Applications Now Open For Connecting Seniors Grant Program

Applications for the Connecting Seniors Grant program are now open and will remain so until 5 pm on Wednesday, October 25.

The grants can provide a social lifeline for seniors who live alone and ensure older people stay connected and age well.

Senior citizens are encouraged to reach out to the council with suggestions.

As well as local Councils operating under the Local Government Act 1993, incorporated not-for-profit community organisations are eligible to apply for the grants.

Those incorporated organisations include:

• Incorporated organisations registered and approved as not-for-profit bodies by NSW Fair Trading;
• Not-for-profit companies, limited by guarantee and registered in NSW (must have ACNC registration and/or DGR status);
• Associations (registered under the Associations Incorporation Act 2009 with NSW Fair Trading);
• NSW Local Aboriginal Land Councils;
• Religious organisations operating in NSW; and
• NSW non-government organisations that were established under an Act of Parliament.

Does your project create a new program fostering social connections for older people?

Does it enhance or expand a successful program that fosters social connection with a focus on older people, not a duplicate or replacement of a similar success program?

If so, you may be onto a winner.

Priority is given to projects supporting the following groups:

• Aboriginal people aged 50 years and over;
• People from culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) backgrounds;
• People living with disability, dementia, chronic disease or mental illness;
• Carers;
• People in rural, regional and remote areas; and
• People who are lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex, queer or asexual (LGBTIQA+).

• Topics:

• Seniors
• Grants / Funding