In A Good Place

Supporting mental health in rural communities
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:

Focuses on strengthening mental health and wellbeing of vulnerable community members in small remote, rural and regional communities across Australia.

• 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.
• NOTE: Farming communities refers to remote, rural, and regional communities with a high dependency on agriculture and related industries.

Applicant organisations must be a not-for-profit organisation with either an Incorporation Certificate and/or an ABN.

Projects must be in a remote, rural or regional area.

How to apply

Please read the information on each of the three tabs below to make sure this is the right grant for your project.

If you want to explore other grant options, please go to Find Funding Now.

1. Program Guidelines
Confirm you are eligible to apply for this grant
To make sure this is the right grant for your community, please read the grant information detailed in the Program Guidelines below carefully. Click on each headline to reveal the detail. If you need to share this information with others, you can download the guidelines below.

2. Prepare Your Application
Gather information to support your grant application
Please read the information below to support the planning and preparation of your project. It also sets out what you MUST include for your project to be considered. There are plenty of helpful resources to support you along the way.

Please contact FRRR if you have any questions about the following information.

3. Apply Now
FRRR has moved to a new online granting system called Blackbaud Grants Portal. All applications must be submitted via this system.

Please contact FRRR if you have questions about any aspect of the Blackbaud Grants Portal online application system.

Round 11 of In a Good Place is now open and closes 5pm AEDT 19 February, 2026.