JumpStart! funded programs

VicHealth’s JumpStart! is teaming up with these 123 community organisations to create a healthier future for young people.

 

Recipients are listed alphabetically by location. Click an organisation's name to be taken to their webpage (where applicable).

 

 

Organisation	Program	Location
Albert Park Yacht Club Inc	Learn to sail with your mum, grandma or aunty	Albert Park
Port Melbourne Colts Junior Football Club Inc	Come and Try day to establish girls football academy	Albert Park
Fresh Theatre for Social Change	Unsorted – Theatre for young people celebrating identity and belonging	Albert Park
Badminton Victoria Inc.	Badminton Abilities Junior	Albert Park
Australian Sailing	Next Gen Sailing	Albert Park
Newport Calisthenics Club Incorporated	Newport Calisthenics Tots	Altona
United African Farm INC	The Roots Project: (People, Culture and food)	Bass
YMCA Victoria	the Y & Gippsport bring Fitness & Fun to Fridays	Bass
Irabina Autism Services	We Eat Together: A food club	Bayswater
Ocean Mind Ltd	Surf Therapy for Youth Mental health	Bellarine
Bellarine Community Health LTD	Live Well Bellarine – Active OUR WAY!	Bellarine
Neighbourhood Collective Australia	The Neighbourhood Kids Club	Bendigo East
Orienteering Victoria	Let’s Go Orienteering – Regional Engagement Initiative	Bendigo West
Regional Victorians of Colour	Moving Feast Project	Bendigo West
Bendigo Foodshare	Food initiatives that breakdown barriers & connect to culture	Bendigo West
Drummond Street Service	Project Reconnect	Bendigo West
Golden Square Pool Inc.	Multicultural swimming and water safety lessons for children at Golden Square Po	Bendigo West
Bentleigh Cricket Club	All Abilities Cricket Program	Bentleigh
The Brighton Recreational Centre Limited	All-Inclusive, All-Abilities Pottery Classes for Children and Young Adults	Brighton
Minties Netball Club	Coach Development Training, Equipment Shed & equipment renewal	Brighton
Colour Them Safe	Accessible and inclusive art for wellbeing studio	Brunswick
Brunswick Lacrosse Club Inc. Ass.	Brunswick Lacrosse Mini Mavericks Primary School Program (Mini Mavs Schools)	Brunswick
Ballarat Triathlon Club	Community engagement with under 25's	Buninyong
Meredith Community Centre	Meredith's Mini Masterchefs	Buninyong
The Break	Paddling Pals	Caulfield
Inner Eastern Local Learning Employment Network	Cooking to Connect	Caulfield
St Kilda Police and Citizens Youth Club	Youth Boxing	Caulfield
Food For Change Foundation Ltd	Food Security and Vibrant Communities: Schools’ Engagement Program	Clarinda
Cheltenham Community Centre Inc	Social connections for vulnerable children through cultural food, arts and play.	Clarinda
City in the Community	Eat well. Play well Program.	Cranbourne
Australian Martial Arts Foundation Inc	Kiai Spirit - Martial Arts Programs for Kidz	Croydon
White Star Dandenong Soccer Club	Club Equipment Renewal and Upgrade Project	Dandenong
Lyndale United FC	Lyndale 5-a-side Summer Football Cup	Dandenong
Greater Dandenong City Council	Dandenong New Art – Art Decks	Dandenong
Yarra Valley ECOSS	A taste of culture	Eildon
Greenhills Neighbourhood House	Growing Greenhills - engaging young people at Greenhills Neighbourhood House	Eltham
Boots For All Inc	Let's Rebound Together - By Dissolving Barriers To Sport & Physical Activity	Eltham
Diamond Valley Basketball Association	Youth in Basketball Program	Eltham
Yellow Ladybugs Ltd	Craft with Your Crew: YellowCraft School Term Program	Essendon
Pigeons Projects Limited	Story-making programs to foster connection and creativity in young people	Footscray
L2R Next Gen Fund	L2R's Annual Free Hip Hop Dance Program	Footscray
