VicHealth’s JumpStart! is teaming up with these 123 community organisations to create a healthier future for young people.
Recipients are listed alphabetically by location. Click an organisation's name to be taken to their webpage (where applicable).
Organisation |
Program |
Location |
Learn to sail with your mum, grandma or aunty |
Albert Park |
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Come and Try day to establish girls football academy |
Albert Park |
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Unsorted – Theatre for young people celebrating identity and belonging |
Albert Park |
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Badminton Abilities Junior |
Albert Park |
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Next Gen Sailing |
Albert Park |
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Newport Calisthenics Tots |
Altona |
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The Roots Project: (People, Culture and food) |
Bass |
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the Y & Gippsport bring Fitness & Fun to Fridays |
Bass |
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We Eat Together: A food club |
Bayswater |
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Surf Therapy for Youth Mental health |
Bellarine |
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Live Well Bellarine – Active OUR WAY! |
Bellarine |
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The Neighbourhood Kids Club |
Bendigo East |
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Let’s Go Orienteering – Regional Engagement Initiative |
Bendigo West |
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Moving Feast Project |
Bendigo West |
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Food initiatives that breakdown barriers & connect to culture |
Bendigo West |
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Project Reconnect |
Bendigo West |
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Multicultural swimming and water safety lessons for children at Golden Square Po |
Bendigo West |
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All Abilities Cricket Program |
Bentleigh |
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All-Inclusive, All-Abilities Pottery Classes for Children and Young Adults |
Brighton |
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Coach Development Training, Equipment Shed & equipment renewal |
Brighton |
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Accessible and inclusive art for wellbeing studio |
Brunswick |
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Brunswick Lacrosse Mini Mavericks Primary School Program (Mini Mavs Schools) |
Brunswick |
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Community engagement with under 25's |
Buninyong |
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Meredith's Mini Masterchefs |
Buninyong |
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Paddling Pals |
Caulfield |
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Cooking to Connect |
Caulfield |
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Youth Boxing |
Caulfield |
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Food Security and Vibrant Communities: Schools’ Engagement Program |
Clarinda |
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Social connections for vulnerable children through cultural food, arts and play. |
Clarinda |
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Eat well. Play well Program. |
Cranbourne |
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Kiai Spirit - Martial Arts Programs for Kidz |
Croydon |
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Club Equipment Renewal and Upgrade Project |
Dandenong |
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Lyndale 5-a-side Summer Football Cup |
Dandenong |
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Dandenong New Art – Art Decks |
Dandenong |
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A taste of culture |
Eildon |
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Growing Greenhills - engaging young people at Greenhills Neighbourhood House |
Eltham |
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Let's Rebound Together - By Dissolving Barriers To Sport & Physical Activity |
Eltham |
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Youth in Basketball Program |
Eltham |
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Craft with Your Crew: YellowCraft School Term Program |
Essendon |
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Pigeons Projects Limited |
Story-making programs to foster connection and creativity in young people |
Footscray |
L2R's Annual Free Hip Hop Dance Program |
Footscray |
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Bridging food culture |
Frankston |
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Strong Women Documentary |
Parent and Daughter Multi Sport Come & Try events |
Frankston |
Extending the Club’s indigenous inclusion and recognition program. |
Geelong |
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Geelong Gallery Mural Project: connecting young people through the visual arts |
Geelong |
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Geelong Regional Football (Soccer) Committee (GRFC) (FV Geelong) |
Reactivating, growing and adding thousands of physical, active opportunities |
Geelong |
Young Yoowinna Wurnalung (our safe place in Gunaikurnai language) |
Gippsland East |
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All Abilities Sailing boats for our club |
Gippsland East |
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Healthy Living Project |
Gippsland South |
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Fund set up costs for U16 Girls team to maximise recruitment of junior girls |
Kew |
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UBUNTU in Cooking: Cultural Learnings through Food (“the Project”) |
Keysborough |
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Necessary equipment and a horse to run our Riding for Disabled Program |
Kororoit |
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Shuttle time Program |
Kororoit |
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Enable young Geelong immigrants to participate in badminton |
Lara |
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Wathaurong Community Engagement: Youth & Culture Project |
Lara |
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Youth Leading Culture |
Lara |
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Diversitat Futsal & Netball Academy [DFNA] |
Lara |
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Creative and Alive in West Wimmera |
Lowan |
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x10 Shortz weekends away for children with disability with volunteer Buddies |
Macedon |
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Reigniting a vision for inclusion of young people through recreation and arts. |
Malvern |
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RMIT University |
