Deadline: 7-Dec-21
VicHealth is currently accepting applications for The Big Connect to support the mental health and wellbeing of Victoria’s young people through the creation of 100,000+ new social connection opportunities.
The Big Connect integrates sector capability building, educational support for families and a public-facing health promotion campaign.
Through The Big Connect, VicHealth will invest in organisations across Victoria who know their local areas better than anyone and know how to make change happen. Organisations who are ready to make a big difference. This could be in a geographic area or for group of people with similar challenges around being connected.
VicHealth is looking for major programs/ideas that increase access to opportunities for Victoria’s children and young people (aged 0-25 including families) to build meaningful social connections. Successful, proven projects and new innovations will receive capacity building and financial support to scale up sustainably, delivering great benefit for the mental wellbeing of young people – now and into the future.
Funding Information
- Up to $5m is available as part of The Big Connect to fund projects that increase access to opportunities for Victoria’s children and young people (aged 0-25 including families) to build meaningful social connections.
- The minimum funding amount is $100,000 and the maximum funding amount is $250,000 for projects to be delivered over a maximum 18-month period.
- Payments will be spread across the life of the project, depending on the timeframe or length of the project that is proposed in the application. For projects proposing the full 18-month timeframe, a maximum of $50,000 will be available in the final 6 months of the project.
Eligibility Criteria
VicHealth anticipates that a wide range of organisations will be in a position to develop and deliver solutions that will create meaningful social connection including (but not limited to):
- art and cultural organisations
- community food sector
- community sporting clubs
- sports leagues/associations
- peak sporting bodies
- organisations who work with hardly reached groups including disability communities, LGBTIQ communities, culturally and linguistically diverse communities and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities
- organisations that see health promotion as part of their core work.
- youth organisations
- other recreation and creative organisations.
For more information, visit https://www.vichealth.vic.gov.au/funding/the-big-connect