Frankston City Council	Bridging food culture	Frankston
Strong Women Documentary	Parent and Daughter Multi Sport Come & Try events	Frankston
Buninyong Football Club Inc	Extending the Club’s indigenous inclusion and recognition program.	Geelong
Geelong Gallery	Geelong Gallery Mural Project: connecting young people through the visual arts	Geelong
Geelong Regional Football (Soccer) Committee (GRFC) (FV Geelong)	Reactivating, growing and adding thousands of physical, active opportunities	Geelong
Yoowinna Wurnalung Aboriginal Healing Service	Young Yoowinna Wurnalung (our safe place in Gunaikurnai language)	Gippsland East
Metung Yacht Club	All Abilities Sailing boats for our club	Gippsland East
The Hive Community Collective Inc	Healthy Living Project	Gippsland South
Kew Rovers Football Club	Fund set up costs for U16 Girls team to maximise recruitment of junior girls	Kew
Afri-Aus Care	UBUNTU in Cooking: Cultural Learnings through Food (“the Project”)	Keysborough
Riding for the Disabled Association (RDA) Melton	Necessary equipment and a horse to run our Riding for Disabled Program	Kororoit
Malayalee Sports & Cultural Association	Shuttle time Program	Kororoit
Badminton Geelong	Enable young Geelong immigrants to participate in badminton	Lara
Wathaurong Aboriginal Cooperative Ltd	Wathaurong Community Engagement: Youth & Culture Project	Lara
Leisure Networks	Youth Leading Culture	Lara
DIVERSITAT- Geelong Ethnic Communities Council	Diversitat Futsal & Netball Academy [DFNA]	Lara
West Wimmera Shire Council	Creative and Alive in West Wimmera	Lowan
Flying Fox Services Limited	x10 Shortz weekends away for children with disability with volunteer Buddies	Macedon
Blind Sports & Recreation Victoria	Reigniting a vision for inclusion of young people through recreation and arts.	Malvern
RMIT University	The Children’s Sensorium – Exhibition for Children’s Resilience and Wellbeing	Melbourne
Dynamo Victoria FC	Kicknic	Melbourne
Kensington Neighbourhood House	Green Time	Melbourne
Ubuntu Project	African Australian Youth Engagement Project	Melbourne
Centre for Projection Art Inc.	Light the way – Projection art and play to improve cancer treatment outcomes	Melbourne
The Venny Inc	Playing to Recover	Melbourne
North Carlton Railway Neighbourhood House	The Passion Project	Melbourne
Disability Sports Australia	Activate Inclusion Sports Days	Melbourne
AusCycling Ltd	Mini Wheelers: Building life skills for the next generation of bike riders	Melbourne
United Through Football Inc.	Let's active and connected	Melbourne
Royal Children’s Hospital Mental Health - Festival for Healthy Living	Deadly Dreamin’ – an Aboriginal-led, arts-based wellbeing and healing program.	Melton
Birchip Playgroup	Ready, Set & Move in the Mallee	Mildura
Zoe Support Australia	Engaging Young Mums & Bubs	Mildura
Mallee Sports Assembly	After school sports, active recreation and cooking in the East End Community.	Mildura
City of Monash	Monash Youth Community Flavours	Mount Waverley
The City of Monash - Active Monash	Active Communities Active Youth	Mount Waverley
Northern District Community Health	Let’s Move!	Murray Plains
Casey Council	City of Casey, Feast of Nations - Multicultural Cuisine Program	Narre Warren North
Al Itqan Academy	Al Itqan's Mindfulness Youth Retreat.	Narre Warren North
Dreamhouse Theatre Company inc.	Dreamhouse TC weekly theatre skills workshops and annual theatre production.	Nepean
Alfred Nuttall Memorial Kindergarten	Seeding Identity	Northcote
Darebin Women's Sports Club	Diversity and Inclusion - Program Manager	Northcote
Waverley Wanderers Soccer Club	Waverley Wanderers Living Healthy Greek style	Oakleigh
Waverley Gymnastics Centre Inc	Opening the doors for the next generation of young gymnasts with disability	Oakleigh
