2025/26 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.
| Applicant Name | Project Title | Project Outline | Funding Allocation | Location |
| Campania District School Association | Growing Minds: A Sustainable Outdoor Learning Space for Campania | A community-led program teaching sustainability, enterprise, and life skills, supporting students to gain VET agricultural and horticultural certificates and pathways for meaningful local careers. | $45,500.00 | Campania |
| Devil Robotics Inc | Devil Robotics Future Makers Hub | To inspire and empower Tasmanian young people and educators with hands-on STEM, fabrication, and engineering skills through a dedicated robotics hub. | $50,000.00 | Mt Nelson |
| Good360 Australia Ltd | The Confidence Project: Hygiene for Learning and Life | Providing hygiene kits to Tasmanian students aged 8–19 to improve wellbeing, boost school attendance and remove practical barriers to learning and participation. | $50,000.00 | Statewide |
| Junction Arts | WONDERGROUND | This is a pilot project spanning 2025-2026 initiating an Artist In-Residence project that serves young people, connecting them to ongoing learning, artistic process and community. | $44,500.00 | Launceston |
| Mawson’s Hut Foundation | Mobile Antarctic Classroom Islands Tour Series | Conducting a series of tours of Tasmania’s islands to bring our education program to isolated and disadvantaged communities and equip teachers for ongoing impact. | $36,397.00 | Statewide |
| Persian Culture Society | Future Leaders: Empowering Farsi-Speaking Youth for Learning and Leadership | This project aims to support the personal development, educational engagement, and leadership skills of Farsi-speaking young people aged 8–19 from Iranian and Afghan backgrounds. | $50,000.00 | Hobart |
| Social Ventures Australia Ltd | Supervision for Success: Helping Young Tasmanians Succeed in Work | An academic led needs analysis identifying training requirements for frontline managers to better support young employees, improving youth retention and workplace success in Tasmania | $47,863.00 | Statewide |
| Flinders Island District High School Association | Regulation and Road Safety Awareness Project | A dedicated regulation space and bike/scooter path for Flinders and Cape Barren Island youth (8–19), promoting wellbeing, engagement, and lifelong safety skills. | $50,000.00 | Flinders Island |
| Campania District School | Green minds, growing futures | A joint community project teaching sustainability, food security, enterprise and life skills for future learning and employment in and around the district. | $46,000.00 | Campania |
| Care to Serve Ltd | Young Carer Ready | Empowering young carers with life and pre-employment skills, peer connection, and support to build independence and sustain their caring role | $49,770.00 | Statewide |
| Tasmanian Leaders Inc. | I-LEAD Equality | A new program to strengthen the leadership capacity of existing and emerging LGBTIQA+ leaders across Tasmania, increasing local community capacity, strengthening networks and building resilience. | $49,800.00 | Statewide |
| Solve-TAD Limited | Inclusive Cycling at Southern Support School | To provide inclusive biking experiences that support 25 mostly non-verbal students at Southern Support School to build interaction, communication skills, and confidence over a 12-month cycling program. | $28,740.00 | South |
| GreenSTEM Education Ltd | The Maker Lab | To provide a community-run STEM Maker Lab in Burnie that offers access, tools, and mentoring to remove barriers, build practical skills, and create leadership pathways for 8 to 19 year olds. | $50,000.00 | Burnie |
| Sustainable Living Tasmania Inc | Tasmanian Youth Climate Leaders Program (TCYLP) | To empower young Tasmanians aged 10 to 19 to build the skills and confidence to deliver local action projects that strengthen their resilience and wellbeing in responding to climate change. | $50,000.00 | Statewide |
| DRILL Performance Company Inc | Horizon Project: Developing Confidence, Relationships and Creativity During School Transitions | To build young people’s social skills, ingenuity, problem solving, and confidence through a collaborative creative process that supports positive transitions into high school. | $49,715.00 | South |
| Kingston High School (DECYP) | HUB Garden Expansion | To expand the school garden with accessible beds and a beehive, increasing year-round hands-on learning opportunities for HUB students and those supported through the Multi-Tiered System of Supports. | $50,000.00 | Kingston |
| Tasmanian Arboretum Inc. | WILD MINDS – Nature Discovery (a two-year pilot program) | To pilot a nature-based discovery program at the Tasmanian Arboretum that provides creative, engaging, and well-designed educational experiences for young people from across Tasmania. | $50,000.00 | Eugenana |
