Deadline: 14-Feb-2025
The Regina Brindle Grant Program honors Regina Brindle’s significant contributions to promoting consumer voices in the alcohol and other drug (AOD) and mental health and wellbeing (MHW) sectors in Victoria.
Aims
- The project addresses at least two of the following aims:
- Promote consumer voice
- Address barriers to social inclusion experienced by AOD and/or MH and wellbeing consumers
- Promote community engagement and education
- Reduce stigma and discrimination
- Promote human rights
Funding Information
- Each year they award a grant of up to $5,000 to a project that elevates consumers’ voices and/or supports community connectedness and engagement.
Eligibility Criteria
- You are eligible to apply for the grant if:
- You are an individual or small group wanting funding for a project you have designed and will deliver.
- You are either a past or present service user and/or (b) you have lived or living experience of issues relating to your AOD use and mental health and/or (c) you are a family member, partner or supporter of a person accessing services or with lived and living experience of AOD and mental health issues.
- The project will be delivered in Victoria. The project lead has lived in Victoria for more than 12 months.
- The project lead is 18 years or over.
- You can provide two referees for the project.
- Your project commences after the 27 March 2025 and before 30 November 2025.
- You agree to provide an acquittal that includes tracking of expenditure, a summary of your project’s outcomes, and evidence of project delivery, such as participant feedback and photographs of program delivery where possible.
- The project is new or a significant development of an existing project.
- You agree to SHARC promoting your project in the internal and external promotions.
For more information, visit SHARC.