Wangaratta Community Garden Inc.	Learning life skills to grow edible food in a community garden plot.	Ovens Valley
Thamarrurr Youth Indigenous Corporation	Sharing food and culture for a Bright and healthy future.	Ovens Valley
Human Rights Arts and Film Festival Inc	Emerging Creatives Festival	Ovens Valley
Sussex Neighbourhood House Inc.	Creating Social & Rec Activities for Children and Young People with Disabilities	Pascoe Vale
Terang Mortlake Football Netball Club	Facilities & equipment for the Terang Mortlake WVFFL Under 18 Female footy team	Polwarth
St Martins Youth Arts Centre	Gene Tree: Listen. Now. Again	Prahran
Gymnastics Victoria Inc.	Gymnastics Victoria Social Parkour Project	Prahran
Body Confident Collective	Body Confident Physical Activity: Girls Empowerment Project	Prahran
Keon Park Soccer Club	Sport for everyone	Preston
La Trobe University Hockey Club	Hockey starter kits for young people	Preston
Sustain: The Australian Food Network	Connections through sharing culture: youth world food gardens and kitchens	Preston
Your Community Health	Rainbow Gym - an inclusive gym program for trans & gender diverse young people	Preston
Collingwood Toy Library	Establishing a toy collection for new Fitzroy Toy Library	Richmond
North Richmond Community Health Limited	NRCH Food & Culture Festival	Richmond
Cultivating Community	Let's Keep Cooking: Kids Clubs Yarra	Richmond
Young Women's Music Incorporated	The YoWo Music Mentoring Program	Richmond
Mzuri Dance Artistree Fund Inc.	Culture Club - traditional cooking, cultural connection, youth led	Richmond
Collingwood Basketball Association	Youth Development Program - Integrating migrant youth into our community	Richmond
Whitehorse Chevaliers Fencing Club Inc	Fencing Fitness & Fun for Young Adults in Outer Eastern Melbourne	Ringwood
Central Ringwood Community Centre	Social Sports for Migrants	Ringwood
Eastern Domestic Violence Service Inc.	Ways to Play – Active play-based workshops for families	Ringwood
Ararat Little Athletics Centre 51	Little Athletics in Ararat: Increasing sporting access and impact for youth	Ripon
Numurkah Toy Library Inc	Numurkah Toy Library Active Play and Physical Development Project	Shepparton
Wanyara Pty. Ltd	Growing Cultural Connections: Indigenous Food and Healthy Connections.	Shepparton
Barwon Soccer Club	Reactivate female participation by implementing an enhanced holistic program	South Barwon
Moyne Shire Council	Moyne Virtual Gallery (MVG) Emerging Curators Development Program	South-West Coast
South West Sport Inc	Corangamite youth getting active and connected in nature	South-West Coast
Sunbury Aboriginal Corporation	Return to Culture	Sunbury
Waves of Wellness Foundation Ltd	Empowering Young People’s Wellbeing through Surf Therapy	Sunbury
Whittlesea Community Connections	Kids Get Active	Thomastown
Food Is Free Inc.	Food Is Free Inc. Little Sprouts kids gardening program	Wendouree
Art Gallery of Ballarat	After School Active Artists	Wendouree
Wyndham Little Buddies Toy Library	Toys for Wyndham Little Buddies Toy Library	Werribee
All The Queens Men Inc.	Wyndham’s Homecoming: a concert takeover created by youth from Melbourne’s West.	Werribee
Indoor Sports Victoria Inc	Back in the game - getting young women back into Indoor Sports	Werribee
Newport Calisthenics Club	Future Coaches Scholarship Program	Williamstown
Williamstown Lacrosse Club Inc	To promote reengagement with and participation in a team based sport	Williamstown
Western Edge Youth Arts	‘Out West’ Community Youth Theatre (CYT) Program	Williamstown
Craigieburn Basketball Association Inc	Bouncing into Basketball in Mickleham & 3064	Yuroke