
Grants programs
Healthy Tasmania Fund - new
The Healthy Tasmania Fund is a grants program for health and wellbeing in Tasmania. The Fund supports the work of local government and community organisations that are well placed to know their community needs and priorities.
The Government has committed $8 million over four years for the Fund. A key action of the Healthy Tasmania Plan 2022-26 was the review of the Healthy Tasmania Fund.
At the Healthy Literacy Forum on 28 September, we launched the new Healthy Tasmania Fund.
We have made some changes to the Fund based on community feedback, evidence and local research.
We talked with other funders to better understand the wider funding landscape. We want to make the Fund part of a broader, more coordinated way to fund communities to act on health and wellbeing.
Say hello to the new fund. It includes a range of funding options and capacity building activities to support more sustainable outcomes at a community level.
Watch a short video explaining the new Healthy Tasmania Fund below.
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Do you have any questions? Get in touch with us.
Find out more about the Healthy Tasmania Fund and funding available, with questions from attendees, in the recorded online information session below:
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Help for people with hearing or speech difficulties
Contact Healthy Tasmania through the National Relay Service (NRS). For more information, visit the NRS website to choose your preferred access point or call the NRS Helpdesk on 1800 555 660. This is a free service.
Using Interpreters
Tasmania has a rich cultural diversity. Are you planning to work with interpreters in your project?
Healthy Tasmania wants to support all Tasmanians to access projects. To do this, Healthy Tasmania will cover the cost of providing interpreter services for your project (for non-government organisations not eligible for the Free Interpreting Service).
Please make contact to discuss and organise additional funding.
Helpful resources
Previous grants
Previous Healthy Tasmania Fund rounds
The previous rounds of the Healthy Tasmania Fund awarded nearly $5 million to over 50 community organisations and local governments for projects that focussed on:
- reducing smoking,
- improving healthy eating,
- being more physically active,
- building community connections and
- improving mental health and wellbeing.
Large Grants ($30,001 to $200,000)
Organisation |
Project Title |
Region |
Priority Area/s |
Amount Awarded |
---|---|---|---|---|
Australian Red Cross |
Connected Women Tasmania |
State-wide |
PA, MH&W |
$199 997 |
Bicycle Network Tasmania |
Back on your Bike |
State-wide |
PA, MH&W |
$89 400 |
Bucaan Community House Inc. |
Chigwell Healthy Living Project |
South |
HE, PA, MH&W |
$122 660 |
Circular Head Aboriginal Corporation |
Lifestyle and Mind Balance (L.A.M.B) |
North West |
HE, PA, RS, MH&W |
$200 000 |
Council on the Ageing (TAS) Inc. |
Staying Strong - health and fitness for older Tasmanians |
State-wide |
PA, MH&W |
$177 374 |
Glenorchy City Council |
Glenorchy on the Go - Healthy Mind, Healthy Body |
South |
HE, PA, RS, MH&W |
$45 670 |
Grace Christian Church Inc. |
Community Kitchen and Traineeship Provider |
South |
HE, PA, MH&W |
$198 400 |
Huon Valley Council |
Huon Valley Food Hub |
South |
HE, MH&W |
$192 500 |
Launceston City Mission Inc. |
Mission Health & Wellbeing (MHW) |
North + North West |
HE, PA, RS, MH&W |
$200 000 |
Life Without Barriers |
Fostering Better Mental Health |
State-wide |
MH&W |
$200 000 |
National Disability Services Ltd. |
Improving Healthy Eating for People with Disability |
State-wide |
HE |
$179 768 |
Rotary Club of Devonport South-East |
East Devonport Heritage Walk |
North West |
PA, MH&W |
$40 440 |
South East Tasmanian Aboriginal Corporation |
Strong Culture Strong Youth |
South |
HE, PA, RS, MH&W |
$87 450 |
Volunteering Tasmania Inc |
Leading Mental Health and Wellbeing in Volunteer Workforces |
State-wide |
MH&W |
$188 622 |
Women's Health Tasmania Inc. |
Friends this Weigh |
State-wide |
PA, MH&W |
$43 530 |
Working It Out Incorporated |
Working It Out Together |
State-wide |
MH&W |
$108 000 |
Small Grants (up to $30,000)
Organisation |
Project Title |
Region |
Priority Area/s |
