Grant recipients

Recipient: COTA Tasmania

• Project: Ageing My Way
• Approved Funding: $4,147.09

"Ageing My Way" empowers older people to share their preferences and desires for how they would like to age, using captioned photographs of themselves in their homes and communities. By encouraging older people to voice and visualise their preferences, "Ageing My Way" respects their right to self-determination as they age, ensuring their interests are captured and shared as a form of elder-abuse prevention. Importantly, "Ageing My Way" will raise awareness among older people and family members of the obligations of those nominated in documents such as Enduring Power of Attorney and Enduring Guardianship.

Recipient: Salvation Army Housing Common Ground

• Project: Common Ground Cafe
• Approved Funding: $4,798.00

Common Ground provides supportive housing, delivered in a secure, socially mixed environment to end chronic homelessness. Even better than the vision, are the outcomes; Common Ground is succeeding every month at helping people get back on their feet and re-settling (independently and sustainably) back into the community. The Common Ground Café is a new social enterprise concept to be located at the Campbell Street Common Ground facility in Hobart’s CBD. The initiative will aim to provide training, employment, social inclusion and support for people who are disadvantaged including the tenants at Common Ground, while also creating a sustainable revenue stream.

Recipient: 'Just Desserts' Drug Court Incentives Group

• Project: Community support for drug court rewards and incentives
• Approved Funding: $3,500.00

'Just Desserts' represents a number of community organisations and provides support for rewards and incentives granted as part of the Court Mandated Diversion (Drug Court) program. The program aims to reduce illicit drug use and associated crime. Donations from this group are used to provide small tangible rewards which are presented by Magistrates to program participants who achieve significant milestones and eventually graduate from the two year program. Rewards recognise positive achievements that help participants to reduce their drug use and offending behaviour, contributing to community safety. Worldwide evidence has shown this therapeutic approach to be effective in reducing crime.

Recipient: Department of Education - Elizabeth College

• Project: Elizabeth College Resilience and Wellbeing Project
• Approved Funding: $5,000.00

Elizabeth College aims to increase the awareness and understanding of issues that affect our wellbeing and resilience, and to promote strategies to improve them. The Resilience Project will be engaged to help us achieve these goals, and will run seminars for students, primary and high school teachers, parents and the wider community. They will also provide curriculum resources to support a wellbeing program within the College. This project is about attitudes, knowledge, and strategies to promote wellbeing and we want to help them spread. It directly supports Council's 2014-2019 Youth Strategy and its Strategic Plan.

Recipient: The Welcome Dinner Project Tasmania

• Project: Hobart Welcome Campaign 2019
• Approved Funding: $4,364.00

The Hobart Welcome Campaign will increase community belonging by connecting newly arrived Australians with established Hobartians over shared meals in local homes through our Home Welcome Dinners. Engagement with Newtown Primary School and a local author will support cross-cultural learning opportunities to explore the stories of refugees and migrants and embrace diversity in our communities. We will share the stories and successes of a diverse and connected community through the development of an improved evaluation framework. We will help build strong and healthy communities through diversity, participation and empathy and establish solid foundations for the Welcome Dinner Project in Hobart.

Recipient: Oh la la & co Inc

• Project: Melt in Pot
• Approved Funding: $4,605.00

Food is a great vehicle for sharing culture and heritage with people from different backgrounds. Cooking together and sharing a meal is the most communal and binding activity in almost every places in the world and this project will do just this. Six migrant communities in Hobart will prepare a meal from their countries/culture and will then open the door for people of their community to have a wonderful meal together. Through sharing food this project will provide an opportunity for multi-cultural exchange, friendship and networking between communities that rarely get the opportunity to mix together.

Recipient: New Town High School School Association

• Project: Scoping report to establish a Sustainability Shed, Community Garden and old scholars network.
• Approved Funding: $3,000

Students and staff at New Town High School have identified two projects of value to the school and community - a Sustainability Shed and a Community Garden. This project will plan these activities and establish an Old Scholars network to bring them to fruition. In doing so, it will provide opportunities for senior men in the neighbourhood to overcome isolation by volunteering and reconnecting with their community. NTHS has an active school association, but no established Old Scholars network. The school's Centenary in 2019 provides a unique opportunity to establish an old scholars support network for these and subsequent projects.

Recipient: Hobart Harmony Chorus Inc

• Project: International Women's Day Concert 2019
• Approved Funding: $1,000

Hobart Harmony will present "HAND in HAND - a Concert to celebrate International Women's Day". This once a year concert event will showcase female performers of all ages and from all genres of music from the Hobart area.

View the list of Round 1 2018 recipients. 

View the list of 2017 recipients. 

