Applications close: 5pm Tuesday 18th August 2026
Funding: up to $20,000
The program gives small remote, rural and regional communities across Australia the opportunity to fund projects with a clear focus on mental health, social/ emotional health and wellbeing.
The In a Good Place program gives small remote, rural and regional communities across Australia, particularly farming communities, the opportunity to access funds for a broad range of community-driven projects, services, activities or initiatives, which clearly and directly focus on strengthening mental health, social / emotional health and wellbeing. The program supports community-based approaches that:
- Are preventative or responsive in nature;
- Focus on reducing mental health stigma and promote open discussions about mental health;
- Encourage, support and enable people to seek help; and
- Reduce social isolation by fostering social participation, inclusion and connection.
There are now two streams within the program:
- Community wellbeing for projects focussing on mental health and wellbeing within remote, rural, and regional communities;
- Farmers and farming communities for projects specifically supporting the mental health and wellbeing of farmers and the communities they live in.
The program is open to charitable projects that use non-clinical approaches to engage people, are community-based and easy to access.
For more information and to apply.
In a Good Place is a national grants program, with a preference to support projects serving communities with populations under 10,000 in very remote, remote and rural and communities.
Applications from regional centres (over 10,000) will also be considered if the project can demonstrate it supports people from surrounding smaller communities.
To be eligible, you must meet the following criteria:
- Applicant organisations must be a not-for-profit organisation with an ABN or Incorporation Certificate. If you are unsure if your organisation is a registered not-for-profit (e.g. if you are a Co-operative, Other Unincorporated Entity, Public Company or Trust), please contact FRRR on 1800 170 020;
- Project must be for charitable purposes and offer clear public benefit;
- Not-for-profit organisations with or without DGR-1 endorsement are eligible;
- Organisations can only submit one application per grant round;
- Projects must benefit communities in remote, rural or regional Australia.
