability Community Fund (Australia)

Funding Information

• The RCCF will reimburse between $200 to $3,000 (GST inclusive) to farmers and farming businesses to purchase equipment to support the safe use of Farm Fire Units (FFU).

Eligible Equipment

• Items eligible for reimbursement include:
  • Tank with a minimum water capacity of 400L and with fill point for water for use on vehicle
  • Water pump for use on vehicle
  • Hose and branch for use on vehicle
  • Farm Fire Unit (i.e., compact fire units or slip on skid units)
  • Fire rated personal protective clothing (i.e., gloves, heavy duty cotton or natural fibre shirt/jacket/pants, closed leather work boots, helmets and P2 or above rated dust masks)
  • First aid kits (specifically with burns kit included)
  • Fire blankets
  • UHF/CB radios
  • Amber rotating beacon
  • Heat shields

Ineligible Equipment

• Ineligible items for reimbursement are:
  • vehicle modifications or repairs to existing farm firefighting equipment
  • equipment that is not part of a CFS registered FFU
  • the purchase of a vehicle for the purposes of being an FFU
  • fixed water tanks and/or associated water pumps and hoses that are located on properties for domestic, agriculture or livestock use, and do not form part of a CFS registered FFU
  • equipment and items that have already been purchased (prior to grant approval)

Who can apply?

• Farm firefighting occurs primarily on farmers’ and their neighbours’ properties during blazes and is essential for continued monitoring after emergency services have handed properties back to their owners. FFUs are mainly intended for use in open country, and are specifically recommended in some codes of practices relating to potentially high-risk activities such as grain harvesting.
• Applications will be accepted from:
  • Individual farmers
  • Farming businesses or rural landholders
  • Rural community groups (Note: Applications from rural community groups will only be eligible for reimbursement for shared use fire rated personal protective clothing).

For more information, visit Government of South Australia.