Amount Awarded |
---|---|---|---|---|
Derwent Estuary Program Limited |
Greater Hobart Trails website upgrade |
South |
PA, MH&W |
$30 000 |
East Coast Regional Development Organisation Inc. |
Keep On Growing - Beyond the Garden Beds |
South |
HE, PA, MH&W |
$14 325 |
Live Well Tasmania Inc. |
Live Well: connecting the community for mental and physical health |
North West |
HE, PA, MH&W |
$29 172 |
May Shaw Health Centre Inc. |
'"Get Into It". Healthy Heart, Healthy Mind. |
North |
HE, PA, MH&W |
$30 000 |
Oatlands Community Association Inc |
Southern Midlands Meals Initiative |
South |
HE, PA, MH&W |
$29 800 |
Port Sorell Surf Lifesaving Club Inc |
PSSLSC - Bringing the Community to the Beach |
North West |
PA, MH&W |
$14 200 |
Second Echo Ensemble Inc. |
Circuit Breaker: A Health and Wellbeing program for Tasmanian Creatives |
South |
PA, MH&W |
$30 000 |
Southern Midlands Council |
Wombat Woodland Walk |
South |
PA, MH&W |
$29 250 |
Veterans and Community Wood Centre Inc. |
Healthy Shed |
North |
HE, PA, RS, MH&W |
$25 000 |
West Coast MTB Club Tasmania Inc. |
Bike It Better |
North West |
PA, MH&W |
$10 140 |
Large Grants ($50,001 to $200,000)
Organisation |
Project Title |
Region |
Priority Area/s |
Amount Awarded |
---|---|---|---|---|
Burnie Community House Inc |
Make Your Move a Men's DIY Toolkit to Live Well |
North West |
HE, PA, O&O |
$94,062 |
Cancer Council of Tasmania Inc |
559 Lives |
State-wide |
RS |
$200,000 |
Carers Tasmania Inc |
Healthy Communities Mentor Program |
State-wide |
RS, HE, PA, O&O |
$180,649 |
Dunalley Tasman Neighbourhood House Inc |
Barter and Buy Food Boxes |
South |
HE |
$123,624 |
Eat Well Tasmania Inc |
What’s in Season Tasmania Social Marketing and Champion Building Campaign |
State-wide |
HE, O&O |
$200,000 |
George Town Council |
Healthy George Town Year 2 & 3 |
North |
RS, HE, PA, O&O |
$194,945 |
Health Action Team Central Highlands (HATCH) |
Highlands Healthy Connect Project |
South |
HE, PA |
$178,000 |
Jordan River Service Inc |
Food for Communities - the Southern Partnership Project |
South |
HE, PA, O&O |
$200,000 |
Migrant Resource Centre (Southern TAS) Inc |
Multicultural Kitchen - A recipe for healthy communities |
State-wide |
HE |
$65,536 |
Tasmanian Aboriginal Corporation |
makara patapa: Stop Smoking |
State-wide |
RS |
$131,000 |
Waratah Wynyard Council |
Breathe, Eat, Move & Relax for a Healthy Lifestyle |
North West |
RS, HE, PA |
$180,821 |
Small Grants (up to $30,000)
Anglicare Tasmania Inc |
Eat Right, Move Right, Live Right |
North |
HE, PA |
$22,090 |
---|---|---|---|---|
Arthritis Foundation of Tasmania Inc |
Taking the first step (help to get yourself moving) |
State-wide |
PA, O&O |
$48,140 |
Cornerstone Youth Services Inc |
Cornerstone Youth Services Nutrition Capacity Building Project |
North |
HE, O&O |
$47,000 |
Devonport City Council |
Devonport Commuter Cycling Initiative |
North West |
PA, O&O |
$15,670 |
Flinders Council |
Island Life - Furneaux Healthy Food & Lifestyle Program |
North |
HE, O&O |
$10,000 |
Glenhaven Family Care Inc |
Meals for Home |
North West |
HE, O&O |
$17,132 |
Hobart City Council |
Loving Life at Youth ARC |
South |
RS, HE, PA |
$24,109 |
Jireh House Association Inc |
Time I Got Active |
South |
RS, HE, PA |
$23,050 |
Launceston Police and Community Youth Club Inc |
Youth Adventure Club |
North |
RS, HE, PA, O&O |
$50,000 |
Northern Midlands Council |
Active Northern Midlands Youth |
North |
PA, O&O |
$34,410 |
Polish Association in Hobart Inc |
Fitness Fun 4 Seniors |
South |
PA |
$15,000 |
Womensport and Recreation Tasmania Inc |
Get Active Program Mary Hutchinson Women's Prison |
South |
RS, HE, PA, O&O |
$21,200 |
Working It Out Incorporated |
Everyone can play |
State-wide |
PA |
$42,000 |
Zeehan Neighbourhood Centre |
Summer wellbeing program |
North West |
PA |
$6,000 |
Healthy Tasmania Community Innovation Grants
The Tasmanian Government provided $1 million over two rounds of the Healthy Tasmania Community Innovations Grants in 2017 and 2018–19 to support community activities that improve health and wellbeing as part of the Healthy Tasmania Strategy. Seed funding of up to $25 000 awarded to selected projects addressed physical activity, healthy eating or smoking cessation, all with a focus on building community connections.
