2024/25 Community Action
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 | Awarded | Location |
| Abels Run Inc | Abels Run - Pilot Year | Abels Run aims to re-engage Tasmanian youth with their natural environment by providing education and support, collaborating primarily with local companies for Tasmania's benefit | $19,144.00 | Statewide |
| Bellerive Primary School | Welcome Garden a kitchen garden for learning engagement and wellbeing | A sustainable outdoor learning space that enhances food literacy, sustainability, and student wellbeing by providing hands-on educational experiences in an onsite kitchen garden. | $50,000.00 | Clarence |
| BighART | First Foods | "First Foods" in NW Tasmania empowers youth aged 13-18 with valuable job skills in food service and nutrition, while providing local support for young mothers. | $45,000.00 | North West Tasmania |
| Calvin Christian School | Art Therapy | A weekly art therapy program for neurodivergent children from trauma and domestic violence backgrounds, providing a creative outlet to help them process emotions and thoughts without using words. | $35,000.00 | Channel |
| Christian Schools Tasmania (Channel Christian School) | Creative Engagement Group | A creative program designed for primary school students, aimed at building confident, resilient learners. Focused around the Arts to engage and advance their school participation. | $25,000.00 | Channel |
| Department of Education Children and Young People (Dodges Ferry Primary School Association) | Grow & Learn program | Provide hands-on sustainable living education at Okines Community Garden with Grade 3-5 students from Dodges Ferry Primary School and explore expanding to other communities. | $23,670.00 | Dodges Ferry |
| EACH Ltd | Make Your Mark | Make Your Mark fosters growth, not just for players but for the broader football community. Building capacity and capability through sport creates lasting positive change. | $49,917.00 | North |
| East Tamar Primary School | Outdoor Container Kitchen: Engaging Students through Garden and Cooking Programs | To create an outdoor kitchen at East Tamar Primary School, enhancing our kitchen garden program to provide engaging, hands-on food education for all students | $50,000.00 | Launceston |
| HealthLit4Everyone Ltd | Reaching further into communities: launching the HealthLit4Kids Facilitator Training program | Launch of HealthLit4Kids online training package: education and templates to support School Nurses to develop essential health literacy knowledge and skills in their local schools. | $49,444.00 | Statewide |
| Huon Valley Police & Community Youth Club Inc | Follow the Leader | Follow the Leader is a program designed to support the building of leadership capacity & capability of children and young people in the Huon Valley | $44,026.00 | Huonville |
| Huonville Primary School (DECYP) | Swings Project | The 'Swings Project' will build 7 new swings in the playground at Huonville Primary School, providing benefits to the students and children in the community. | $38,565.00 | Channel |
| Jordan River Learning Federation Senior School | Kurious Beats | To enhance student engagement and attendance within the Jordan River learning community, by amplifying student voice and creativity, fostering a deeper connection and active participation among students through the delivery of the Kurious Beats program with a focus on hip-hop, music, and performing arts. | $23,750.00 | Brighton |
| Kingborough Council | Get Ready For Work | A work ready course for 15 - 19 year olds to equip them with the skills and qualifications to find work in the hospitality industry. | $37,280.00 | Kingborough |
| Kuno Foundation | Burny Kids and Nature Stories Page | A community managed webpage by and for kids who live in or visit Bruny Island, of their activities, stories of and connection with nature | $39,580.00 | Bruny Island |
| Regenerative Agriculture Network Tasmania Inc | Connecting Students with Regenerative Agriculture | Provide high school, college and tertiary students with the well presented theory and hands-on experience of regenerative farming. Connecting students with farmers, skills and landscapes. | $49,884.50 | Statewide |
| Slipstream Circus Inc | Circus workshops for local Ulverstone school students | Local school students who are disengaged with learning will be offered Slipstream Circus workshops specifically targeted at re-connecting them with their learning | $47,031.30 | Ulverstone |
| Spreyton Primary School | SPS Breakfast Club Program | Staff and volunteers will provide breakfast (available to all students), five days a week. This will also involve providing fresh fruit for morning fruit breaks | $50,000.00 | Spreyton |
| Tasmanian Bike Collective Inc. | Enhanced Care Toolkit - Upskilling Learning by Doing Practitioners | A training package to increase the capability and impact for organisations and practitioners using Learning by Doing education strategies for working with disengaged young people. | $34,998.00 | Hobart/Risdon Vale |
| Department of Education Children and Young People (Trevallyn Primary School) | Bush Regulation Run | A marked walking/running regulation track (approx. 200m) around the perimeter of our bush playground with positioned educational posts supporting the Zones of Regulation | $20,000.00 | Launceston |
| The Trustee for Tamar Community Peace Trust | Peace in Schools Program | The goal of the Peace in Schools Program is to inspire young people to find their way to strive for peace both individually and collectively. | $5,170.00 | Launceston |
| Variety the Children's Charity Tent 78 Tasmania Inc | Variety School Breakfast Program | Variety School Breakfast Club funding aims to enable schools to make breakfast available to every student, every school day. Currently run in 26 Tasmanian schools | $50,000.00 | Statewide |
| Westbury Primary School Association | Risk and Resilience: Growing through play | Provide an additional play-space for upper primary students to participate in safe risk taking challenges, improve motor skills, cross-body coordination, spatial awareness and social-emotional health | $50,000.00 | Westbury |
| $837,459.80 |