Key information
- Status: Closed
- Grant amount: $30,000
- Application opened: 16 September 2024
- Application closed: 21 October 2024, 5:00 pm
Program objective
The 2025 Grant Program aims to build social connections and reduce isolation for older people, including those aged 65 years and over, or 50 years and over for Aboriginal people.
The objectives of the Connecting Seniors grant program are to:
• provide meaningful and lasting social connections that can be maintained beyond the program
• help older people connect with each other through small group activities held in person throughout the year to build and maintain social connections (rather than a one-off activity)
• enable older people to develop lasting quality relationships.
• engage new people, particularly harder-to-reach older people
• help older people and young people connect through intergenerational projects.
This program is funded and administered by Department of Communities and Justice.
Eligibility
Who can apply
Please refer to the Grant Program Guidelines and to DCJ Grants for resources and supporting documents
Types of projects funded under this grant
Please refer to the Grant Program Guidelines and to DCJ Grants for resources and supporting documents
When the project can start and end
The project should be started by 1 January 2025 and the project must be completed by 31 January 2026.
What your application needs to include
Prepare your application with this checklist
Please refer to the Grant Program Guidelines and to DCJ Grants for resources and supporting documents
Address the eligibility criteria
Each applicant, as part of an application response, must confirm that they meet the eligibility criteria.
Applicants that do not address the eligibility criteria in full may be excluded from the application process at the department's discretion.
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Please refer to the Grant Program Guidelines and to DCJ Grants for resources and supporting documents
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After the application is submitted
Successful applications will be decided by: Minister Harrison
Please refer to the Grant Program Guidelines and to DCJ Grants for resources and supporting documents
Support and contact
Seniors
Disability Inclusion and Seniors
Strategy, Policy and Commissioning
Seniors@dcj.nsw.gov.au
Department of Communities and Justice