Tasmanian Community Food Relief Grants Program 2025

Status: OPEN - closes 2pm, Friday 28 February 2025

Aim

As part of the Tasmanian Government's 2030 Plan, a 2024 State Election Commitment was made to provide $1 million to retain all increased emergency food relief funding for a further year while a new whole-of-government Strategy is developed to continue the significant shift from food relief to food resilience in our State.

Overview

The Program's purpose is to fund not-for-profit Tasmanian community organisations that currently provide food relief directly to members of their local community, to increase the provision of direct food relief for people in need.

Funding is primarily for food relief, including ready-to-eat meals and/or food hampers.

Ready-to-Eat Meals

For ready-to-eat meals, funding may be provided for the:

• Purchase of ingredients and packaging to prepare ready-to-eat meals.
• Costs of delivery of pre-packaged meals.
• Purchase of additional storage items such as freezers or shelving to enable the organisation to provide food relief.

Ready-to-eat meals must be prepared in accordance with food safety standards and Australian Dietary guidelines.

Ready-to-eat meals can be either served on-site or pre-packaged.

Food Hampers

For food hampers, funding may be provided for the:

• Purchase of food staples such as fresh fruit and vegetables, pasta, rice, cereal, flour, butter, milk, and including food for those with cultural, medical, or dietary needs (excluding alcohol).
• Costs of delivery of food hampers.

Low-cost or free food hampers can be either served on-site or pre-packaged.

Eligibility

The Program is open to not-for-profit community organisations that currently provide direct food relief to members of local communities. For the purposes of this Grants Program, ‘local community’ is considered to be the local government municipal area. It is expected that the majority of people accessing those services live in the municipal area.

Applicants must:

• Be a not-for-profit organisation that delivers food relief to Tasmanians; being an
  organisation that delivers community support, services and/or programs to
  Tasmanian’s; and
• Hold a currently active Australian Business Number (ABN)

And be one of the following:

• An incorporated organisation, or auspiced by a not-for-profit legal entity;
• Other legal entity;
• A parents and friends association;
• A not-for-profit organisation; or
• A not-for-profit company registered under company law.

Funding Arrangements

Organisations can apply for up to $10,000 with a limit of one application per organisation, with a total funding pool of $500,000.

Funding will be non-recurrent, meaning that this is ‘one-off’, and will not continue in future years.

Funding will be distributed to organisations from late April 2025, with projects expected to be completed by 30 September 2025.

Guide to Applicants

Please read and understand the Guidelines below before making an  application

• Guidelines
• Application Form

Previous Successful Applicants

• List of Successful Applicants 2023

For further information, please contact Community Grants by emailing grants@dpac.tas.gov.au or phoning on 1800 204 224.