Seniors – Heart of the Bush Marketing

Seniors Festival Grants

12 July 20228 July 2022 Melanie

Funder: NSW – Family & Community Services

Grant Background: The NSW Seniors Festival grants program encourages seniors in NSW to enjoy new experiences, continue learning, stay active and connect to their communities. The grants provide opportunities for people over 60, and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders, and people with a lifelong disability over the age of 50, to remain active and engaged in their local communities.

The grants program:

supports a broad range of local community organisations
supports programs and activities in regional NSW
fosters partnerships with community groups and services
provides programs and activities for diverse communities in NSW
supports projects that empower older people to stay connected
assists organisations to increase the capacity of current programs and activities.

Type of projects funded under this grant

Programs offering access to expert advice, information, tools and resources
Free samples of activities during the NSW Seniors Festival
Opportunities to connect seniors with local organisations and services
Outdoor and physically active workshops.

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Health, Seniors

Aged Care Workforce Bonus Payment

4 April 2022 Melanie

Funder: Federal – Health

Grant Background: The Aged Care Workforce Bonus Payment grant opportunity is to assist in the retention and attraction of aged care workers both in the residential aged care and home care package environments, who are supporting and protecting some of Australia’s most vulnerable citizens during the pandemic.

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Seniors

2022 NSW Seniors Festival Grants

10 August 20216 August 2021 Melanie

Funder: NSW – Family & Community Services

Grant Background: The 2022 NSW Seniors Festival Grants Program provides $200,000 in seed funding to organisations and councils to run local festival programs and activities that provide opportunities for people over 60 to remain active, healthy, engaged and contributing to their local communities

NSW Seniors Festival Grants support a range of programs and activities, for example:

Programs offering access to expert advice, information, tools and resources
Free samples of activities during NSW Seniors Festival
Opportunities to connect seniors with local organisations and services
Outdoor and physically active workshops

Applications can be for small scale, multiple and larger activities throughout the NSW Seniors Festival.

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Health, Seniors

Homecare Workforce Support

9 August 20216 August 2021 Melanie

Funder: Federal – Health

Grant Background: As part of the Homecare Workforce Support programme nine grants will be provided to organisations or consortia to work collaboratively with key stakeholders to attract, train and support the retention of an additional 13,000 Personal Care Workers (PCWs) nationally to the home care sector by June 2023.

The objectives of the program are to:

support the home care sector to attract, train and retain an additional 13,000 PCWs in order to support growing demand for consumer access to home care;
assist new PCWs (e.g. students and new entrants) to receive the skills and training required to deliver quality aged care services;
enhance the skills of the existing workforce to ensure better support for new PCWs to the home care workforce to help improve retention; and
provide targeted support to aged care providers to promote consumer access to home care in rural and remote areas, this category could include residential aged care providers or other care services in those regions.

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Let me show you how to write better grant applications…

2 March 2021 Melanie

Would you like to apply for grants, but don’t know where to start?

Have you applied for a grant before and the silence has been deafening in reply?

Does it all seem too big or too hard?

You are not on your own…

Tackling grant applications can be overwhelming with a million questions and the need to supply endless words, budgets and supporting documents – all within a very short time frame.

Don’t worry, I can help you research and write stronger grant applications.

I have been writing grants for around 30 years and have learned a few tips and tricks along the way. Let me show you how to take some of the mystery out of what makes a solid and successful grant application.

Ask me about:

Running a face-to-face workshop for your group or business.
Providing a mentoring service as you work your way through an application.
Reviewing your finished product and providing some fresh eyes on ways to improve what you have drafted, or
Writing the whole darn thing!

Happy to chat about which option works best for you.

Have a great day and Good Luck! Melanie

Seniors

2020 NSW Seniors Festival Grants

22 July 201915 July 2019 Melanie

Funder: NSW – Family & Community Services

Grant Background: The NSW Seniors Festival will be held across NSW from 12–23 February 2020.

Grants are available for local councils and organisations to host a 2020 NSW Seniors Festival event. The festival will provide opportunities for people over 60 to remain active, healthy and engaged in their local communities.

NSW Seniors Festival Grants support a range of programs and events, for example:

Events offering access to expert advice, information, tools and resources
Free samples of activities during NSW Seniors Festival
Opportunities to connect seniors with local organisations and services
Outdoor and physically active workshops

The grants will provide $200,000 to organisations and councils to host local festival events and activities.

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