Healthy Canberra Grants
Healthy Canberra Grants provides funding for community organisations to deliver community-based activities that create supportive environments to improve the health of Canberrans, with a focus on preventing chronic disease.
A large proportion of the burden of disease in the ACT community is a result of chronic diseases.
The aim of Healthy Canberra Grants is to fund activities that address the lifestyle risk factors contributing to these diseases, using collective community knowledge, skills, resources, and positive partnerships.
Overview of funding
Healthy Canberra Grants funding priorities are informed by the Healthy Canberra: ACT Preventive Health Plan 2020-2025, which sets the foundations for reducing chronic disease and supporting good health across all stages of life.
The plan is a government-led, collaborative approach to prevention informed by the latest available evidence and the needs of the ACT population.
Current funding opportunities
There are no funding opportunities currently available.
Stay informed about future funding opportunities by emailing hpgrants@act.gov.au or phoning 02 5124 9456 and ask to be added to our distribution list.
Recent funding opportunities
Healthy Canberra Grants: Focus on Supporting Healthy and Active Living for Children and Young People
In early 2023, over $1.5 million was provided across nine community organisations to deliver programs that support healthy eating and active living in children and young people within the ACT.
Find out more about grant recipients and projects at Focus on Healthy and Active Living for Children and Young People - Summaries of approved applications.
Healthy Canberra Grants: Target Grant: Reconnection within Priority Populations
In early 2023, $380 thousand was awarded to 10 successful organisations to increase social connectedness and linkages within priority population groups in the ACT.
Find out more about grant recipients and projects at Target Grant: Reconnection within Priority Populations - Summaries of approved applications.
Other funding sources
The ACT Government offers a range of funding opportunities across many ACT Government directorates. If you have an idea for a program that doesn’t fit into the program, it may be eligible for other funding sources.
You can read more about other ACT Government funding opportunities at ACT Government Grants.
Previously funded projects
- Healthy Canberra Grants: Focus on Supporting Children & Families
- Healthy Canberra Grants: Focus on Reducing Risky Behaviours
- 2020/21–2022/23 Healthy Canberra Grants program descriptions
- Healthy Canberra Grants: Focus on Reducing Smoking-Related Harm
- 2019/20–2021/22 Healthy Canberra Grants program descriptions
- Healthy Canberra Grants: Focus on Reducing Alcohol-Related Harm
- Healthy Canberra Grants: Focus on Preventing Diabetes
- 2018/19–2020/21 Healthy Canberra Grants program descriptions
- Healthy Canberra Grants: Focus on Healthy Ageing - program descriptions
- 2016/17–2018/19 Healthy Canberra Grants – program descriptions
- 2015/16–2017/18 Healthy Canberra Grants – program descriptions
- 2014/15–2016/17 Healthy Canberra Grants – program descriptions
- 2014–2016 Healthy Canberra Grants – program descriptions
More information
For more information about our grant funded programs email hpgrants@act.gov.au.