Closed Grant Opportunity View - GO7240

The Australian Government is inviting organisations to apply in an open competitive grant process to deliver services under the Families and Communities Program – Financial Wellbeing and Capability (FWC) Activity – Financial Wellbeing Hubs from 1 July 2025 to 30 June 2030.

Financial Wellbeing Hubs will provide integrated, co-located financial counselling, financial capability and emergency relief (material and financial aid) services, and access to safe and affordable financial products in areas with high levels of financial vulnerability such as socio-economic disadvantage.

Financial Wellbeing Hubs have a strong focus on early intervention and financial capability, while also supporting people who are experiencing financial crisis. Financial Wellbeing Hubs contribute to the FWC Activity by helping eligible people to access information, advice and support to address financial issues, make informed choices and build longer-term financial capability and resilience.

Financial Wellbeing Hubs may be targeted towards First Nations communities, culturally and linguistically diverse communities, youth, people with a disability and people impacted by family and domestic violence.

This grant opportunity will be open for 7 weeks for applications through GrantConnect.

Please read the Grant Opportunity Guidelines to find out if your organisation is eligible.

Applications may involve a consortium of partners, with a lead organisation nominated as the ‘applicant’.

If you are an Unincorporated Association please see the Grant Opportunity Guidelines for more information on eligibility.

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

• Company
• Cooperative
• Corporate Commonwealth Entity
• Corporate State or Territory Entity
• Incorporated Association
• Indigenous Corporation
• Local Government
• Non-Corporate Commonwealth Statutory Authority
• Non-corporate State or Territory Entity
• Non-corporate State or Territory Statutory Authority
• Partnership 
• Statutory Entity.

If you are applying as a Trustee on behalf of a Trust , the Trustee must be one of the eligible entity types listed above.

Assessment of applications - 4 weeks 

Approval of outcomes of selection process - 4 weeks 

Notification to applicants - 2 weeks 

Negotiations and award of grant agreements - Up to 6 weeks

Earliest start date of grant activity - 1 July 2025

End date of grant activity - 30 June 2030

To apply you must:

• complete the online application form on GrantConnect 
• provide all the information requested
• address all eligibility criteria and assessment criteria
• complete all required templates
• include all necessary attachments
• submit your application/s to the Community Grants Hub by 9:00pm AEDT on 9 December 2024.

Update to the description on this landing page and questions 25 to 28 under the Service Delivery subsection are new.

Please use:

• Financial Wellbeing and Capability Activity - Financial Wellbeing Hubs - Question and Answers - version 2