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Ageing well

The focus of the Ageing Well program is to address systemic issues reducing the quality of life for older Victorians – specifically, areas of healthy ageing, financial abuse, and social isolation. 

Key dates

Status: Closed

Grant round opens September 2025 (TBC)

Granting overview

Available Funding: 3-year grants of up to $250,000 per year 

Application process: Via SmartyGrants (advertised) 

Program objectives

We have developed the Ageing Well grant program to address systemic issues reducing quality of life for older Victorians. We focus on healthy ageing, financial abuse, and social isolation. 

 

Fact: By 2031 it is projected that 57% of Victoria’s population will be over 65 (State Government of Victoria 2019).

 

We are seeking submissions that: 

  • Address systemic issues relating to ‘positive ageing’ for older Victorians 
  • Are innovative and take a systems view 
  • Have a focus on prevention 
  • Deploy integrative and collective impact approaches 
  • Promote cross‐sector collaboration 
  • Provide an evidence base to demonstrate the effectiveness of programs 
  • Are Victorian based 

Eligibility

Item 1 DGR organisations which are registered as a charity with the Australian Charities and Not-for-profits Commission and endorsed with charity tax concessions.

Past recipients

Total Amount Granted: Total Amount Granted: over $1 million since 2020

Financial year

Organisation

Project

Amount

FY23-25

La Trobe University (The John Richards Centre for Rural Ageing Research)

Building rural older people’s skills for positive ageing – co-designing new community resources and programs to improve age-friendly health care literacy

$510,627

FY23-25

Live Life Get Active

Promoting physical activity, healthy eating and providing the skills and knowledge to support positive ageing and independence

$231,743

FY22

National Ageing Research Institute

The ENJOY MAP for HEALTH: Exercise interveNtion outdoor proJect in the cOmmunitY for older people – More Active People for HEALTHier communities

$277,006

FY21

National Ageing Research Institute

The ENJOY MAP for HEALTH: Exercise interveNtion outdoor proJect in the cOmmunitY for older people – More Active People for HEALTHier communities

$247,846

FY20

National Ageing Research Institute

The ENJOY MAP for HEALTH: Exercise interveNtion outdoor proJect in the cOmmunitY for older people – More Active People for HEALTHier communities

$250,600

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