Recipient: The Australian Ceramics Association

• Project: Holding Place: Fire Sculpture
• Approved Funding: $14,985.00

On the evening of the 3rd May, 2019, a team of dedicated ceramic artists, led by renowned master kiln builder, Andres Allik, will open the petals of a giant custom-built kiln. An audience of conference delegates and members of the general public, gathered in the PW1 forecourt, will watch in awe as the 3m tall ceramic sculpture enclosed therein is revealed, glowing red hot against the night sky, rapidly cooling from the 1300 degrees it has taken three days of firing to achieve. The sculpture, once cooled will be a lasting monument to the shared labours of many community members.

Recipient: Wide Angle Tasmania Inc.

• Project: South Hobart Cinema
• Approved Funding: $15,000.00

Nurturing creativity, empowerment and connectedness among Hobart youth through Hip Hop and beatmaking workshopsSouth Hobart Cinema is a programme of free film screenings presented monthly at Tasmania’s Centre for Screen at 6 Washington Street, South Hobart. During 2019, audience members will be invited to become screen creators by entering the ‘Screen Confessions’ booth to record a micro story. During 2019, 30 feature length screenings will be delivered. The programme will be curated for and marketed to four distinct audiences; 

SilverScreen (weekday afternoon screenings for over 50s),  iGen@Cinema (weekday morning screenings for pre-schoolers and their carers),  iGen Holidays (evening screenings during school holidays for school aged teens), and General audience (evening screenings for local audiences).

Recipient: The University of Melbourne

• Project: Nurturing creativity, empowerment and connectedness among Hobart youth through Hip Hop and beatmaking workshops
• Approved Funding: $10,000

Globally, Hip-Hop and beatmaking are increasingly being used to promote individual and community wellbeing. Through this project, beatmakers Dr Crooke (PhD, Music Therapy) and Dr Gann (PhD, Psychotherapy) will visit Hobart, and partner with local organization, Kickstart Arts, in facilitating beatmaking workshops to empower, connect and engage youth in creative process and generate musical outputs. The team will bring facilitation expertise in beatmaking, and in-depth knowledge of how musical participation leads to community wellbeing outcomes. By also engaging and mentoring local practitioners, the project will not only afford immediate youth outcomes, but also build community capacity for future work.

Recipient: Julie Waddington

• Project: MENTAL - The Mother Load STAGE TWO
• Approved Funding: $10,000

A creative documentary performance exploring the beauty, grotesque and poetic in the madness and mundane of motherhood. Building on results of their seed creative development in 2018, Artist Mothers -Julie Waddington, Bryony Geeves, Mel King, Carrie McLean and Rebecca Thomson will collaborate and research the experience of mental load through a series of creative writing / storytelling workshops, interviews and online interaction with mothers. Verbatim material generated during the research phase will be explored in an intensive period of creative development, alongside puppetry, film and physical theatre towards the first draft of a new performance work.

Recipient: Chinese Contemporary Art Tasmania Inc.

• Project: Exhibition -Tasmanian Artists Responding to Chinese Oriental Culture
• Approved Funding: $10,000 

An exhibition hosted as an annual collaboration with Asian contemporary art and the Hobart City Council’s Lunar New Year Festival. We will invite Hobart based artists to explore and research Chinese cultural links to produce Contemporary artwork reflecting the theme. Our project will include established and emerging artists from Eastern and Western backgrounds and will present works in a range of disciplines including new media, installation, photography and painting. Our Hobart Lunar New Year festival exhibition will be held at Brooke St Pier, hosting workshops, artist talks and significant internet presence through key Asian project partners.

View the list of Round 1 2018 recipients.

Vie the list of 2017 recipients.

Recipient: Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery

• Project: TMAG Children's Festival
• Approved Funding: $19,965.00

The TMAG Children's Festival is Tasmania's premier stand-alone free Festival for children. In 2018 one in every four 0 - 9-year-olds living in Greater Hobart attended the Festival. Held in the April school holidays on TMAG's iconic waterfront site, the 2019 Festival themed EarthTime! will create unique opportunities for children and families to engage with hands-on participatory experiences in a vibrant, learning environment. Engaging a diverse range of community partners dedicated to child development, the Festival is distinct for its focus on active child participation where children "take over" TMAG and exterior spaces for the duration of the Festival period.

Recipient: The Welcome Dinner Project Tasmania

• Project: City of Hobart Inaugural Community Welcome Dinner 2019
• Approved Funding: $9,160.00

The Inaugural City of Hobart Community Welcome Dinner 2019 will showcase Hobart as a welcoming and inclusive city. A celebration of our diverse community, the dinner will be held in the Town Hall during Harmony Week, delivered by the Welcome Dinner Project (WDP) Tasmania, to bring newly arrived and established Hobartians together. The Dinner builds greater community connections for the residents of Hobart and promotes understanding across the diverse cultural groups of our city. WDP Tasmania hope that this inaugural dinner will lay the foundation for a yearly City of Hobart Community Welcome Dinner to bring and connect people together.