2025 Health and Wellbeing Community Grants

PLEASE READ THE 2025 Health and Wellbeing Community 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.

The 2025 Health and Wellbeing Community Grants (Community Grants) form a part of HWQld’s Grant 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.

The aim of the Community Grants is to encourage and support community-led projects across Queensland to improve health and wellbeing within the community.

We are looking for projects that show innovation, as well as alignment with your community's specific needs. 

The five objectives of the Health and Wellbeing Community Grants are:

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.

You are strongly encouraged to consider at-risk priority populations when developing your application.  These may include, but are not limited to:

• 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 who identify as LGBTQIA+
• People living in rural areas of Queensland
• People living in remote regions of Queensland.

The Community Grants focus on achieving specific, measurable outcomes that demonstrate real 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 refer to the quantifiable results or changes achieved through each funded project (such as 90% of attendees reported improved skills or greater knowledge; increased access to healthy food, improved sleep outcomes linked to reduced screen time etc).

Projects should be designed with clear outcomes in mind and supported by appropriate monitoring and evaluation.

An organisation may submit up to two grant applications.

Each application must be for a different project with different aims, objectives and expected outcomes.