2025 GenQ Accelerator Grants

PLEASE READ THE 2025 GenQ Health and Wellbeing Community Accelerator Grant Guidelines (the Guidelines) BEFORE COMPLETING THIS APPLICATION FORM.

• Unless specifically stated, all questions must be completed. Compulsory questions are marked with a red asterisk.
• Complete each section as fully as possible and allow yourself time to review the application before the closing date.
• Save your application regularly to avoid losing changes.
• Once you are ready to submit, scroll down and select 'Submit' at the bottom of the last page to send the application to Health and Wellbeing Queensland (HWQld). You will receive an automated confirmation email to confirm your submission, and provide your Application Number and a PDF copy of your application. You can go back to SmartyGrants at any time to view your submitted application(s) by going to 'My submissions'.

APPLICATIONS CANNOT BE:

• ALTERED ONCE SUBMITTED
• SUBMITTED AFTER THE GRANT ROUND CLOSES.

For queries about the Guidelines or questions in the application, please contact the HWQld Grants Team via email grants@hw.qld.gov.au quoting the application number below: 

Health and Wellbeing Queensland (HWQld) is Queensland’s dedicated Prevention Agency committed to creating a healthier and fairer future for Queensland. HWQld’s 2023-2027 Strategic Plan aims to drive change to address the preventable burden of disease, with a focus to reduce the impacts of chronic disease especially for those who are experiencing poor health due to circumstances beyond their control. We do that by working with government, communities and other sectors to change the environments people live in to help create a healthier and fairer Queensland.

Generation Queensland (GenQ) is HWQld’s vision that sees children born today experiencing better health outcomes than the generations of Queenslanders before them. GenQ is for every child.

In Queensland, currently 2 in 3 adults and 1 in 4 children live with overweight and obesity. Across Australia, children in lower socio-economic areas are facing rising obesity rates. Modelling shows that children born in the decade from 2023 could have a shorter life expectancy than their parents, with a projected reduction of up to 5 years off their life expectancy due to the impact of overweight and obesity.

The GenQ Health and Wellbeing Community Accelerator Grants (GenQ Accelerator Grants) are part of HWQld’s Grants Program. Community Grants provide a valuable opportunity to improve health and wellbeing outcomes and benefit communities across Queensland. Together, we have a chance to create lasting change for the next generation, where every Queenslander can live their best life, regardless of where they are in our State.

GenQ Accelerator Grants are only available to recipients of a completed 2023 GenQ Health and Wellbeing Community Grant (2023 GenQ Community Grants).

The aim of the GenQ Accelerator Grants is to further support the impact of the 2023 GenQ Community Grants through an opportunity to apply for additional funding to support the expansion and/or scale-up of their community-led projects.

The GenQ Accelerator Grants will continue to target one or more of the following priority or at-risk populations:

• Infants, children and young people
• Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples
• People experiencing social or economic disadvantage
• People living with disability
• People from culturally, linguistically and/or spiritually diverse backgrounds, including recent migrants and refugees
• People living in rural areas of Queensland
• People living in remote regions of Queensland.

The objectives of the GenQ Accelerator Grants remain as per the initially funded 2023 GenQ Community Grants:

1. Nutrition

Increase knowledge of nutrition and empower people and communities to increase consumption of vegetables and fruits, and support people to maintain a healthy weight to meet recommendations in the Australian Dietary Guidelines (2013) and Infant Feeding Guidelines (2012).

2. Physical Activity

Improve opportunities and access to increase levels of physical activity and support people to maintain a healthy weight to meet the relevant national Physical activity and exercise guidelines for their age group.

3. Sleep

Promote better sleep to increase the proportion of Queenslanders meeting the sleep and sedentary recreational screentime recommendations in the Physical activity and exercise guidelines and the Australian Sleep Health Foundation recommendations.

4. Wellbeing

Facilitate projects and activities to support wellbeing, including emotional, social, psychological, mental, spiritual and cultural wellbeing, and create community connectedness to align with the Queensland Children’s Wellbeing Framework and HWQld's Wellbeing Approach.

5. Health Equity

Facilitate improved access to health services and resources when and where Queenslanders need them, with a focus on promoting health equity.

GenQ Accelerator Grants focus on achieving specific, measurable outcomes and long-term impacts from the funded projects. This way we can track and report on the impact of the grant program, and answer the question of ‘did our grants make a difference?’.

Outcomes are the quantifiable results or changes that came from each project (such as 90% of attendees reported improved skills, greater knowledge, better access to food, better sleep when their screen time was reduced etc).

Eligible applicants may submit only ONE grant application.

Free and independent support is available for your GenQ Accelerator Grant application through The University of Queensland’s Health and Wellbeing Centre for Research Innovation (HWCRI).  

This opportunity, which is available through a partnership between HWQld and HWCRI, includes: 

• access to a pre-recorded webinar by the HWCRI team 

• access to one-on-one online development sessions with HWCRI’s experts to help design the application and the project evaluation plan. 

These sessions will be available until grant applications close as shown in the Key dates section of the Guidelines. For further information, please contact Dr Samantha Mulcahy, Research Program Manager via email at HWCRI (hwcri@uq.edu.au).