VicHealth Partnership Grants

This is one of the new VicHealth Partnership Grants, which present new funding opportunities for a diverse range of organisations to propel community wellbeing and health promotion initiatives into unchartered territory with a multi-million dollar funding pool.

Explore which VicHealth Partnership Grants you could apply for here.

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About this grant

Key points:

• Ideas Partnership Grants are open to organisations with an Australian Business Number (ABN)that can deliver projects in Victoria
• We have an explicit focus on health promotion and primary prevention. Big or small, all proposals that clearly align with VicHealth priorities and focus areas are welcome.
• Funding is for new activity. There is no set timeframe for your idea to be implemented, but June 2020 is the earliest possible start date.
• Partnerships are essential. Think laterally about who you can work with to deliver practical, easy-to-implement ideas that will benefit the Victorian community.
• VicHealth cannot provide feedback or advice on your application.

Note: if your organisation has been affected by recent bushfires and you require assistance to complete your application, please get in touch with the team at [email protected].

More information:

This funding opportunity seeks ideas that will improve the health and wellbeing of Victorians but don’t fit within the other VicHealth Partnership Grant opportunities advertised in November 2019.

Ideas must align with the priority areas outlined in the VicHealth’s Action Agenda for Health Promotion 2019 – 23 including:

• encouraging regular physical activity
  • overcoming judgement experienced by women
  • social sport, active recreation and play
  • walking and active travel
• preventing tobacco use
  • preventing young people from smoking
  • supporting smokers to quit
  • reducing appeal of tobacco products
• improving mental wellbeing
  • positive social connections among young people
  • gender equality
• promoting healthy eating
  • food environments (including sports settings)
  • fruit and vegetable consumption
  • food cultures
  • childhood obesity prevention
• preventing harm from alcohol products
  • changing risky drinking cultures
  • supporting local communities to reduce harm
  • providing evidence-based advice to strengthen policy
• reducing health inequities
  • putting equity at the heart of our work
  • supporting action by the health promotion sector
  • influencing determinants through partnerships

We will consider all ideas, prioritising those that:

• impact health and wellbeing across multiple priorities (e.g. physical activity and mental wellbeing)
• put health equity at the heart of the idea, ensuring the accessibility and inclusion of vulnerable groups; and are practical and easy to implement
• involve partnerships with other organisations to work towards shared health and wellbeing outcomes; are impactful and offer value for money.

We encourage organisations to think laterally about forging new partnerships and collaborative ideas to improve the health and wellbeing of the Victorian community.

We are looking for ideas that we have not previously funded and have not been submitted in previous VicHealth grant rounds. Please be aware that applications for funding that have already been submitted previously, or aim to continue or replicate a project that VicHealth has already funded, are unlikely to be successful.

NOTE: Whilst research institutions are eligible to apply, we are not looking to fund research under this funding stream. Instead, we strongly recommend submitting expressions of interest for research through the Research Partnership Grant stream.

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What's on offer?

There is no set upper or lower limits on the funding that is available for the Ideas Partnership Grants, nor a set timeframe, however value for money will be a key consideration when we consider ideas.

Applicants should request a funding amount appropriate to the scale of the idea and that will enable the idea to be delivered in the timeframe you specify.

VicHealth will identify the most promising ideas and may work with applicants to further develop the idea which may include refining the suggested budget or scope of your project.

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Who can apply?

Any organisation passionate about achieving better health and wellbeing outcomes in Victoria is encouraged to apply. We encourage you to think big and laterally about forging new partnerships to really hit the mark with communities and help improve health and wellbeing in Victoria.

VicHealth encourages diverse organisations to apply, including those who work with disability communities, LGBTIQ communities, culturally and linguistically diverse communities and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities.

Organisations that can apply include but are not limited to:

• Local councils
• Community organisations
• Sporting organisations
• Health services and community health organisations
• Tertiary education institutions
• Organisations from the arts, creative, digital or youth sector
• Rural and remote organisations
• Organisations working with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities
• Organisations working with disability communities, LGBTIQ communities, culturally and linguistically diverse communities
• NGOs, peak bodies, charities
• Other relevant industries/sectors.

Who can’t apply?

• Members of the general public are not eligible to apply alone and must instead apply through an organisation
• Organisations that accept any form of sponsorship, support or research funding from sources connected to the tobacco industry
• Organisations whose business or activities do not align with VicHealth’s values of promoting good health and wellbeing for all Victorians.

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What we will fund

We will fund ideas that align with VicHealth’s priority areas and have the strongest potential to improve health and wellbeing of the Victorian community.

We will not fund:

• applications to generate new research
• ideas that focus on early intervention, treatment, rehabilitation or prevention of specific diseases
• laboratory-based science or health service delivery, unless there is a strong rationale for its relevance to health promotion
• a continuation or replication of a project we’ve already funded or we’ve received an application for previously

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Key dates

Activity	Date
Applications open	19 November 2019
Briefings via webinar	Wednesday 27 November, 12.30pm – 1.00pm
Applications close	12pm, 24 February 2020
Partnership Grant recipients notified	On or before 30 April 2020

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Important documents

Click here to download the VicHealth Partnership Grants Funding Guidelines

Click here to download the information fact sheet for this funding round

Watch a recording the webinar here (you can also download the slide deck with transcript and questions)

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