Archived Grant Opportunity View - GO7600

From 1 July 2025, providers of Home Care Packages (HCP) Program and the Short-Term Restorative Care (STRC) Programme will transition into the Support at Home program.

For providers that operate in thin markets, the costs of delivering care and services can be particularly high in regional and remote locations and / or when delivering specialised services.

This grant opportunity provides 1 year of one-off funding in 2025-26, to HCP and STRC providers operating in identified thin markets (rural, remote or specialised), that is supplementary to fee-for-service revenue and can be used flexibly for appropriate business and service delivery expenses.

This grant opportunity targets HCP and STRC providers who:

1. currently deliver services to care recipients in Modified Monash areas 3, 4, 5, 6 or 7, and / or
2. currently hold, or have applied for, a valid Specialisation Verification for aged care services (excluding Specialisation Verification for People who live in rural or remote areas).

We cannot consider your application if you do not satisfy all the eligibility criteria.

To be eligible you must be one of the following entity types:

• Indigenous Corporation (registered under the Corporations (Aboriginal and /or Torres Strait Islander) Act 2006)
• Company
• Corporate Commonwealth Entity
• Non-Corporate Commonwealth Entity
• Non-Corporate Commonwealth Statutory Authority
• Corporate State or Territory Entity
• Non-corporate State or Territory Entity
• Non-corporate State or Territory Statutory Authority
• Local Government
• Cooperative
• Incorporated Association
• Statutory Entity
• Partnership, or
• Unincorporated Association.

If you are applying as a Trustee on behalf of a Trust, the Trustee must have an eligible entity type as listed above.

Applications can only be accepted from existing Home Care Packages (HCP) Program and the Short-Term Restorative Care (STRC) Programme providers (at the time of application) who:

• have care recipients in Modified Monash areas 3, 4, 5, 6 or 7, and / or
• currently hold a valid Specialisation Verification for aged care services (excluding Specialisation Verification for People who live in rural or remote areas), or have submitted an application for Specialisation Verification that is pending approval.

All Mandatory Attachments, including a correctly completed Thin Markets Care Recipient Template must be provided for an application to be considered.

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’.
• are an organisation, or your project partner is an organisation, included on the Workplace Gender Equality Agency website on the non-compliant organisations list. 

Potential grantees are advised that an election for the House of Representatives may be called before this grant process has been concluded. If an election is called and the House of Representatives is dissolved, then caretaker arrangements will apply to the business of government. By convention, decisions are not taken during this period that would bind an incoming government and limit its freedom of action. Consequently, potential grantees need to be aware that any grant processes which have not been concluded before the caretaker period, or which commence during the caretaker period, may experience delays in finalisation and could potentially be revised or cancelled.

$297,400,000.00

Submit the completed application form and all necessary attachments by the closing date and time via the Online Application Form document located via the "Grant Opportunity Documents" button on the left-hand side.

You should keep a copy of your application and any supporting documents. You will receive an automated email notification acknowledging the receipt of the submission which includes your Submission Reference ID. Retain this ID if you wish to query your application. If you do not receive an automated email notification within 48 hours of submission, please email Grant.ATM@health.gov.au.

Note the 2MB limit per attachment in the application form. Multiple files/documents should be scanned into a single document. Compressed or zip files are not accepted. File names must be unique and not include foreign characters.