Grants programs

Healthy Eating

Statewide

Care to Cook – connect carers in the community by providing informal carers in outlying communities with the skills to produce quick, healthy, budget conscious meals.

Healthy Eating Physical Activity

South

Fit for the Future – developing positive long-term lifestyle choices for at risk youth.

Physical Activity

North

R & R – Ride and Reconnect pilot program aims to increase physical activity levels and health outcomes for Dorset young people through a program that builds knowledge, skills, and community connections.

Reduce Smoking

North

Tobacco Free Communities George Town – community-based program to support people in local communities to become smoke-free by providing voucher-based incentives and cessation support

Healthy Eating Physical Activity  Reduce Smoking

South

Keep Growing, Have Fun! – provide gardening, workshops, picnics and community gatherings to achieve low cost, healthy living, whilst celebrating personal journeys that achieve these goals.

Healthy Eating

Statewide

Tasty Tasmania YouTube Channel – create videos content for healthy seasonal recipes developed by community organisations and Tasmanians to be hosted on a unique Tasmanian only YouTube Channel.

Healthy Eating  Physical Activity

North

Lady Barron Let's Get Physical – promoting physical activity through supervised and supported twice weekly gym sessions.

Healthy Eating Physical Activity Reduce Smoking

North

Healthy George Town – will be a community driven partnership with the aim of improving the health and wellbeing of residents of the George Town Community through the provision of physical activities, healthy eating & nutrition classes, wellbeing classes – yoga.

Physical Activity

North

Ninja Warrior Course – promoting physical activity in our community for children and adults by installing a ninja warrior course for daily use and running.

Healthy Eating Physical Activity Reduce Smoking

South

Live Well, Live Long – program that takes a holistic approach to the wellness of older people, with a focus on maintaining independence, and contributing to significant lifestyle changes.

Physical Activity

North

Healthier for Longer – facilitated, weekly group gentle exercise program for elderly and young migrants with disabilities that improves their physical and mental health outcomes and maintains their connections to community.

Healthy Eating Physical Activity

South

Give It a Go – Dover After School Activities – promote physical activity and healthy eating through a fun and engaging weekly after school program for children and young people in the Dover area.

Healthy Eating  Physical Activity

North West

Growing Healthy Children on King Island –promote healthy eating and as a community ensure all children have access to correct amounts regarding dietary guidelines of fruit and vegetables and enhance children’s knowledge of a healthy diet.

Healthy Eating Physical Activity Reduce Smoking

Statewide

Health Speak – 30 episode audio series for broadcast, podcast and online making preventative-health information and strategies accessible and relevant for people with low literacy/health literacy and/or poor health.

Healthy Eating  Physical Activity

North West

Workshops and building support networks for healthy eating and physical exercise promotion – 10 workshops in Penguin and Wynyard and facilitate the building of supportive networks to promote healthy eating and physical exercise.

Healthy Eating  Physical Activity

North West

Engaging underactive youth in new types of physical exercise and healthy eating in Wynyard – school holiday activities focussing on mountain bike riding, kayaking, and healthy food, run monthly training sessions, and run a Duathlon and Aquathon.

Reduce Smoking

Statewide

‘Have Grit & Quit’ with Masonic Care Tasmania – program will provide more than 5 000 people across Tasmania with the opportunity to help reduce and quit smoking.

Healthy Eating  Physical Activity

North/North West

Taking the Pressure Down – reducing high blood pressure through digital health checks – using innovative digital health checks to guide and encourage Tasmanians to measurably reduce blood pressure and make healthy life choices and changes.

Healthy Eating Physical Activity Reduce Smoking

North

Healthy Shed – R-MACS – an innovative healthy lifestyle project for men living in the northern suburbs of Launceston, designed to activate the new Rocherlea Men’s and Community Shed (R-MACS).

Physical Activity

Statewide

Continued expansion of parkrun in Tasmania – increase rates of physical activity and volunteering in Tasmania through the launch of four new weekly parkrun events.

Healthy Eating Physical Activity

Statewide

Get Active Richmond Fellowship Tasmania –implement program focusing on nutrition, physical activity and wellbeing with a variety of mental health consumers state-wide.

Physical Activity

South

Orielton Lagoon Loop Pathway – construct an additional loop in conjunction with the existing Orielton Lagoon Loop pathway. This will provide a flat unchallenging exercise area for seniors, children, pram walkers, joggers and cyclists.

Physical Activity

North

Resurface Running Track, Athletic Grounds – provide a high standard track for our athletes that is level and safe.

