The Communities Innovation Fund provides a competitive grants program to support flexible person-centred and place-based responses to social isolation and loneliness in Queensland communities.

The grant program provides up to $200,000 per year to community organisations for innovative projects that create meaningful connections for Queenslanders experiencing social isolation and loneliness.

The 2026 round of the grant program invites eligible organisations to submit proposals specifically targeting the unique challenges of social isolation and loneliness faced by:

• young Queenslanders aged 12 to 25
• young people 12 to 25 using or experiencing domestic, family and sexual violence (DFSV), and
• victim-survivors of DFSV of all ages.

Initiatives may also contribute to the grant program's secondary objectives, which include to:

• increase community understanding of social isolation and loneliness including the causes, impacts, barriers and enablers to overcoming social isolation and loneliness
• establish and maintain social and community connections and promote inclusion
• support capacity building within organisations to respond to those experiencing social isolation and loneliness from within the relevant cohorts.

To be eligible to apply for the grant program, your organisation-or auspicing organisation-must be incorporated and can be:

• a not-for-profit organisation
• a company limited by guarantee
• a cooperative
• an incorporated association
• a university or research organisation
• a Local Government
• an unincorporated community or user-led group or organisation that is auspiced by an eligible entity
• a profit-for-purpose company.

• Email: grantqueries@families.qld.gov.au