Financial Wellbeing & Capability Activity Grant Opportunity: Financial Wellbeing Hubs
The Australian Government is inviting organisations to apply for funding under the Financial Wellbeing and Capability Activity – Financial Wellbeing Hubs program (formerly Money Support Hubs), through an open competitive grant process.
Up to $95.1 million over 5 years will be available, nationally, from 1 July 2025 to 30 June 2030.
Financial Wellbeing Hubs will provide integrated, co-located financial wellbeing services, with a strong focus on early intervention and financial capability. Integrated services will include financial counselling and financial capability, Emergency Relief and access to Microfinance products, and will focus on supporting individuals to increase their financial and digital literacy and longer-term financial resilience.
Hubs may be targeted including for First Nations communities, culturally and linguistically diverse communities, youth, people with disability and people impacted by family and domestic violence.
A priority for these grants is that funded organisations are recognised in the community as a ‘one-stop’ location for financial wellbeing services.
Organisations funded to deliver Hubs will be expected to work closely with other services in the region. This includes identifying opportunities for consortia and/or co-location for integration of services.
The grant opportunity is expected to open in coming weeks, for 7 weeks.
Further information will be included in the Grant Opportunity Guidelines.
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Financial Wellbeing & Capability Activity Grant Opportunity: Emergency Relief
The Australian Government is inviting organisations to apply for funding under the Financial Wellbeing and Capability Activity – Emergency Relief program, through an open competitive grant process.
Up to $345 million over 5 years will be available for these grants, from 1 July 2025 to 30 June 2030.
Emergency Relief is a national financial crisis response program that supports people experiencing financial stress who have limited resources to help them with their financial crisis.
Supports may include food parcels, clothes or vouchers, such as for supermarket items, utilities or petrol.
The program aims to help people manage their immediate crisis, refers people to other relevant services and encourages greater self-reliance.
This grant opportunity is expected to open in coming weeks, for 6 weeks.
Priorities for Emergency Relief grants include:
services are responsive to client and community needs and demand, including from unforeseen crisis events such as disasters
a mix of face-to-face, phone, online and outreach services
service coverage at a national, state and regional level with funding provided at the ABS Statistical Area Level 4 (SA4)
wrap around services, referrals and/or case management for clients with complex needs
specialist staff training
mix of large, small, First Nations and multicultural providers
support for consortia arrangements.
Further details will be available in Grant Opportunity Guidelines.
The Australian Government is inviting organisations to apply for funding under the Financial Wellbeing and Capability (FWC) Activity – Commonwealth Financial Counselling and Financial Capability (CFCFC) program, through an open competitive grant process.
Up to $98.6 million over 5 years will be available nationally from 1 July 2025 to 30 June 2030.
CFCFC provides free, confidential and non-judgmental financial counselling and financial capability services, including information, advice and advocacy to eligible people experiencing financial difficulty.
These services help people in financial difficulty to work through immediate financial problems, and build long-term financial capability to withstand future financial impacts.
This grant opportunity is expected to be open in coming weeks for 6 weeks.
Priorities for CFCFC grants include:
services are responsive to client and community needs and demand, including from unforeseen crisis events such as disasters
a focus on early intervention
a mix of face-to-face, phone, online and outreach services
services and funding provided at the ABS Statistical Area Level 4
wrap around services and referrals for clients with complex needs
specialist staff training
mix of large, small, First Nations and multicultural providers
support for consortia arrangements
participation in sector-wide financial counselling projects.
Further details will be in the Grant Opportunity Guidelines.
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Financial Wellbeing & Capability Activity Grant Opportunity: Food Relief
The Australian Government is inviting organisations to apply for funding under the Financial Wellbeing and Capability Activity – Food Relief program, through an open competitive grant process.
Up to $20.1 million over 5 years will be available for these grants from 1 July 2025 to 30 June 2030.
Food Relief is a national financial crisis response program that increases access to a cost-effective supply of food and/or material aid for Emergency Relief providers. This is through:
receiving and redistributing donated food and/or material aid (including new or unused stock)
producing, sourcing and transporting food and/or material aid to Emergency Relief providers.
Material aid may include toiletries, personal hygiene products, cleaning products, blankets, clothing, school supplies and essential white goods.
Applicants can choose to supply food and/or material aid.
This grant opportunity is expected to open in coming weeks, for 6 weeks.
Priorities for Food Relief grants include:
responsiveness to client and community needs and demand, including from unforeseen crisis events like disasters
coverage at the national, state and regional levels, including regional and remote areas of high disadvantage
staff training and development
food safety and cultural considerations
collaboration and partnerships including consortia arrangements.
Further details will be available in the Grant Opportunity Guidelines.
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National Disability Conference Initiative
The National Disability Conference Initiative (NDCI) 2025-26 grant opportunity is expected to open for applications in November 2024.
This grant opportunity provides grants of up to $10,000 to disability conference organisers to assist people with disability participate in nationally focused, disability-related, conferences held in Australia. Grants will support eligible conference organisers to provide accessibility measures that maximise the inclusion and participation of people living with disability at their disability focused conference/s.