The Children’s Sensorium – Exhibition for Children’s Resilience and Wellbeing |
Melbourne |
Kicknic |
Melbourne |
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Green Time |
Melbourne |
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African Australian Youth Engagement Project |
Melbourne |
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Light the way – Projection art and play to improve cancer treatment outcomes |
Melbourne |
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Playing to Recover |
Melbourne |
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The Passion Project |
Melbourne |
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Activate Inclusion Sports Days |
Melbourne |
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Mini Wheelers: Building life skills for the next generation of bike riders |
Melbourne |
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United Through Football Inc. |
Let's active and connected |
Melbourne |
Royal Children’s Hospital Mental Health - Festival for Healthy Living |
Deadly Dreamin’ – an Aboriginal-led, arts-based wellbeing and healing program. |
Melton |
Ready, Set & Move in the Mallee |
Mildura |
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Engaging Young Mums & Bubs |
Mildura |
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After school sports, active recreation and cooking in the East End Community. |
Mildura |
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Monash Youth Community Flavours |
Mount Waverley |
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Active Communities Active Youth |
Mount Waverley |
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Let’s Move! |
Murray Plains |
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City of Casey, Feast of Nations - Multicultural Cuisine Program |
Narre Warren North |
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Al Itqan's Mindfulness Youth Retreat. |
Narre Warren North |
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Dreamhouse Theatre Company inc. |
Dreamhouse TC weekly theatre skills workshops and annual theatre production. |
Nepean |
Seeding Identity |
Northcote |
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Diversity and Inclusion - Program Manager |
Northcote |
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Waverley Wanderers Soccer Club |
Waverley Wanderers Living Healthy Greek style |
Oakleigh |
Opening the doors for the next generation of young gymnasts with disability |
Oakleigh |
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Wangaratta Community Garden Inc. |
Learning life skills to grow edible food in a community garden plot. |
Ovens Valley |
Sharing food and culture for a Bright and healthy future. |
Ovens Valley |
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Emerging Creatives Festival |
Ovens Valley |
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Creating Social & Rec Activities for Children and Young People with Disabilities |
Pascoe Vale |
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Terang Mortlake Football Netball Club |
Facilities & equipment for the Terang Mortlake WVFFL Under 18 Female footy team |
Polwarth |
Gene Tree: Listen. Now. Again |
Prahran |
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Gymnastics Victoria Social Parkour Project |
Prahran |
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Body Confident Physical Activity: Girls Empowerment Project |
Prahran |
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Sport for everyone |
Preston |
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Hockey starter kits for young people |
Preston |
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Connections through sharing culture: youth world food gardens and kitchens |
Preston |
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Rainbow Gym - an inclusive gym program for trans & gender diverse young people |
Preston |
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Establishing a toy collection for new Fitzroy Toy Library |
Richmond |
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NRCH Food & Culture Festival |
Richmond |
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Let's Keep Cooking: Kids Clubs Yarra |
Richmond |
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The YoWo Music Mentoring Program |
Richmond |
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Culture Club - traditional cooking, cultural connection, youth led |
Richmond |
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Youth Development Program - Integrating migrant youth into our community |
Richmond |
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Fencing Fitness & Fun for Young Adults in Outer Eastern Melbourne |
Ringwood |
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Social Sports for Migrants |
Ringwood |
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Ways to Play – Active play-based workshops for families |
Ringwood |
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Little Athletics in Ararat: Increasing sporting access and impact for youth |
Ripon |
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Numurkah Toy Library Inc |
Numurkah Toy Library Active Play and Physical Development Project |
Shepparton |
Growing Cultural Connections: Indigenous Food and Healthy Connections. |
Shepparton |
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Reactivate female participation by implementing an enhanced holistic program |
South Barwon |
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Moyne Virtual Gallery (MVG) Emerging Curators Development Program |
South-West Coast |
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Corangamite youth getting active and connected in nature |
South-West Coast |
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Sunbury Aboriginal Corporation |
Return to Culture |
Sunbury |
Empowering Young People’s Wellbeing through Surf Therapy |
Sunbury |
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Kids Get Active |
Thomastown |
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Food Is Free Inc. Little Sprouts kids gardening program |
Wendouree |
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After School Active Artists |
Wendouree |
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Toys for Wyndham Little Buddies Toy Library |
Werribee |
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Wyndham’s Homecoming: a concert takeover created by youth from Melbourne’s West. |
Werribee |
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Back in the game - getting young women back into Indoor Sports |
Werribee |
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Future Coaches Scholarship Program |
Williamstown |
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To promote reengagement with and participation in a team based sport |
Williamstown |
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‘Out West’ Community Youth Theatre (CYT) Program |
Williamstown |
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Bouncing into Basketball in Mickleham & 3064 |
Yuroke |