Age Friendly SA Grants 2023-2024
| Organisation | Location | Project title | Project description | Grant amount |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Corporation of the City of Port Augusta | Far North | Yarning Art Classes | Yarning art classes will be conducted by two Aboriginal Elders who are artists. Classes will provide an opportunity for connection and for older people to socialise while learning new skills. The free art classes for older members will be held at the centrally located Yarta Purtli Art Gallery. | $35,000 |
| Yorke Peninsula Council | Yorke and Mid North | Point Pearce Community Health and Wellbeing Program | In collaboration with Point Pearce Aboriginal Corporation and Flinders University, the program will pair educational cooking with planting sessions to promote the health and wellbeing of community through supporting empowerment and building capacity around nutrition while encouraging active community participation and intergenerational connectedness. | $6,000 |
| District Council of Loxton and Waikerie | Murray and Mallee | District Council of Loxton Waikerie Ageing Well Strategy | The Strategy will drive positive change and outcomes to assist the older community now and into the future. It is a commitment to creating an environment where opportunities and choices are in place for older people to be well supported, included and valued. | $35,000 |
| District Council of Streaky Bay | Eyre and Western | Healthy Ageing Strategy for the District Council of Streaky Bay | Development of a comprehensive strategy, acknowledging the current absence of such a framework and anticipating the ongoing expansion of the older demographic. This strategic effort aims to enhance the wellbeing and overall quality of life for older residents 50+ now and into the future. | $35,000 |
| Copper Coast Council | Yorke and Mid North | Reducing the Digital Divide | Develop, deliver and evaluate a digital inclusion program targeted at older people to be run through Council-owned facilities including libraries, community centres, halls and hubs. A mobile officer will provide outreach services and allow people to be better connected with each other and the services in their community. It will provide structured training to reduce the digital divide; outreach support to help participants connect to services such as telehealth, Centrelink, MyLocal services app; and one-on-one support for older job seekers in creating resumes, job applications, online applications, online inductions and screenings, interview preparation etc. | $55,000 |
| Adelaide Plains Council | Barossa, Light and Lower North | A Series of Seniors Moments | Codesigned for local seniors to reduce barriers to experiencing a wide range of activities and upskill in areas of interest that produce purposeful activity. Drawing from many successful social enterprise models, the project looks to connect, inspire and empower through increasing roles for volunteers, supporting senior advocacy and community leadership, delivering new intergenerational community programs for seniors, incubating ideas for further social enterprise, and increasing transferable skills to support projects bringing the community together. | $35,000 |
| Total | $201,000 |
Positive Ageing Fellowship Grants 2023-2024
| Organisation | Location | Project title | Project description | Grant amount |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Hut Community Centre Incorporated | Adelaide Hills | The Loneliness Project: A community led social connections project for men | Seeks to work alongside men 40+ with lived experience to create solutions that address loneliness and enhance social connection. Aims:
| $40,000 |
| Adelaide Botanic Gardens Foundation | Eastern Western, Northern Southern Adelaide, Adelaide Hills | Laying the Foundation: making meaningful volunteering experiences at the Botanic Gardens | A project to foster a new culture of volunteering at the Botanic Gardens. Working collaboratively with Botanic Gardens staff, this project will embed a model of volunteering that recognises and values the diversity of skills, experience, abilities and motivations of volunteers. This project seeks to make volunteering easier, more rewarding and more accessible through a review and refresh of processes, and the introduction of an online Volunteer Management System (VMS). | $32,000 |
| Berri Barmera Landcare | Murray and Mallee | The Better Home Project | The Project aims to change the way that older South Australians live, for the better using a series of workshops showcasing a live, sensory, interactive, and comparative housing model. The Project will provide the knowledge and skills to design and modify gardens to provide shade, decrease temperature, provide food and shelter, increase privacy, improve connectiveness to neighbours, trigger positive memories and become a haven for butterflies, birds and natural fragrances. | $40,000 |
| Community Centres SA Incorporated | Eastern Western Northern Southern Adelaide, Yorke and Mid North, Fleurieu and Kangaroo Island | Beyond Loss: A Community Approach to Grief and Loss | A professional development tool for group facilitators providing a structured, six-week program to support community members dealing with loss. Program guides and train-the-trainer style workshops will help facilitators curate a nurturing and supportive space within Community Centres for participants grappling with the pain of loss and grief. Program aims:
| $40,000 |
