Archived Grant Opportunity View - GO6816

The grant opportunity (GO) will fund an organisation/s for the establishment and early operations of a National Mental Health Consumer Peak Body to support and represent mental health consumer perspectives at a national level.

The purpose of this GO is to embed diverse lived experience leadership and perspectives throughout the mental health and suicide prevention system.

The GO will provide funding of $3,755,000.00 (GST exclusive) from 2023-24 to 2025-26. The key objective of this GO is to establish a representative body that will ensure people with lived and/or living experiences of mental health needs as consumers can collectively shape the policies, services, programs and systems that affect them.

To view the grant opportunity documents, please select the red "Grant Opportunity Documents" button on the left-hand side.

To be eligible you must:

• have an Australian Business Number (ABN);

• be registered for the purposes of GST; and

• have an account with an Australian financial institution.

And 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 Statutory Authority

• Corporate State or Territory Entity

• 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 from consortia are acceptable, providing there is a lead organisation that is solely accountable to the Commonwealth for the delivery of grant activities and is an eligible entity as per the list above. Only the lead organisation can submit the application form and enter into a grant agreement with the Commonwealth. Eligible organisations can form a consortium with ineligible organisations, with the exception of those organisations deemed ineligible because they are 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’.

$3,755,000.00

Manual application form (via GrantConnect)

Submit the completed application form and all necessary attachments by the closing date and time via the red Submit Application button on the left-hand side.

You should keep a copy of your application and any supporting documents. Registered users will receive an automated email notification acknowledging the receipt of the submission. If you do not receive an automated email notification within 48 hours of submission, please email Grant.ATM@health.gov.au.

For technical assistance when submitting your application through GrantConnect please contact the GrantConnect Helpdesk:

• Phone: 1300 484 145

• Email: GrantConnect@finance.gov.au 

Manual application form (via GrantConnect)

Applicant/s should follow the below instructions to upload their application:

• Filename(s) do not exceed 100 characters.

• Any file type can be submitted to GrantConnect.

Refrain from using special characters. These include, but are not limited to, colon, forward and back slash, question marks, en and em dash.

• A maximum of five (5) separate files can be submitted at one time.

• Do not include macros or password protect applications or attachments.