Deadline: 10-Dec-21
The Act Government is pleased to launch Healthy Canberra Grants: Focus on Reducing Risky Behaviours to provide funding for community-based activities to improve the health of Canberrans, with a focus on reducing risky behaviours, particularly Sexually Transmissible Infections and Blood Borne Viruses.
Applications should aim to address the lifestyle behaviours contributing to poor health outcomes and create supportive environments to improve and maintain positive health and wellbeing through collective community knowledge, skills, resources, and positive partnerships.
Priorities
The Healthy Canberra Grants funding priorities are informed by the Healthy Canberra: ACT Preventive Health Plan 2020-2025 (The Plan), which sets the foundations for reducing chronic disease and supporting good health across all stages of life. The Plan is a government-led, collaborative approach to prevention informed by the latest available evidence and the needs of the ACT population:
- Reducing Sexually Transmissible Infections and Blood Borne Viruses
- Tobacco Smoking
- Risky Drinking
Funding Information
- Healthy Canberra Grants: Focus on Reducing Risky Behaviours will provide up to $1.3 million in grants, for programs delivered from May 2022 through to December 2024.
- They aim to fund programs of sufficient scale to produce measurable, positive health benefits across the ACT population.
Priority Population Groups
- They know that some population groups have different health needs and priorities, and some experience the burden of disease greater than others.
- Healthy Canberra Grants: Focus on Reducing Risky Behaviours will therefore give priority to programs that focus on one or more of the following population groups:
- Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people (The ACT Health Directorate supports initiatives that contribute to improving local Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People’s health, consistent with the aims of the ACT Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Agreement 2019-2028);
- people with a physical or intellectual disability;
- people with a mental illness;
- people experiencing homelessness;
- people living with domestic and family violence;
- people who are lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans and gender diverse, intersex and/or questioning (LGBTIQ+); and
- people from culturally and linguistically diverse communities
Eligibility Criteria
Please note: Ineligible applications will not be assessed for funding. To be eligible, applicants must meet all the following criteria:
- The applicant organisation must be one of the following types:
- a not-for-profit organisation incorporated in the ACT under the Associations Incorporation Act 1991.
- a not-for-profit company limited by guarantee and incorporated under the Corporations Act 2001 (Commonwealth)
- a not-for-profit organisation with other legal status.
- an approved early childhood education and care service.
- an unincorporated not-for-profit organisation in an auspice arrangement with one of the above.
- Applicants (or auspice organisations) must have a current public liability insurance policy with cover of a minimum of $10 million per event. Applicants (or auspice organisations) without current insurance must provide evidence of a quotation for public liability insurance.
- Applicants (or auspice organisations) must have an ABN or provide evidence they have applied for one.
- Applicants must deliver grant funded activities in the ACT for ACT residents.
- Applicants must ensure that the declaration at the end of the application is made by the Chief Executive Officer, or equivalent, of the applicant organisation (or the auspice organisation if applicable). This person must have ultimate financial and management responsibility for the organisation
- Applicants (and auspice organisations) must not have overdue reporting requirements including financial acquittal for any previous ACT Government grant.
- Applicants (or auspice organisations) must be a viable legal entity as defined by the Australian Tax Office. Applicants may be asked to provide copies of recent audited financial statements to help support their claim of financial viability.
- Applicants (or auspice organisations) must not be an ACT Government school, independentschool, Catholic Systemic School or Catholic Non-systemic school.
- Applicants (or auspice organisations) must not be a Government Agency or Statutory Body.
- Applicants (or auspice organisations) must not be a political party.
Note: A not-for-profit organisation is an entity that is operating for its purpose and not for the profit or gain (either direct or indirect) of its individual members. The definition of not-forprofit applies both while the organisation is operating and if it closes down.
For more information, visit https://www.health.act.gov.au/about-our-health-system/healthy-living/act-health-promotion-grants-program