Closed Grant Opportunity View - GO6692

The Advice, advocacy and support services for working women grant program (the program) will run over 5 financial years from 2023-24 to 2027-28.

The program contributes to the achievement of the ‘Department of Employment and Workplace Relations Program 3.1: Workplace Support’, which is part of ‘Outcome 3: Facilitate jobs growth, including secure work, through policies and programs that promote fair, productive and safe workplaces’.

The program is part of the Australian Government’s response to the Australian Human Rights Commission’s Respect@Work: National Inquiry into Sexual Harassment in Australian Workplaces Report (Respect@Work Report). This program implements recommendation 49 of the Respect@Work Report.

Working women’s centres are not-for-profit organisations that provide holistic trauma-informed services. This includes free information, advocacy, advice and assistance to women on workplace issues, including workplace entitlements and rights, gender issues, cultural diversity, discrimination and sexual harassment. Working women’s centres are accessible to women from culturally and linguistically diverse communities, women in regional, rural and remote areas, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women, women with a disability, women under the age of 25, people who identify as women, and women who are experiencing mental health concerns or family violence.

This grant opportunity will establish and fund working women’s centres in the Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Tasmania, Victoria and Western Australia.

To be eligible to receive a grant, you must:

- be an existing not-for-profit organisation (established prior to 1 January 2023), and

- be already providing, or have the capacity to provide, services to women who experience workplace sexual harassment and other workplace issues, with a focus on cultural safety and inclusion.

Applications from consortia are acceptable, as long as a lead applicant is put in place. A lead applicant, as outlined further below, will be solely accountable to the Commonwealth for the delivery of grant activities and must be eligible per the eligibility requirements in these guidelines.

05/2024 – 30/06/2028

$26,887,887.00

download and complete the application form available through GrantConnect

provide all the information requested

address all eligibility criteria and assessment criteria

provide the completed Finanical and Credentials Information Form located with the Grant Opportunity Documents

include all necessary attachments

email your application to the department via wwc@dewr.gov.au 

See guidelines