Deadline: 3 March 2025
The Heart Foundation has launched its Active Australia Innovation Challenge to offer multiple grants, innovate projects that get more people moving in schools, universities or local community groups.
They are encouraging community groups, councils, schools (preschools, primary and secondary), tertiary institutions (universities, TAFEs, colleges), and other organisations to come up with an innovative idea to encourage physical activity in a chosen group or community.
Funding Information
- Grants up to $30,000 for innovative ideas that get people moving.
Eligible Projects
- This grant is intended to provide funding to kick-start a project or to provide seed funding in support of a larger project. Should the project be for the latter, supporting documentation will need to be provided to confirm funding has already been sought to fulfil the project implementation. The Heart Foundation strongly encourages innovative projects that support people:
- Identifying as Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander
- With culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds
- Living with a disability
- Living in rural and remote regions
Ineligible Projects
- Projects that have been implemented or completed prior to the application being submitted.
- Projects that are deemed to be ‘business as usual’ for the organisation applying.
- Projects that don’t have the primary objective of ‘increasing physical activity’ for the chosen group or community.
- Projects that cannot be completed within 12 months of receiving the grant.
- Projects that are not low cost. Projects that charge a small fee will be eligible if they are:
- Accessible for the intended group or community; and
- Can demonstrate that a fee is required for the sustainability of the project.
- Projects that are outside of Australia.
- Projects seen to primarily benefit an applicant or business, for example increasing profits, increasing revenue sources, and/or covering existing employee salary costs for the duration of the funded project.
- Where the applicant is unable to enter into a Funding Agreement with the Heart Foundation. Community members/individuals will need to either hold a current Australian Business Number (ABN) or collaborate with an eligible entity (one that holds a current ABN) to enable a funding agreement to be executed. In a ‘collaboration scenario,’ the organisation holding the ABN must submit the application. They will be responsible for receiving and managing the grant and be accountable for the delivery of the project.
Eligibility Criteria
- Community groups e.g. residents’ groups, parents’ groups, environmental groups, sporting organisations, Scouts and Girl Guides, community centres, councils, schools (preschools, primary and secondary), tertiary institutions (universities, TAFEs and colleges), and other organisations.
- Community members/individuals.
- Previous winners of the Active Australia Innovation Challenge will need to demonstrate an enhancement or expansion of the previously awarded project, or a new innovative idea, to be eligible to enter in 2025.
- Those with a previously submitted project who were not awarded a grant, who have updated or enhanced their original idea.
What to consider before applying
- Your target audience
- Why your project idea is innovative
- What you hope to achieve with this project
- What outcomes will you measure and how do you plan on measuring these
- An Australian Business Number (ABN)
- Budget breakdown and future goals
For more information, visit Heart Foundation.