| Auspicious Arts Projects Incorporated | Yorke and Mid North | Postal Service Community Film Project | A community short film project involving senior residents of the Copper Coast region of the Yorke Peninsula, inspired by the stories and observations of small acts of community service in and around the Copper Coast post offices. Older residents will be interviewed about their memories and experiences of the rich social life and the important civic role the postal service has played with their recollections forming the narrative of the film. The residents will also create human-sized puppets to act out their stories on a digital film set based on the architecture of the old post offices. A core aim of the project is to create more spaces for community conversations, centring the voices of older people that may have less of a presence in film. | $39,400 |
| Total | $191,400 |
Grants for Seniors 2023-2024 – Projects
| Organisation | Location | Project title | Project description | Grant amount |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Crystal Brook Community Association Incorporated | Yorke and Mid North | Regional full day Tai Chi workshop | Full-day professional tai chi workshop held locally for practitioners located within 100 kilometres of Crystal Brook. | $4,000 |
| Junction Community Centre Incorporated | Western Adelaide | Grannies on the Go – Enjoying Exercise, Excursion and Entertainment | A range of physical ('Exercise'), learning ('Excursion') and social ('Entertainment') activities to support physical, mental and emotional wellbeing, extending opportunities for seniors to be involved and active in their communities. | $10,000 |
| The Big Picture Creative Incorporated | Limestone Coast | Silver Studio Art Program | A free, creative art workshop series for seniors, making space for artistic expression to forge meaningful community connections. | $6,500 |
| Barossa Village Incorporated | Barossa, Light and Lower North | For Good Mosaic – get off the couch | Bringing people together to learn how to mosaic in ongoing mosaicking classes with an indigenous artist. Participants can create a piece that will be part of a bigger work on the community couch. | $6,500 |
| Mintaro Progress Association | Yorke and Mid North | Mintaro Seniors a Connected Community | A series of targeted workshops/seminars related to diet/physical and mental wellbeing/community resilience and preparedness focussing on ageing, tackling isolation through connection and accessibility. | $4,000 |
| Waikerie Community Senior Citizens Home Inc. | Murray and Mallee | Mintaro Seniors a Connected Community | A monthly calendar of 2-4 free and low-cost activities or events per week, focussing on wellbeing and social inclusion and bringing together retirement village residents and general community members. | $6,719 |
| Woodcroft Morphett Vale Neighbourhood Centre | Southern Adelaide | Senior Social Extravaganza – a week of celebrating and valuing the contribution of seniors | A celebration of happy and healthy living at every age, encouraging people to get up, get out, and enjoy life to the fullest, making friends, maintaining connections, learning together and sharing a cup of tea. | $8,400 |
| Gawler Regional Natural Resource Centre Inc. | Northern Adelaide | Resilient Garden Education Space: Volunteer Program and Workshops | Funding of a project officer to establish a volunteer program at the Resilient Garden Education Space and a series of gardening and sustainable living workshops, including during SA’s Week of Ageing Well from 1-7 October 2024. | $10,000 |
| Chamber Music Adelaide | Eastern Southern Adelaide, Adelaide Hills | Chamber in the Community | Five free high-quality chamber music concerts in community settings across council areas during SA’s Week of Ageing Well from 1-7 October 2024. Older audiences will be able to experience world class, intimate and magical moments of music making, chat with performers and each other, learn about and gain joy from beautiful musical works. | $10,000 |
| Russian Women’s Association of SA Incorporated | Eastern Western Northern Southern Adelaide, Adelaide Hills | Book Club for CALD Elders | Establishment of a book club for Russian-speaking people aged over 65 who will receive a book to read, followed by monthly discussion gatherings. The goal is to select Australian writers, especially women of migrant heritage, with books translated into Russian, catering to older members who may not speak English fluently. The primary objective is to provide meaningful and educational activities to reduce anxiety and enhance the mental wellbeing of Russian speaking seniors. | $6,790 |
| Community Housing Limited | Western Northern Adelaide | Engage, Connect and Celebrate (EC&C) | Community Housing Limited and the Tenants Advisory Group will deliver 3 high-quality music events at the Heritage Court facility that targets people aged 55 years and older on a disability or aged pension. Two outdoor cinema events will also be delivered, 1 at Oakden and 1 at Enfield, public parks located near many more mature tenants. | $10,000 |
| Malex Care Incorporated | Northern Adelaide | Project intergenerational and intercultural | Preservation of Cambodian traditions through preparation of Cambodian traditional foods and/or desserts, and Cambodian folk dancing. Knowledge transfer will be both intergenerational and across the wider South Australian community. | $9,700 |
| The Mount Remarkable Agricultural Society | Yorke and Mid North | Sharing Their Stories | Collection of stories, photographs and recipes for publication of a book to be launched at the 100th Melrose Show on Saturday, 5 October 2024. The aim is to connect seniors with others across the generations and potentially reconnect them with former regional residents. Once recognised as the event of the year in the mid-north, the Melrose Show brought joy and purpose to many, and older people will be able to relive this era through sharing their memories and telling of their stories. | $7,000 |
