Deadline: 23-Apr-23
Applications are now open for the Seniors Month Grant Round 2023, an annual opportunity for organisations and businesses to apply for funding to support an event or activities for seniors held during the month long celebration in August of each year.
The Seniors Month Grant Round is administered by the Office of Senior Territorians (OST) within the Department of Territory Families, Housing and Communities.
Priorities
The Northern Territory Seniors Policy 2021-2026 includes outcomes and actions for four key priority areas:
- Economic Participation and Financial Security
- Safety and Security
- Health and Wellbeing
- Social Inclusion and Diversity
Objectives
The objectives of Seniors Month Grants are to:
- encourage older people to live healthy and active lifestyles all year round;
- demonstrate that older age can be a time of learning and adventure;
- celebrate older people and their continuing contribution to family, friends, workplaces and communities, and across generations.
Funding Information
- One-off grants of up to $2,000 are available through the Seniors Month Grants Round to assist community organisations and businesses holding an event or activities for seniors during Seniors Month in August 2023. These grants are designed to offset the cost of an event, not to fund it entirely.
What Seniors Month Grants can fund?
- Events that provide new opportunities for seniors to be involved in physical activities, such as ‘come-and-try events’;
- Events that will provide long term social benefits for seniors;
- Fun activities that celebrate seniors and their contribution and commitment to the community.
- Successful applicants are required to allow at least 50% of the available places in each event or activity be made available to people outside of the organisation. This ensures that activities are not booked out by members of the club/organisation before they are advertised to the general community.
Eligibility Criteria
- Community organisations who are:
- a legal entity under the Associations Act 2003 (NT); or if the applicant is not incorporated,
- an incorporated organisation may act as an auspicing body and may accept responsibility for administration, reporting and acquittal of the grant on the applicant’s behalf.
- Northern Territory businesses who are:
- registered as a business; and
- hold a specific Seniors Month event in addition to their normal business operations.
- Community organisations or businesses that have previously received Seniors Month Grants must have satisfactorily acquitted all Northern Territory Government grants to be eligible for consideration for a further grant.
Ineligible
- Usual club activities or business activities;
- Wages or salaries for course instructors or event facilitators in excess of 25% of the value of the grant;
- Events where participation is limited to members of particular groups;
- Purchase of capital equipment (e.g. televisions and stereos, computers etc);
- Programs or activities that are political or discriminatory;
- Events that encourage gambling or the consumption of alcohol.
For more information, visit Northern Territory Government.