2025/26 Strategic Initiatives Grant Round
The Tasmanian Community Fund will make decisions about Strategic Initiatives grants through the year.
Funding awarded to date is included in the below table.
| Applicant Name | Project Title | Project Outline | Funding Allocation | Location |
| Youth Opportunities Australia Limited | Personal Leadership Pathways Project | Partnering with the Derwent Valley community to deliver a five-year leadership and wellbeing program for 1200 young people aged 10–18. | $824,709.04 | Derwent Valley |
| Business and Employment Southeast Tasmania Inc | Regional Engagement and Experience Program | This project will engage regional youth and key stakeholders in Southeast Tasmania, through a place-based servicing model, to establish pathways into further education and employment. | $870,795.00 | South |
| Brighton Council | Community Creators: Building capacity for young people. | Community Creators gives young people in the Brighton region voice, agency, a sense of belonging, so they can create solutions and drive change in community | $889,520.00 | Brighton |
| University of New South Wales | Additional Governance for Social Impact Training in Tasmania | To provide an additional Governance for Social Impact training session in Tasmania in 2026 and 2027. | $147,400.00 | Statewide |
| Australian Broadcasting Corporation | Takeover Tasmania | To deliver four Takeover programs across regional and suburban Tasmania between 2026 and 2031, to amplify young people’s voices, build storytelling and communication skills, and strengthen local community engagement through a long-term, multi-year program . | $998,985.00 | Statewide |
| Glenorchy City Council | Glenorchy Youth Hub | To deliver a safe, inclusive after-school Youth Hub in the Glenorchy central business district that connects young people aged 12 to 17 with health, learning, and employment pathways by providing qualified youth engagement staff, youth-led programming, nutritious food, and a supportive environment during the highest-need hours of the day. | $1,000,000.00 | Glenorchy |
| Kids and Teens in the Valley | Youth Connection: Derwent Valley Wellbeing Initiative | To build a sustainable youth wellbeing system in the Derwent Valley by expanding Kids and Teens in the Valley programs, enabling consistent in-school, after-school, weekend, and holiday support that strengthens confidence, connection, emotional wellbeing, and youth voice for children and young people across the region. | $999,970.00 | Derwent Valley |
| Bayview Secondary College | Beyond the Plate | To provide hands-on learning experiences that build practical skills in food preparation, sustainability, and environmental awareness while strengthening pathways to future learning and employment. | $1,042,252.00 | Rokeby |
| Care Beyond Cure | Tender Funerals Tasmania | To establish Tender Funerals Tasmania by establishing a fit-for-purpose building, enabling a community-owned, affordable, and compassionate after-death care service for Tasmanian families. | $300,000.00 | Rokeby |
| NOSS Tasmania | Ed-able Enterprises | To support students living with a disability aged 14 to 19 to complete a Certificate I in Work Readiness while gaining real work experience in local micro-enterprises, strengthening learning engagement, confidence, and school-to-work transitions. | $247,241.00 | Launceston |
| Volunteering Tasmania | EmpowerED | To support young people in Years 10 to 12, particularly those at risk of disengagement, to build confidence, connection and pathways beyond school through structured, curriculum-aligned volunteering embedded within school learning and supported by strengthened community and volunteer organisation partnerships. | $1,203,681.03 | Statewide |
| Reconciliation Tasmania | Reconciliaton Education Grants Program | To support Aboriginal children and young people to experience culturally safe, inclusive learning environments through providing grants and support to schools to co-design and embed reconciliation education with Tasmanian Aboriginal people that strengthens cultural identity, belonging and engagement in learning. | $942,792.00 | Statewide |
| 2026BP03 | West North West Working (Burnie Works Ltd) | To strengthen education, training and employment pathways for young people aged 8 to 19 in Circular Head through a locally embedded bridging role and youth-led co-design process that connects schools, employers, community organisations and families around more coordinated, relevant and sustainable opportunities. | $840,000.00 | Circular Head |
| 2026CECYP00002 | COTA Tasmania | To re-engage young people aged 12 to 19 who are disengaging from education through a structured intergenerational digital mentoring program that builds confidence, communication skills, routine, belonging and pathway awareness while strengthening older Tasmanians’ digital inclusion and social connection. | $1,440,072.00 | Statewide |
| 2026CECYP00042 | George Town Council | To support young people in George Town to build confidence, leadership, learning engagement, employment readiness and community connection through targeted youth development and transition activities. | $300,000.00 | George Town |
| $12,047,417.07 |