Deadline: 3-Mar-23
The Northern Territory of Australia is seeking applications for Healthy Lifestyle Grants Program.
The Northern Territory Government is committed to enabling their communities to lead a healthy and active life across their lifetime. There is a close relationship between a community’s health and wellbeing, and the environments in which people grow, play, live, work and age. Investing in health enabling environments is one step governments can take to provide more opportunities and support people to participate in a healthy lifestyle.
Priority Funding Areas
- NT Health invites local government councils and non-government organisations in the NT to apply for a grant for locally led projects or activities that support a healthy lifestyle.
- Funding is available up to $30,000 for projects that address one or more of the following objectives;
- Increase opportunities for active living and physical activity and decrease sedentary behaviour
- Increase access to nutritious food and drinks and decrease access to unhealthy (discretionary) food and drinks
- Create supportive and healthy environments in places where people spend their time.
- Applicants must demonstrate their project proposal is able to meet one or more of these objectives and address a need in their workplace, community, or region.
Priority Populations
- Your project should aim to improve health outcomes in one or more of the following priority population groups;
- People from lower socioeconomic groups
- People living with disability
- First Nations people
- Inactive or semi-active groups
- People living with obesity
- People from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds
- LGBTIQA+ communities
- Children and young people.
Funding Information
- Funding is available up to $30,000.
What can be funded
- Projects/initiatives delivered within the Northern Territory
- Projects that promote or enable active living, increase physical activity or reduce sedentary activity (for example, growing participation in walking, cycling, active recreation and sport by minimising barriers to access)
- Projects that increase access to healthy food and drinks and limit access to, or remove, unhealthy food and drinks (for example, in catering, vending machines, cafes, canteens)
- Limited equipment. For example, water fountains installed in key locations to increase the consumption of water or exercise equipment in parks may be funded as part of a broader proposal. Physical activity equipment needs to fill a gap or significantly add to the available physical activity infrastructure and consider ongoing maintainence costs
- The implementation of policies that aim to create or support a health enabling environment in places people spend their time e.g. workplaces, childcare centres, schools, shops, parks, food outlets, community centres, leisure centres and sporting clubs
- Projects that address food insecurity
- Projects that improve the health and physical literacy of people living in the community
- Projects that partner with local businesses or community groups to build healthier communities
- Initiatives and/or programs that consider and reach priority populations
Eligibility Criteria
- Funding is available to not for profit organisations only.
- To be eligible for funding an organisation must
- be physically located and actively operating in the NT
- Types of organisations that are eligible for funding include
- Incorporated under and compliant with the Corporations (Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander) Act (Commonwealth)
- Incorporated under and compliant with the Associations Act 2003 (NT)
- A recognised local governing body established under the Local Government Act (NT).
Ineligible
- Types of organisations that are not eligible for funding include
- Individuals
- Tertiary education institutions, schools, school councils, student groups
- NT Government agencies
- Political organisations
- For profit groups / commercial organisations
- Organisations with outstanding NT Government grant acquittals
- Organisations that are not based in the NT.
For more information, visit Healthy Lifestyle Grants.