About this Grant
Cancer Australia invites applications for funding under the Supporting people with cancer (SPWC) Grant initiative. The SPWC Grant initiative is an annual grants program that aims to support people affected by cancer through the provision of grants to community organisations and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander organisations.
The SPWC Grant initiative will fund evidence-based projects to reduce the impact of cancer and better support people affected by cancer. Community organisations and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander organisations supporting people affected by cancer can apply for grants of up to $120,000 (GST exclusive) over a three-year period (2023-2026). Grants for projects to be conducted over a period less than three years should not exceed $40,000 (GST exclusive) per annum.
Who can apply?
To be eligible the applicant must be a community organisation or an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander organisation registered with the Australian Charities and Not-for-profits Commission (ACNC) and can demonstrate strong linkages with community. New partnerships (or consortia) are also encouraged to apply to reduce the impact of cancer and better support people affected by cancer. Consortia wishing to apply must identify a lead organisation, the lead organisation of all applications must be a community organisation or an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander organisation.
Eligibility
Community organisations and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander organisations must ensure that they are eligible to enter into a funding agreement with Cancer Australia before submitting their application. Applicant organisations must be registered with the Australian Charities and Not-for-profits Commission (ACNC). Individuals are not eligible to apply for this funding.
Applicants must complete the application form in full. Cancer Australia reserves the right to decline to assess applications which do not meet this requirement. Successful applicants will be required to sign a funding agreement prior to receiving any funding. Funding is conditional on the achievement of milestones as specified in the funding agreement.
Who is not eligible to apply for a grant?
The applicant is not eligible to apply if they are:
• An individual
• A university
• A research institute
• Government entities
• Hospitals and other health services not deemed a community organisation
• A for profit association/company/organisation
• An overseas resident
• An organisation associated with the tobacco industry
• An organisation that is not registered with the Australian Charities and Not-for- profits Commission (ACNC)
What the grant money can be used for
To be eligible your grant application must be for a new project that will support people affected by cancer. Eligible activities must directly relate to the SPWC Grant initiative and can include:
•Activities that can demonstrate direct improvements in outcomes for people whose outcomes are inequitable, including specific activities that focus on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples; people from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds; people from rural and regional communities; and people living in lower socioeconomic status areas.
• Activities that have national applicability and can be applied locally.
• Involving consumers in targeted, evidence-based, best-practice approaches to the development of better information about cancer, and in support services for people affected by cancer.
• Coordinating consumer involvement in the development of decision-making tools and resources that will help consumers to better navigate the cancer patient journey.
• Developing online, multi-media consumer information kits for cancers.
• Providing quality, innovative and sustainable approaches to supporting people affected by cancer through activities in addition to face-to-face cancer support networks, teleconferencing, rural workshops and other linking methods
• Increase access to and participation in cancer screening and immunisation for the prevention and early detection of cancers and early diagnosis of symptomatic cancers
• Developing opportunities to build consumer capacity within specific population groups
• Supporting better access to optimal and culturally appropriate cancer treatment, services, and supportive and palliative care
• Dissemination of information and resources, including those that are culturally safe for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people
• Facilitating yarning sessions between Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, communities and organisations
Eligible expenditure
Applicants cannot use grant funding for activities that are not directly related to the proposed project. The Delegate makes the final decision on what is eligible expenditure and may give additional guidance on eligible expenditure if required. The expenditure on the project must be incurred between the start date and end or completion date of the grant agreement for it to be eligible.
What the grant money cannot be used for
Applicants cannot use grant funding for the following activities:
• A project that has already commenced prior to the execution of a funding agreement
• Projects that are a continuation of an existing project
• Ongoing operating (recurrent) costs
• Service delivery by health professionals (health services already covered by the Medicare Benefits Schedule [MBS]) or the National Health Reform Agreement (NHRA)
• Assets (hardware and property)
• Scholarships
• Research
• PhD funding
The assessment criteria
The SPWC Grant initiative has two Grant assessment processes:
• One for community organisations, and
• One for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander organisations
Community organisations applications will be assessed by an Application Assessment Panel and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander organisations will be assessed by an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Application Assessment Panel.
The applicant must address the following assessment criteria in their application. The Assessment Panel will assess the application based on the weighting given to each criterion. The amount of detail and supporting evidence provided in the application should be relative to the project size, complexity and grant amount requested. The application form includes word limits. The application must comply with the maximum word limits where they are indicated and text beyond the indicated word limit will not be considered. Assessment criteria are the criteria against which all eligible, compliant applications will be assessed in order to determine their merits against the program objectives. Please click the link below to sign in to the grants portal and see the assement criteria for each steram.
Joint (consortia) applications
Cancer Australia recognises that some organisations may want to join together as a group to deliver a grant project. In these circumstances, the applicant must appoint a ‘lead organisation’. The lead organisation of all applications must be a community organisation registered with the Australian Charities and Not-for-profits Commission (ACNC) and can demonstrate strong linkages with communit.
Only the lead organisation can submit the application form and enter into a grant agreement with the Commonwealth. The application must identify all other members of the proposed group and include a letter of support from each of the partners. If the project is an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander organisation initiative, then the lead organisation must be an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander organisation as defined in Section 4.1 Who is eligible to apply for a grant? An authorised representative of this organisation must sign the application form. Applicants can only apply for one grant per grant round as a lead organisation. Cancer Australia will sign the funding agreement with the lead organisation. The organisation which signs the funding agreement then receives the funding and assumes legal responsibility for delivering the services outlined in the schedule of the agreement.Lead organisations must
therefore be legal entities able to enter into a funding agreement.