| Nepali Society of Northern Tasmania | Digital literacy and numeracy for connected and stronger communities | To combine numeracy tutoring, digital literacy, and culturally tailored resources to strengthen academic success, build essential digital skills, and support culturally connected communities for young people. | $46,500.00 | North |
| Engender Equality | Young Advocates for Change | To deliver a youth-focused statewide adaptation of Engender Equality’s Advocates for Change program, empowering young Tasmanians through lived experience advocacy training to help prevent gender-based violence. | $49,263.30 | Statewide |
| Northern Midlands Council | Northern Midlands Youth Leadership and Learning Future | To empower young people aged 8 to 19 through leadership workshops, school engagement, and a community event that strengthens learning and employment pathways. | $24,700.00 | Northern Midlands |
| Gateway Life Solutions | FreshStart for University Students Suffering Food Insecurity | To expand access to nutritious food and practical learning opportunities by installing commercial food storage and kitchen equipment that supports program delivery for students. | $50,000.00 | Statewide |
| Living Boat Trust Inc | Enhancing primary school education through hands-on learning | To support students who struggle in traditional classrooms through a hands-on manual arts project that builds confidence, planning skills, and engagement in learning. | $23,500.00 | Huon Valley |
| Huonville High School Association | Breaking Barriers for Better Futures | To support disadvantaged young people through coordinated interagency support that removes barriers to participation and strengthens education, work readiness, and life outcomes. | $30,050.00 | Huon Valley |
| Cinnamon Network | Community led approach to addressing loneliness in Launceston | To pilot social prescribing in Launceston by strengthening partnerships that connect people experiencing loneliness with community support to build connection and belonging. | $50,000.00 | Launceston |
| Narryna Heritage Museum | Harbour Histories | To improve access for Tasmanian students to place-based maritime heritage learning through curriculum-linked digital resources, onsite education activities and walking tours that connect Hobart’s harbour history with broader trade, migration and cultural stories. | $25,000.00 | Hobart |
| Stringalong Inc | Consolidation and Expansion: Strings Education (8-19 year) Burnie Community | To increase access for young people in the Burnie area to low-cost strings education through teacher development, student camp support, new and combined school programs, and replacement instruments that support ongoing participation in music learning. | $26,028.00 | North West |
| Dover District School Association Committee | The Dover DS Kitchen and Garden Renewal Project | To support students in Dover and the Far South to stay engaged in learning through renewed kitchen and garden facilities that enable safer school food programs, practical cooking and barista learning, and community food support. | $50,000.00 | Huon Valley |
| Multicultural Council of Tasmania | Diverse Leadership Program | To build leadership capacity for Tasmanians from migrant and refugee backgrounds through training, mentoring, networking and evaluation that strengthen participation in workplaces, community organisations and civic leadership. | $50,000.00 | Statewide |
| Springfield Gardens Community STEM Club Inc | STEM Engagement Through Building and Racing Electric Cars | To increase STEM engagement for young people in the Springfield Gardens community through hands-on electric car building, mentoring and racing that builds confidence, practical skills and interest in future STEM pathways. | $41,227.00 | Glenorchy |
| Parkinson’s Tasmania Inc | Connected Communities: Community Led Support Network Tasmania | To strengthen local support for Tasmanians affected by Parkinson’s through a co-designed, community-led network that builds peer leadership, local capability and sustainable connections across the state. | $50,000.00 | Statewide |
| The Derwent Catchment Project Inc | Connecting to Land and Sea Pathways | To support Aboriginal young people to build confidence, skills and employment pathways through culturally safe land management training, working on Country, mentoring and practical learning. | $50,000.00 | South |
| Terrapin Puppet Theatre | The Bridge - Building belonging for migrant and refugee students | To strengthen belonging and learning engagement for migrant and refugee young people through co-designed creative workshops that address racism, bullying and social isolation in school settings. | $40,000.00 | Glenorchy |
| $1,404,553.30 |