| Adelaide Tamil Association Incorporated | Eastern Western Northern Southern Adelaide, Adelaide Hills | Cherish Wisdom: Supporting Tamil Elders – Unity, Respect, and Care for our Beloved Community | A project of diverse activities catering to physical, social and emotional wellbeing, enhance quality of life and foster a sense of community engagement in Tamil community elders. | $10,000 |
| Tea Tree Gully Gymsports Inc. | Northern Adelaide | Fitter for Life Program | One-hour classes run by an accredited coach, to improve balance, stretching and flexibility and tailored to each person’s level of independence. Movements can be performed either standing or sitting in chairs and some use small apparatus such as balls. Daily classes will be offered during SA’s Week of Ageing Well, October 1-7, 2024. | $4,400 |
| Total | $114,009 |
Grants for Seniors 2023-2024 – Goods
| Organisation | Location | Description | Grant amount |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ukelaide | Eastern Western Northern Southern Adelaide, Adelaide Hills, Barossa, Light and Lower North, Eyre and Western, Yorke and Mid North, Far North, Fleurieu and Kangaroo Island, Limestone Coast, Murray and Mallee | Ukulele communities are science-backed strumming: A sound grant investment will deliver the goods for Seniors. | $5,000 |
| SYP Community Hub | Yorke and Mid North | Dementia memory support and reminiscence items for Memory Lane Cafe Program. | $5,000 |
| Wilmington Progress Society Incorporated | Yorke and Mid North | Commercial treadmill. | $5,000 |
| Tea Tree Gully Croquet Club | Eastern Northern Adelaide | Improving the safety of grounds and club room maintenance for volunteers. | $5,000 |
| Armfield Slip and Boatshed | Southern Adelaide, Fleurieu and Kangaroo Island | Goods to support activities for seniors in an inclusive and safe environment. | $4,702 |
| Mallala and Districts Men’s Shed Incorporated | Barossa, Light and Lower North | Dust extractor system and piping. | $5,000 |
| Murray Bridge Croquet Association Incorporated | Murray and Mallee | Age friendly equipment. | $4,980 |
| Ink Pot Arts Incorporated | Adelaide Hills | Singing for Fun in the Adelaide Hills. | $1,820 |
| Mount Torrens & Districts Community Association | Adelaide Hills | Gardening equipment. | $4,970 |
| Inner Wheel District A70 | Eastern Western Northern Southern Adelaide, Adelaide Hills, Barossa, Light and Lower North, Yorke and Mid North, Murray and Mallee | Inner Wheel centenary celebrations and membership drive. | $1,499 |
| Adelaide Repertory Theatre | Eastern Adelaide | Hearing loop system for the Arts Theatre. | $5,000 |
| Mintaro Bowling Club Incorporated | Yorke and Mid North | Wellbeing exercise equipment. | $4,700 |
| Clayton Bay Community Association Incorporated | Fleurieu and Kangaroo Island | Community garden for health and wellbeing. | $5,000 |
| Tintinara Bowling Club Incorporated | Limestone Coast, Murray and Mallee | Public address system and non-slip mats. | $4,900 |
| Aldinga Bay Surf Lifesaving Club Incorporated | Southern Adelaide | Equipment and education for local seniors program – Silver Salties. | $4,215 |
| Waikerie Community Senior Citizens Home Incorporated | Murray and Mallee | Lifestyle and Wellbeing for Seniors – goods. | $2,000 |
| Port Lincoln Singers Incorporated | Eyre and Western | Electronic goods and associated materials to improve choral presentations. | $1,400 |
| SportsUnited Limited | Eastern Northern Southern Barossa, Light and Lower North | Sporting Memories Australia equipment grant. | $1,400 |
| Community Centres SA Incorporated | Eastern Western Northern Southern Adelaide, Adelaide Hills | Coffee Connections: Social Gatherings for Seniors. | $5,000 |
| Sturt Bowling Club Incorporated | Eastern Adelaide | Supporting women in sport at Sturt Bowling Club. | $4,865 |
| Malex Care Incorporated | Northern Adelaide | Stronger together. | $1,130 |
| Wilmington Bowling Club Incorporated | Yorke and Mid North | Bowling club aids for seniors. | $2,000 |
| Clare Bowling Club Incorporated | Yorke and Mid North | Kitchen equipment. | $2,026 |
| Semaphore Surf Lifesaving Club Incorporated | Western Adelaide | Expansion of Silver Salties program for the 60+. | $5,000 |
| Crystal Brook Community Association | Yorke and Mid North | New croquet club mower and small shed. | $3,000 |
| Total | $94,607 |
Impact Research Grants for Ageing Well 2023-2024
| Organisations | Project title | Project description | Grant amount |
|---|---|---|---|
| Flinders University and Torrens University | Positive ageing and social inclusion for older migrants from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds | Explore how alternative approaches to ageing help safeguard rights and encourage social inclusion. Information will be gathered through focus groups with older migrants and refugees from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds, service provider interviews and case study reviews. | $100,000 |
| Flinders University | Codesigning a conceptual model for a residential aged care facility for prisoners | Codesign an aged care facility for prisoners, integrating Cert-3 Aged Care and work release opportunities. Map services, infrastructure, and innovation at South Australia’s Yatala Labour Prison. | $25,000 |
| Flinders University | New Tools for Tackling Ageism | Coproduce and assess the effectiveness of a series of educational videos for community programs and campaigns to reduce ageism. | $25,000 |
| Total | $150,000 |