The Healthy Tasmania Community Innovations grants supported community partnership approaches to new and innovative activities that promote better health.
The community-based grants were one of 24 actions under the Healthy Tasmania Five Year Strategic Plan 2016–2021.
Organisation |
Priority Area addressed (all address community connections) |
Region |
Project Summary |
---|---|---|---|
Carers Tasmania |
Healthy Eating |
Statewide |
Care to Cook – connect carers in the community by providing informal carers in outlying communities with the skills to produce quick, healthy, budget conscious meals. |
Colony 47 |
Healthy Eating Physical Activity |
South |
Fit for the Future – developing positive long-term lifestyle choices for at risk youth. |
Dorset Council |
Physical Activity |
North |
R & R – Ride and Reconnect pilot program aims to increase physical activity levels and health outcomes for Dorset young people through a program that builds knowledge, skills, and community connections. |
Drug Education Network |
Reduce Smoking |
North |
Tobacco Free Communities George Town – community-based program to support people in local communities to become smoke-free by providing voucher-based incentives and cessation support |
Eastcoast Regional Development Organisation |
Healthy Eating Physical Activity Reduce Smoking |
South |
Keep Growing, Have Fun! – provide gardening, workshops, picnics and community gatherings to achieve low cost, healthy living, whilst celebrating personal journeys that achieve these goals. |
Eat Well Tasmania |
Healthy Eating |
Statewide |
Tasty Tasmania YouTube Channel – create videos content for healthy seasonal recipes developed by community organisations and Tasmanians to be hosted on a unique Tasmanian only YouTube Channel. |
Flinders Council |
Healthy Eating Physical Activity |
North |
Lady Barron Let's Get Physical – promoting physical activity through supervised and supported twice weekly gym sessions. |
George Town Council |
Healthy Eating Physical Activity Reduce Smoking |
North |
Healthy George Town – will be a community driven partnership with the aim of improving the health and wellbeing of residents of the George Town Community through the provision of physical activities, healthy eating & nutrition classes, wellbeing classes – yoga. |
George Town Neighbourhood House |
Physical Activity |
North |
Ninja Warrior Course – promoting physical activity in our community for children and adults by installing a ninja warrior course for daily use and running. |
Glenorchy City Council |
Healthy Eating Physical Activity Reduce Smoking |
South |
Live Well, Live Long – program that takes a holistic approach to the wellness of older people, with a focus on maintaining independence, and contributing to significant lifestyle changes. |
Good Neighbour Council Launceston |
Physical Activity |
North |
Healthier for Longer – facilitated, weekly group gentle exercise program for elderly and young migrants with disabilities that improves their physical and mental health outcomes and maintains their connections to community. |
Huon Valley Council |
Healthy Eating Physical Activity |
South |
Give It a Go – Dover After School Activities – promote physical activity and healthy eating through a fun and engaging weekly after school program for children and young people in the Dover area. |
King Island Child Care & Early Learning Centre |
Healthy Eating Physical Activity |
North West |
Growing Healthy Children on King Island –promote healthy eating and as a community ensure all children have access to correct amounts regarding dietary guidelines of fruit and vegetables and enhance children’s knowledge of a healthy diet. |
Launceston Community FM Group |
Healthy Eating Physical Activity Reduce Smoking |
Statewide |
Health Speak – 30 episode audio series for broadcast, podcast and online making preventative-health information and strategies accessible and relevant for people with low literacy/health literacy and/or poor health. |
Live Well Tasmania |
Healthy Eating Physical Activity |
North West |
Workshops and building support networks for healthy eating and physical exercise promotion – 10 workshops in Penguin and Wynyard and facilitate the building of supportive networks to promote healthy eating and physical exercise. |
Live Well Tasmania |
Healthy Eating Physical Activity |
North West |
Engaging underactive youth in new types of physical exercise and healthy eating in Wynyard – school holiday activities focussing on mountain bike riding, kayaking, and healthy food, run monthly training sessions, and run a Duathlon and Aquathon. |
Masonic Care Tasmania |
Reduce Smoking |
Statewide |
