Deadline: 28-Feb-25
The Tasmanian Community Food Relief Grants Program’s purpose is to ease the pressure of putting food on the table for impacted Tasmanians, while helping food relief providers to increase service capacity.
The Grants Program is aimed at not-for-profit community organisations that currently provide direct food relief to increase food support options for members of their local Tasmanian community.
Funding Information
- Organisations can apply for up to $10,000 with a limit of one application per organisation, with a total funding pool of $500,000.
- Funding will be distributed to organisations from late April 2025, with projects expected to be completed by 30 September 2025.
Eligible Projects
- Funding is primarily for food relief, including ready-to-eat meals and/or food hampers.
- Ready-to-Eat Meals
- For ready-to-eat meals, funding may be provided for the:
- Purchase of ingredients and packaging to prepare ready-to-eat meals.
- Costs of delivery of pre-packaged meals.
- Purchase of additional storage items such as freezers or shelving to enable the organisation to provide food relief.
- Food Hampers
- For food hampers, funding may be provided for the:
- Purchase of food staples such as fresh fruit and vegetables, pasta, rice, cereal, flour, butter, milk, and including food for those with cultural, medical, or dietary needs (excluding alcohol).
- Costs of delivery of food hampers.
- Ready-to-Eat Meals
Eligibility Criteria
- The Grants Program is open to not-for-profit community organisations that currently provide direct food relief to members of local communities.
- For the purposes of this Grants Program, ‘local community’ is considered to be the local government municipal area. It is expected that the majority of people accessing those services live in the municipal area.
- Applicants must:
- Be a not-for-profit organisation that delivers food relief to Tasmanians; being an organisation that delivers community support, services and/or programs to Tasmanian’s; and
- Hold a currently active Australian Business Number (ABN);
- And be one of the following:
- An incorporated organisation, or auspiced by a not-for-profit legal entity;
- Other legal entity;
- A parents and friends association;
- A not-for-profit organisation; or
- A not-for-profit company registered under company law.
Ineligibility Criteria
- The following entities are not eligible to apply for funding under the Grants Program:
- Organisations that do not currently provide food relief to Tasmanians.
- Australian Government agencies.
- Tasmanian Government agencies.
- Local government authorities (councils).
- Tertiary institutions.
- Political parties.
- Individuals and/or sole traders; or for-profit organisations.
For more information, visit Tasmanian Government.