Australia: Healthy Canberra Grants

Deadline: 14-Feb-24

The ACT Health’s Healthy Canberra Grants provide funding to community-based organisations to improve the health of Canberrans and minimise the risk of them developing chronic diseases.

Healthy Canberra Grants (HCG) aim to reduce risk factors associated with chronic disease, through provision of funding opportunities for community organisations to develop and deliver community-based activities that create supportive environments to improve the health and wellbeing of Canberrans.

Funding Priorities

• The Healthy Canberra Grants: Focus on Vaping Cessation and Reducing Alcohol-Related Harm round hopes to support successful applicants that have capacity to deliver larger scale programs and propose multifaceted and evidence-based approaches which aim to achieve a reduction of vaping in cohorts with a high prevalence of vaping, namely people aged 12 to 24 years, and/or reduce alcohol-related harms, particularly within priority population groups.
• The round will give priority to programs that address one or more of the outlined key priorities and demonstrate harnessing community knowledge and positive partnerships.
• Vaping
  • Key funding priorities:
    • Reducing the number of people who vape in cohorts with a high prevalence of vaping; and
    • Preventing the uptake of e-cigarettes and reducing vaping related harms, especially in young people aged 12-24 years.
  • Evidence of need is continually emerging regarding e-cigarettes; applications will be considered for any age cohorts shown to have a high prevalence or concerning trend of vaping or vaping related harms.
• Alcohol
  • Key funding priorities:
    • delay uptake in alcohol consumption;
    • reduce the risk of single occasion drinking harm; and
    • reduce the risk of alcohol-related harm from preconception, throughout pregnancy and breastfeeding.
  • Excessive consumption of alcohol has both immediate and longer- term health effects ranging from loss of function, ill health, injury, and disease to premature death. There are also far reaching social and economic impacts that affect not only the individual, but families and communities as well. Alcohol-related harm is responsible for a significant burden on their health system, not only because of disease but also through hospitalisations and Emergency Department presentations for the treatment of injuries and associated ill health.

Funding Information

• The Healthy Canberra Grants: Focus on Reducing Alcohol, Tobacco and Vaping related Harm will provide funding of up to $2 million in funding, for programs to be delivered for up to 3 years (June 2024 to June to December 2026).

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. Priority will be given to programs that link with 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+).
  • people from culturally and linguistically diverse communities.

Eligibility Criteria

• 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 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 $20 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, independent school, 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.

For more information, visit ACT Health.