‘Have Grit & Quit’ with Masonic Care Tasmania – program will provide more than 5 000 people across Tasmania with the opportunity to help reduce and quit smoking. |
National Stroke Foundation |
Healthy Eating Physical Activity |
North/North West |
Taking the Pressure Down – reducing high blood pressure through digital health checks – using innovative digital health checks to guide and encourage Tasmanians to measurably reduce blood pressure and make healthy life choices and changes. |
Northern Suburbs Community Centre |
Healthy Eating Physical Activity Reduce Smoking |
North |
Healthy Shed – R-MACS – an innovative healthy lifestyle project for men living in the northern suburbs of Launceston, designed to activate the new Rocherlea Men’s and Community Shed (R-MACS). |
Parkrun |
Physical Activity |
Statewide |
Continued expansion of parkrun in Tasmania – increase rates of physical activity and volunteering in Tasmania through the launch of four new weekly parkrun events. |
Richmond Fellowship Tasmania |
Healthy Eating Physical Activity |
Statewide |
Get Active Richmond Fellowship Tasmania –implement program focusing on nutrition, physical activity and wellbeing with a variety of mental health consumers state-wide. |
Sorell Council |
Physical Activity |
South |
Orielton Lagoon Loop Pathway – construct an additional loop in conjunction with the existing Orielton Lagoon Loop pathway. This will provide a flat unchallenging exercise area for seniors, children, pram walkers, joggers and cyclists. |
St Helens Little Athletics Centre |
Physical Activity |
North |
Resurface Running Track, Athletic Grounds – provide a high standard track for our athletes that is level and safe. |
Volunteering Tasmania |
Healthy Eating |
Statewide |
Meals on Wheels: The next generation – Meals on Wheels will partner with Volunteering Tasmania to attract and retain a younger generation of volunteers to deliver healthy meals to Tasmanians in need. |
Organisation |
Priority Area addressed (noting that all had to address community connections) |
Region |
Comment |
---|---|---|---|
Bothwell Wellness Group - Connecting Our Isolated Community Through Physical Activity |
Physical Activity |
South |
Focus on connecting isolated communities through physical activity. |
Child Health Association Tas - Tasmanian Bush Food Garden to Plate |
Healthy Eating |
South |
Highly innovative project based at tagari lia Aboriginal Child and Family Centre in Bridgewater using existing demonstration bush food garden and Aboriginal community stories. Focused on children 0-5 and their families. |
Clarence City Council - Walkable Futures Clarence |
Physical Activity |
South |
Walkability audit framework developed at Clarence City Council in partnership with Heart Foundation and community participants. Resource to be shared more broadly and shape council expenditure to improve liveability in areas vulnerable to poor health outcomes |
Devonport City Council - Square Peg Project |
Physical Activity/Healthy Eating |
NW |
Health and wellbeing project focused on young people at risk of social exclusion. |
Drug Education Network - Tobacco Free Communities - Target: Glamorgan Spring Bay |
Tobacco Cessation |
North |
Innovative approach to supporting quitting, building on evidence for effectiveness in recent trial with pregnant women. |
Eat Well Tasmania Inc - Eat Well Tasmania Social Marketing Campaign |
Healthy Eating |
Statewide |
Social marketing campaign to encourage Tasmanians to eat local and seasonally grown fruit and vegetables. Will closely align with the Healthy Tasmania Challenge #Vegitup and #GetFruity weeks. |
Geeveston Community Centre - The Cycle of Food |
Healthy Eating |
South |
Focus on low income participants and building on the success of previous programs in the region. Developing partnerships with local producers. |
Health Advisory Team Central Highlands - Highlands Food Connect Project |
Healthy Eating |
South |
Aims to improve access and supply of healthy affordable food, and build engagement and skills. Focus on people on low incomes and older people, especially those living alone and those in isolated areas. |
Hobart City Council - Healthy Hobart Goes Dark |
Physical Activity |
South |
Innovative community based health promotion program aimed at increasing physical activity during winter. Aligns health promotion with a successful social festival. |
Hobart City Farm Inc - Fresh Connections |
Healthy Eating |
South |
Partnering with local neighbourhood houses to build the existing social enterprise (production farm to local fresh affordable local supply), increase reach and reduce barriers to access. |
Hub4Health - Break O'Day Active 4 Life |