Healthy Eating

Statewide

Meals on Wheels: The next generation – Meals on Wheels will partner with Volunteering Tasmania to attract and retain a younger generation of volunteers to deliver healthy meals to Tasmanians in need.

Physical Activity

South

Focus on connecting isolated communities through physical activity.

Healthy Eating

South

Highly innovative project based at tagari lia Aboriginal Child and Family Centre in Bridgewater using existing demonstration bush food garden and Aboriginal community stories. Focused on children 0-5 and their families.

Physical Activity

South

Walkability audit framework developed at Clarence City Council in partnership with Heart Foundation and community participants. Resource to be shared more broadly and shape council expenditure to improve liveability in areas vulnerable to poor health outcomes

Physical Activity/Healthy Eating

NW

Health and wellbeing project focused on young people at risk of social exclusion.

Tobacco Cessation

North

Innovative approach to supporting quitting, building on evidence for effectiveness in recent trial with pregnant women.

Healthy Eating

Statewide

Social marketing campaign to encourage Tasmanians to eat local and seasonally grown fruit and vegetables. Will closely align with the Healthy Tasmania Challenge #Vegitup and #GetFruity weeks.

Healthy Eating

South

Focus on low income participants and building on the success of previous programs in the region. Developing partnerships with local producers.

Healthy Eating

South

Aims to improve access and supply of healthy affordable food, and build engagement and skills. Focus on people on low incomes and older people, especially those living alone and those in isolated areas.

Physical Activity

South

Innovative community based health promotion program aimed at increasing physical activity during winter. Aligns health promotion with a successful social festival.

Healthy Eating

South

Partnering with local neighbourhood houses to build the existing social enterprise (production farm to local fresh affordable local supply), increase reach and reduce barriers to access.

Physical Activity

North

Will build on the Active4Life Community Gym established in St Marys in 2016. Will promote new community connections and enhance and expand participation in physical activity through the development of a new Active4Life gym facility in St Helens and by providing improved levels of access to the resources available at programs to the St Marys Active4Life facility.

Healthy Eating

South

Building capacity of Waterbridge Food Co-op to increase reach and sustainability.

Physical Activity

South

Focus on regionally isolated and at-risk seniors. Outreach of a successful existing physical activity program.

Tobacco Cessation

North

Focus on staff and volunteers to support their own quit efforts and build capacity to support clients to quit through brief interventions training.

Physical Activity

Statewide

Clinic to introduce activity of mountain biking to women and girls.

Physical Activity/Healthy Eating

North

Focus on people from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds who are recent arrivals. Aimed at improving knowledge of and access to physical activities and healthy eating for these groups.

Physical Activity

South

Focused on people from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds with low English language levels. Aimed at understanding and overcoming barriers to participation in physical activity through pathways to sporting clubs and infrastructure. Focus on swimming due to recognised importance of skills in this area.

Physical Activity

Statewide

Dedicated all-sports club for people with disabilities building on successful program offered in the north to address recognised gap in Southern Tasmania. Working in partnership with a range of sporting clubs.

Physical Activity

North West

Will establish three new parkrun events in Tasmania.   These free, weekly, timed 5km events will be operated by local volunteers in local communities, parkrun.  This project encourages physical activity, volunteering and community connectedness.

Physical Activity/Healthy Eating

North

Designed to activate newly established men and community shed in Ravenwood. Focus on men with a program to support smoking cessation, increased physical activity and healthy eating. Targeting up to 50 men over a 14 week program.

Physical Activity/Healthy Eating

Statewide

Healthy Eating and physical activity information presented in Auslan – first language of people who are Deaf. Will produce a resource tailored to the Deaf community in partnership with content experts through existing partnerships.

Healthy Eating

Statewide

Delivering a culturally appropriate short course on nutrition and physical activity through community connections and stories. The focus will be on the Tasmanian Aboriginal community in 7 locations throughout Tasmania with the aim of further reach through trained champions and new resources in palawa kani (Tasmanian Aboriginal language).

Healthy Eating

NW

Targeting disadvantaged school students in the area to improve healthy eating and physical activity. Building on a strong base of successful program delivery.

Healthy Eating

South

Enable opportunities for food education, cooking classes and social connection for those most vulnerable to poor health.

Healthy Eating

South

Expand capacity of existing community gardens and run healthy eating skills building program for parents and their children. Focus on low income families in Moonah and Goodwood.

Healthy Eating

NW

Building community capacity to afford and produce healthy meals. Weekly sessions over 6 months linking to existing community resources. Also targeted focus on building skills of children.