2023/24 Community Action Grant Round
The Tasmanian Community Fund will make decisions about Community Action grants throughout the year.
Funding awarded to date is included in the below table. This will be updated as funding is awarded.
| Organisation Name | Project Title | Project Outline | Amount Awarded | Location |
| Canoe Tasmania | Paddleball Tasmania - a park on water | To establish a paddleball park at Long Beach, Sandy Bay on the Derwent River to provide physical education and other learning opportunities to Tasmanian students and the broader community. | $47,096.00 | South |
| Door Of Hope Christian Church Inc | Australian Conference On Neurodevelopmental Disorders | To increase community capacity and capability to remove barriers to learning through participation at the 2023 Australian Conference on Neurodevelopmental Disorders. | $10,000.00 | Launceston |
| Edmund Rice Community Services Limited | Changing Futures: Volunteer to Leader | To pilot a Tasmanian program that will create an inspirational and achievable pathway for 16–21-year-olds to become mentors/leaders in and for their community. | $36,000.00 | Statewide |
| Fostering Hope Community Ltd | Community Trauma Awareness Training | To develop a series of videos and accompanying materials to increase community understanding of the impact of childhood trauma and broken attachments. | $20,000.00 | Statewide |
| Franklin Primary School | Resurfacing the Basketball Court | To resurface the current basketball court and kindergarten areas of hard-court play at Franklin Primary School to provide a high-quality surface for students and community members to use both within school hours and outside school hours. | $50,000.00 | South |
| Pathways Tasmania Limited | Transport for Work Experience and Leadership Program | To update transportation that will support a new work-skills and leadership building initiative. | $50,000.00 | South |
| Royal Flying Doctor Service Tasmania Inc. | Royal Flying Doctor Service Tasmania Education Simulator | To purchase a second-hand aeromedical education simulator to be used in Tasmanian schools to assist in improving health outcomes of Tasmanians by using education as a preventative tool in rural and regional Tasmania. | $50,000.00 | Statewide |
| St Michaels Association | Ipads - Day Programs | To purchase 10 new ipads modified to allow St Michael’s the current technology program to be transitioned from computers to Ipads and support people with a disability to learn new skills via technology. | $10,000.00 | North |
| Tasmania University Union | Food education program for University of Tasmania students | To provide culturally appropriate and nutritious food relief to University of Tasmania students at the Sandy Bay Campus. | $50,000.00 | South |
| Tasmanian Junior Beekeeper | TJB Bee Hub Upgrade | To provide equipment and educational material for the Junior Beekeeper facility to enhance the learning experience for children and young people. | $30,000.00 | Clarence |
| Terrapin Puppet Theatre | Forever Young: Intergenerational Puppetry Workshop | To deliver a 4-6 week Intergenerational Puppetry Workshops to both children and elderly people with a focus on The Tasmanian Aboriginal Centre and Aged care Facilities. | $50,000.00 | South |
| The Smith Family | The Smith Family: Huon Learning for Life Community Feasibility Study | To scope the interest and viability of establishing the Smith Family’s Learning for Life programme in the Huon Valley | $15,000.00 | Huon Valley |
| Youth, Family and Community Connections Inc. | Folding Wall Installation at Devonport Junction Hub | To install a folding wall at the YFCC building in Devonport to maximise the space, ensure that the multiple user groups have privacy simultaneously and to support increased use by the community. | $11,875.00 | Devonport |
| $429,971.00 |