Physical Activity |
North |
Will build on the Active4Life Community Gym established in St Marys in 2016. Will promote new community connections and enhance and expand participation in physical activity through the development of a new Active4Life gym facility in St Helens and by providing improved levels of access to the resources available at programs to the St Marys Active4Life facility. |
Jordan River Service Inc - Waterbridge Food Co-Op |
Healthy Eating |
South |
Building capacity of Waterbridge Food Co-op to increase reach and sustainability. |
Kingborough Council - Empowering Seniors Program |
Physical Activity |
South |
Focus on regionally isolated and at-risk seniors. Outreach of a successful existing physical activity program. |
Launceston City Mission - #Mission2Quit |
Tobacco Cessation |
North |
Focus on staff and volunteers to support their own quit efforts and build capacity to support clients to quit through brief interventions training. |
Mountain Bike Australia - Mountain Bike Skills Clinics for Women and Girls |
Physical Activity |
Statewide |
Clinic to introduce activity of mountain biking to women and girls. |
Migrant Resource Centre - Developing Community Connections for Migrant and Refugee Families |
Physical Activity/Healthy Eating |
North |
Focus on people from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds who are recent arrivals. Aimed at improving knowledge of and access to physical activities and healthy eating for these groups. |
Migrant Resource Centre South - MY Swim to Sports |
Physical Activity |
South |
Focused on people from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds with low English language levels. Aimed at understanding and overcoming barriers to participation in physical activity through pathways to sporting clubs and infrastructure. Focus on swimming due to recognised importance of skills in this area. |
New Horizons Club Inc - All Abilities Sport to go Statewide |
Physical Activity |
Statewide |
Dedicated all-sports club for people with disabilities building on successful program offered in the north to address recognised gap in Southern Tasmania. Working in partnership with a range of sporting clubs. |
PARKRUN Inc - Park Run Expansion in Tasmania |
Physical Activity |
North West |
Will establish three new parkrun events in Tasmania. These free, weekly, timed 5km events will be operated by local volunteers in local communities, parkrun. This project encourages physical activity, volunteering and community connectedness. |
Starting Point Neighbourhood House - Healthy Shed |
Physical Activity/Healthy Eating |
North |
Designed to activate newly established men and community shed in Ravenwood. Focus on men with a program to support smoking cessation, increased physical activity and healthy eating. Targeting up to 50 men over a 14 week program. |
Tasdeaf - Healthy Living for Tasmanians Who are Deaf |
Physical Activity/Healthy Eating |
Statewide |
Healthy Eating and physical activity information presented in Auslan – first language of people who are Deaf. Will produce a resource tailored to the Deaf community in partnership with content experts through existing partnerships. |
Tasmanian Aboriginal Group - Kipli nayri takariliya rrala (KNTR) Good Food, Strong Families |
Healthy Eating |
Statewide |
Delivering a culturally appropriate short course on nutrition and physical activity through community connections and stories. The focus will be on the Tasmanian Aboriginal community in 7 locations throughout Tasmania with the aim of further reach through trained champions and new resources in palawa kani (Tasmanian Aboriginal language). |
Waratah-Wynyard Council - Increasing Healthy Eating and Physical Exercise |
Healthy Eating |
NW |
Targeting disadvantaged school students in the area to improve healthy eating and physical activity. Building on a strong base of successful program delivery. |
Warrane Mornington Neighbourhood Centre - Outdoor Kitchen |
Healthy Eating |
South |
Enable opportunities for food education, cooking classes and social connection for those most vulnerable to poor health. |
West Moonah Community House - First Choice Food Co-Op and Gardens |
Healthy Eating |
South |
Expand capacity of existing community gardens and run healthy eating skills building program for parents and their children. Focus on low income families in Moonah and Goodwood. |
Zeehan Neighbourhood Centre - Food REDi - Healthy Me, Healthy You |
Healthy Eating |
NW |
Building community capacity to afford and produce healthy meals. Weekly sessions over 6 months linking to existing community resources. Also targeted focus on building skills of children. |