2025 Health and Wellbeing Community Grants

Grant summary

Eligible Queensland organisations, sports clubs and community groups are invited to apply for a 2025 Health and Wellbeing Queensland Community Grants, with applications now open. The grants support community-led projects that improve health and wellbeing in communities across the state, focusing on nutrition, physical activity, sleep, wellbeing, and/or health equity.

Objectives

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

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

Eligible applicants

• a not-for-profit or charitable organisation (as defined by the Australian Charities and Not-for-profit Commission)
• an incorporated association that is either based in Queensland or has a branch in Queensland
• an Indigenous Corporation (registered with the Office of the Registrar of Indigenous Corporations)
• a Queensland local government authority
• State and independent schools
• a Queensland State School Parent and Citizens’ Association (P&C) or a non-state school Parents and Friends Association (P&F).

Funding

Each individual grant value is between $5,000 to $20,000 (excluding GST), with a total funding pool of up to $400,000 (excluding GST).

Online Forums

Two free online forums will be held virtually via Microsoft Teams to support any organisations interested in applying for a 2025 Community Grant. Each forum will include an overview of the application process, the application form and the Guidelines. Participants are encouraged to ask questions. A Q&A summary will then be published on the HWQld website to ensure equal access to information.

Online forum 1:  Tuesday 8 July at 12 noon (approx. 45 minutes) [Register here]

Online forum 2: Wednesday 9 July at 5pm (approx. 45 minutes) [Register here]

Please note forums will not be recorded to protect participant privacy.

Key dates