The NSW End of Life and Palliative Care Grant Program for non-government organisations (NGOs) is delivering community initiatives to enhance community capacity to engage with death, dying, grief and end of life planning
In 2024, a robust, merit-based assessment process was undertaken to award grants in-line with key objectives and achieve overarching aims of the End of Life and Palliative Care (EOLPC) NGO Grant Program.
Note: Grants required to align with one or more.
During the first round of the program, over $3.5 million over 4 years (FY2023-24 to FY2026-27) was awarded to 6 organisations from across the end of life and palliative care sector, including a total of $1.3 million to 2 Aboriginal Community Controlled Health organisations (ACCHOs).
Following the robust, open-competitive process undertaken during the first round of the program, a closed, non-competitive grant opportunity was conducted in 2025, to allocate available additional funding to eligible applicants that were not funded through the first round of the program.
Approximately $680,000 over 2 years (FY2025-26 to FY2026-27) was awarded to 3 additional organisations to deliver community initiatives and support to multicultural communities and bereaved parents and caregivers.
Deliver a series of 'Death Dinners' across NSW, online legal workshops to increase community knowledge of ACP and bereavement workshops in partnership with other organisations.
Development of place-based culturally safe education and promotional materials to increase community knowledge, understanding and death/ grief literacy. To also provide practical supports such as funeral assistance, and support to navigate legal systems and traditional ceremonies and practices.
Delivery a series of 12 radio segments using a range of voices and perspectives to increase death and grief literacy, explain and promote ACP and link families and carers to support services.
Delivery of Community Conversations programs across NSW to diverse audience, building community and business understanding and capacity to have conversations about what matters most. The PalliLEARN is a structured course-based program covering 9 topics around death, dying and grieving.
Increase palliative care, ACP, death and grief literacy for PWID and people supporting those with intellectual disability, through resources and training for health professionals.
Increase death and grief literacy by improving awareness through education initiatives relevant to Aboriginal people in the Shoalhaven, including ACP, specialist supports for bereavement and loss and culturally informed and accessible information packages.
Creation of targeted grief and death literacy sessions to challenge misconceptions about palliative care and end of life planning, within the Arabic-speaking community. This includes development of translated Arabic resources and training for bilingual volunteers, carers and families
Creation of grief and bereavement resources and capacity building activities targeting Macedonian and former Yugoslav communities in Sydney and Wollongong areas.
Ladybird Care Foundation operates a unique Peer Mentor Program to support bereaved parents or carers whose child, of any age, has died. This program has been launched in Queensland and Victoria and they are now seeking to expand their reach within NSW.
For further information and future grant opportunities, please refer to the NSW Government Grants and Funding Finder.
