Archived Grant Opportunity View - GO5427

The Indigenous Australians’ Health Programme (IAHP) funds a range of activities including primary health care, child, maternal and family health, and chronic disease prevention and management. 

The purpose of the grants in this Grant Opportunity Guideline is to support primary prevention activities for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander young people and adults by encouraging healthy lifestyles through physical activity, including as part of sporting programs. The objectives of the grants are: 

• to develop future health leaders to advocate, champion and deliver health promotion and preventative health activities and services; 

• to support and encourage Indigenous men, women and children to become more physically active, improve their food choices, adopt a healthy lifestyle, and reduce their risk of chronic disease.

The intended outcomes of the grants are:

• The delivery of a specific Indigenous health promotion and leadership program that recruits, develops and supports Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people to train for and run in marathons, including undertaking educational and leadership training. 

• The delivery of the John Moriarty Football program to young community members in the Northern Territory, Queensland, and New South Wales to promote physical activity and healthy lifestyles. 

• The delivery of the REAL Health Program to address barriers to health and wellbeing by engaging Aboriginal youth and focusing on physical activities that encourage cultural connection, nutrition, health and mental wellbeing, mental health first aid training and fitness.

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To be eligible to apply you must be the listed organisations and have received an invitation to apply.

You are not eligible to apply if you are an organisation, or your project partner is an organisation, included on the National Redress Scheme’s website on the list of ‘Institutions that have not joined or signified their intent to join the Scheme’.To be eligible to apply you must be the listed organisations and have received an invitation to apply.

If the potential grantee does not satisfy the eligibility criteria, it will not be considered.

Eligible organisation/s ABN

Indigenous Marathon Foundation Ltd 39 162 317 455

Moriarty Foundation Ltd 39 149 339 284

Richmond Football Club Ltd 25 679 793 340

Rationale for Invitation:

The eligible organisations are invited to apply for this grant opportunity as they have been assessed to have:

·        capability to deliver the project activities and demonstrated ability to have done successfully delivered these activities in the past;

·        existing infrastructure and relationships to support the project activities;

·        experience and capability to deliver the grant objectives and outcomes; and

·        demonstrated value for money[1] to deliver outcomes in the current market.

The department has considered the three eligible organisations (the Indigenous Marathon Foundation, Moriarty Foundation and the Richmond Football Club) to be the only organisations able to deliver the Indigenous Marathon Project, the John Moriarty Football Program and the REAL Healthy program.

$577,000,000.00

The eligible organisation/s do not need to submit an application for this grant opportunity.