Tasmanian Community Food Relief Grants Program 2025

Overview

The Tasmanian Government has provided $1 million to retain all increased emergency food relief funding for a further year while a new whole-of-government Strategy is developed to continue the significant shift from food relief to food resilience in our State.

The Tasmanian Community Food Relief Grants Program 2025's purpose is to fund not-for-profit Tasmanian community organisations that currently provide food relief directly to members of their local community, to increase the provision of direct food relief for people in need.

Funding is primarily for food relief, including ready-to-eat meals and/or food hampers.

Ready-to-Eat Meals

For ready-to-eat meals, funding may be provided for the:

• Purchase of ingredients and packaging to prepare ready-to-eat meals.
• Costs of delivery of pre-packaged meals.
• Purchase of additional storage items such as freezers or shelving to enable the organisation to provide food relief.

Ready-to-eat meals must be prepared in accordance with food safety standards and Australian Dietary guidelines.

Ready-to-eat meals can be either served on-site or pre-packaged.

Food Hampers

For food hampers, funding may be provided for the:

• Purchase of food staples such as fresh fruit and vegetables, pasta, rice, cereal, flour, butter, milk, and including food for those with cultural, medical, or dietary needs (excluding alcohol).
• Costs of delivery of food hampers.

Low-cost or free food hampers can be either served on-site or pre-packaged.

Funding Available

Organisations applied for up to $10,000 with a limit of one application per organisation, with a total funding pool of $500,000.

Funding will be non-recurrent, meaning that this is ‘one-off’, and will not continue in future years.

Funding will be distributed to organisations from late April 2025, with projects expected to be completed by 30 September 2025.