This grant opportunity will be administered by the Community Grants Hub on behalf of the Department of Social Services (DSS).
To receive the latest information on this upcoming NDCI Grant Opportunity, please subscribe to the Community Grants Hub.
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Families and Communities Program – Strong and Resilient Communities (SARC) Activity – Round 4
SARC - Inclusive Communities grants will support the social and economic participation of vulnerable and disadvantaged people in their communities by providing funding that supports:
young people 12 to 18 years who are disengaged, or at risk of disengaging, from education to reconnect with their community, school, training and/or employment
people with a disability to participate in the community, and work towards becoming or remaining independent and engaged in the economy and/or society
women who experience, or are at risk of experiencing isolation or discrimination to participate in the community and/or economy and increase their self-agency
people who are unemployed to increase participation in their community and/or increase their capacity to engage in employment, training, or existing employment services.
Funding will be available to eligible organisations to deliver one-off, time-limited, projects in their communities. Projects may include a trial, seed or start-up project to establish new activities, short-term interventions, or the significant reframing of existing activities.
This grant opportunity is a part of the Modernised Multicultural Grant Program, which will run over 4 years from 2024–25 to 2027–28 as part of the Government’s response to the Multicultural Framework Review.
This opportunity will run over 2 years from 2024–25 to 2025–26 and will target multicultural community-led grassroots organisations. Eligible organisations will be able to apply for grants of up to $100,000 over 2 years from 2024–25 to 2025–26 for the following types of activities:
multicultural celebrations, such as festivals and events
multicultural amenities, such as building upgrades, furnishings and equipment
intercultural connections, such as intercultural sports programs or art projects.
The grant opportunity will seek to build the capacity of grassroots organisations and will be delivered in an accessible manner for multicultural community groups.
The Department of Social Services is aware of unauthorised websites and social media accounts containing false information about the national No Interest Loans Scheme (NILS).
NILS is delivered in collaboration with Good Shepherd and the National Australia Bank.
The unauthorised websites may appear as search results through web browsers, and some are posing as Good Shepherd Australia New Zealand (GSANZ) or NILS community providers.
Some of these websites have hyperlinked information about loans of up to $20,000 through the NILS program and provide inaccurate information on NILS loan limits and repayments, and asks individuals to provide their myGov and/or bank account sign in details as part of the ‘loan application’ process.
NILS staff will never:
Contact an individual via social media. If an individual has contacted Good Shepherd through the chat function they will only provide general information about how to apply for a NILS loan
Ask an individual for sensitive financial information such as online banking passwords or codes
Ask an individual for their login to online banking through a link sent via text or email
Ask an individual for their myGov and/or bank account login and password details
Ask an individual to download software
Ask an individual to transfer money
Ask an individual to set up a bank account with a specific provider to have money transferred.
What to do if an individual is contacted by a scam attempt
If an individual is contacted by one of these scams, they should not provide personal or financial information.
Report it to Good Shepherd Australia New Zealand by sending screenshots and details to: [email protected]
For the Department of Social Services, report it to [email protected]
Further advice on scams is available from the National Anti-Scam Centre: Scamwatch.
If an individual has been scammed they should consider the following actions:
Block all contact from the scammer
Call their bank and/or financial institution as soon as possible to let them know about the scam
Create new passwords
Take steps to secure personal identity documents
Watch for suspicious contact such as emails, phone calls, texts, or messages through social media and do not click on any links sent to individuals
Monitor their bank account for unauthorised transactions
Report to Scamwatch
If the scam is an advertisement, report it to the social media platform using their ad settings button
Housing Australia Future Fund Crisis and Transitional Accommodation Program
The Crisis and Transitional Accommodation Program is a capital works program funding the building, remodelling or purchase of new or expanded crisis and transitional accommodation for women and children experiencing family and domestic violence (FDV) and older women at risk of homelessness.
The Crisis and Transitional Accommodation Program forms part of the broader Housing Australia Future Fund (HAFF). Under the HAFF, the Australian Government has committed $100 million (GST exclusive) available for grants over 5 years (2024–25 to 2028–29).
More information about this Forecast Opportunity is available on GrantConnect.
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Future Drought Fund Resilient Landscapes Program
The Resilient Landscapes Program will focus on demonstrating how implementing and scaling of practices, technologies or approaches to manage natural resources on farm, contribute to building drought and climate resilience by improving landscape function and ecosystem services.
The Program will support implementation and scaling of activities that identify and manage natural capital tipping points or thresholds on farm for the public good of the Australian agriculture sector, landscapes, and communities.
Drought and climate resilience will be increased by projects that:
achieve and measure impact at scale
integrate environmental, economic, and social drought resilience
target opportunities for long-term transformational change
enable farmers to be prepared for and respond to drought
promote learning and build capacity.
$40 million is available through an open competitive grant process for projects between $2 million and $6 million. Activities must be undertaken over 6 years from 2024–25 until 2029–30.
Applications must involve a consortium of partners, with a lead organisation nominated as the ‘applicant’. Each applicant must develop a theory of change for the project.
This grant opportunity is expected to be open for up to 8 weeks. An information webinar will be held in early October for prospective applicants. Program details may change with the published grant opportunity.
