Deadline: 11-Mar-22
The Business Victoria has announced Mental Wellbeing of Business Communities Grants Program, this grants program supports business communities to develop and deliver dedicated programs to improve the mental health and wellbeing of their members.
Objectives
- Objectives of the Mental Wellbeing of Business Communities Grant Program include:
- Improve mental wellbeing, resilience and recovery in Business Communities
- Enable collaboration, connections and networks in Business Communities
- Educate, inform and empower Business Communities in mental wellbeing
- Increase the uptake of other Victorian business oriented mental health support programs.
Funding Information
- Up to 200 grants of $15,000 are also available for delivery of community-led mental wellbeing projects.
Eligible Projects
- Grant funds must be used by recipients to support their Business Community by undertaking activities that align with the program objectives.
- Examples of eligible activities include:
- Supporting and encouraging local business collaboration activities or programs
- Engaging small businesses to co-design programs to improve mental wellbeing, including promotional activities
- Undertaking activities that will start, build on and/or extend work in the Business Community to promote mental wellbeing of small businesses
- Setting up mental wellbeing focus working groups
- helping to improve small business workplace mental wellbeing, resilience and recovery in a COVID environment.
Eligibility Criteria
- This program includes a free mental wellbeing training course and $15,000 grant.
- To be eligible for the program, the Business Community or local government authority must:
- be a local government authority or an organisation that represents a specific cohort of Victorian businesses or businesses in a defined geographic area
- Be based in Victoria or be the Victorian chapter of a national organisation
- Be a not-for-profit organization
- Hold a current Australian Business Number (ABN)
- Be registered with the responsible federal or state regulator.
- Unincorporated organisations and organisations with an ABN registered after
- 1 January 2021 will be required to have an auspice organisation enter into the grant agreement on their behalf.
- Recipients of grants under the Business Chambers and Trader Groups program in
- Round one or round two are eligible to apply.
For more information, visit https://business.vic.gov.au/grants-and-programs/mental-wellbeing-of-business-communities-grants-program
