Step Forward grants

This grant is for incorporated, not-for-profit organisations and local government. You must be undertaking the project in Tasmania. For-profit businesses and consultants, Schools, school associations, Universities and State or Commonwealth Government Departments cannot apply.

Community groups or individuals may also apply if they are sponsored by an incorporated not-for-profit organisation or local government. As an individual or community group, you must meet all other eligibility criteria to be sponsored.

If your application for a Step Forward grant is sponsored, you will need to provide a signed agreement to sponsor letter in your application.

The sponsoring organisation must be an incorporated, not-for-profit entity. If your application is successful, the sponsoring organisation receives the grant funds and accepts responsibility for the grant, including transferring grant funds to the applicant, on behalf of the applicant organisation.

The sponsoring organisation must provide a signed letter agreeing to the sponsorship and provide the name of one person who is authorised to sign a Funding Agreement.

This letter must be provided on the sponsoring organisation’s official letterhead. 

View an example letter:

Date

Chair, Healthy Tasmania Fund Step Forward Review Panel

Department of Health

Public Health Services

GPO Box 125

Hobart TAS 7001

RE: Sponsorship of [name of applicant organisation]’s application for a Healthy Tasmania Fund Step Forward grant.

Dear Sir/Madam,

Our organisation is an incorporated not-for-profit organisation and is prepared to act as the sponsoring body for the [name of applicant organisation] should it be successful in obtaining funding for a Healthy Tasmania Fund Step Forward grant, to undertake [name of project].

We are aware that if [name of applicant organisation]’s application is successful, the grant will be paid to our organisation and we accept the legal and financial obligations involved in accepting the grant.

Yours sincerely

[Name]

[Position in organisation]

You must spend the money within 6 months of receiving the funds.

Yes. You can add a Step Forward Grant to another grant if this will support community health and wellbeing. For example, you may have funding for a health and wellbeing project, but you need some extra money to print resources. You could use the grant for this. Please call us if you’re not sure.

Only if you are applying for a grant for a different purpose. In this case, your organisation could get more than one Step Forward grant from the same round.

Yes. As long as you’re eligible, you can apply for multiple streams. The new Healthy Tasmania Fund is designed to respond to different needs.

No. The Step Forward Grants are simple and easy to apply for. You do not need to have partners involved to get a Step Forward Grant.

No. For-profit businesses and consultants cannot apply for a grant. This includes if they have a not-for-profit sponsor.

You could use the grant for education, training and skill development or printing of posters or brochures. You could also use the funds for equipment, eg Kitchen equipment for community cooking sessions, community garden equipment, sports equipment for the community, or fridge and BBQ to support more social connection.

Sporting clubs are eligible to apply.

However, it cannot be for:

• Something that is considered your club’s core business.
• An idea that would be better suited to the Department of State Growth's Sport and Recreation grants.

It can be for:

• Something that is within the scope of Healthy Tasmania and outside your club’s normal activities.
• A project that aims to reach population groups that would not be otherwise engaged.

The Step Forward Grants will only fund ideas that aim to improve community health and wellbeing. The grant cannot be used for things you have already paid for or have been funded by another source. We will not fund medical equipment, or equipment related to clinical treatment and services.

We will not fund projects that are not within scope of Healthy Tasmania. This includes first aid training. If you’re not sure whether your idea is in scope, give us a call and talk us through your idea.

We will not fund activities that are solely for promotion of a club/program. The funding must support increasing community health and wellbeing in a more direct way.

If your application would be more suited to another funding source (e.g., Sport and Recreation Equipment grants) or it is duplicating another project/program, it will not be funded.

We will aim to let you know the result of your application within a month.

We will work with you to provide the funds as soon as possible, after you send the Exchange of Letters back to us.

There will be a short report form that you will fill out via SmartyGrants once you finish your project. You need to have finished the report 6 months after we get your signed Exchange of Letters.

We ask that as part of your grant, you send us some photos in your report. You must have consent from those that appear in the photos. This is because we may share the photos as part of our Healthy Tasmania communications, eg our Facebook page.

You must acknowledge the Healthy Tasmania Fund as the funding source in any public promotion of your grant. The Healthy Tasmania Fund Style Guide tells you how to do this. We will send successful applicants the Style Guide.