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Disability Advocacy Support Program: Service Delivery

Disability Advocacy Support Program: Service Delivery

  • Total program funding available: $184.0 million over 6 years.
  • Competitive grant opportunity that will fund organisations to provide individual disability advocacy support to people with disability, their families, carers and kin in defined service areas across Australia
  • Expected activity timing: earliest start around November 2026, with end dates of 30 June 2029 or 30 June 2032 depending on the grant term offered
  • Applications close: July 16 2026

 

Disability Advocacy Support Program: Service Delivery is a federal open competitive grant opportunity that will fund organisations to provide individual disability advocacy support to people with disability, their families, carers and kin in defined service areas across Australia. Services are expected to be delivered predominantly in person, either from an organisation’s premises or in community settings where appropriate.

The opportunity sits within a 6 year national program and is intended to improve access to timely, skilled and culturally responsive advocacy, especially for people experiencing significant exclusion or risk of harm. Applicants must demonstrate strong capability to deliver outcomes focused advocacy services, collect and report data, collaborate with referral and safeguarding ecosystems, and maintain the systems and compliance settings required under the program. Grants may be offered for 3 years or 6 years, with longer term funding intended for applicants showing stronger capability and broader coverage.

Key Requirements

  • Deliver individual disability advocacy services: Funded activities must provide individual disability advocacy support to people with disability, their families, carers and kin in defined service areas across Australia. Services are expected to be delivered predominantly in person where possible and appropriate.
  • Align with core program objectives: The program aims to ensure people with disability, especially those at most risk of harm, are empowered to exercise their rights, make their own choices and access the supports and services they need to participate in the community.
  • Address all three primary advocacy areas: Funded organisations are expected to direct activities equally across the three primary areas of support, being advocacy linked to the seven outcome areas of Australia’s Disability Strategy, advocacy supporting better outcomes from NDIS service providers, and advocacy helping people access broader services and protections that support wellbeing and participation.
  • Prioritise people at higher risk of exclusion or harm: Activities must prioritise or target people experiencing significant exclusion or who are at higher risk of violence, abuse, neglect or exploitation. This includes people in closed or segregated settings, people with high and complex support needs, and people facing intersecting discrimination.
  • Demonstrate organisational capability and compliance: Applicants must show experience, capability, governance, data collection capacity, stakeholder collaboration, and compliance with relevant child safety, gender equality, disability services and redress requirements.
  • Provide value with relevant money: Applications are assessed on alignment, capability and cost effectiveness, including whether the proposal uses public funds efficiently, effectively, economically and ethically

 

What is eligible for funding?

  • Delivering individual disability advocacy supports to people with disability, their families, carers and kin.
  • Providing predominantly in person advocacy services from business premises and community settings.
  • Tailoring services to defined service areas and local needs, including outreach to isolated people with disability.
  • Delivering services through other means where in person support is not necessary or appropriate.
  • Delivering systemic advocacy to key local stakeholders and other levels of government within the permitted expenditure limits.
  • Building partnerships, referral pathways and collaboration with relevant organisations across the rights and safeguarding ecosystem.
  • Collecting and reporting data and information on participant experiences to support monitoring and evaluation.
  • Spending on eligible delivery costs such as wages, direct administration, short term specialist support, facility hire, insurance, IT, domestic travel, vehicle leases, Auslan services, evaluation and other directly attributable delivery costs.

What companies are eligible for funding?

  • Aboriginal and or Torres Strait Islander Corporation registered under the Corporations Aboriginal and or Torres Strait Islander Act 2006.
  • Company
  • Incorporated Association.
  • Trustee applying on behalf of a trust, where the trustee is an eligible entity type.
  • Consortium or network applications, where the lead organisation is an eligible entity and all proposed members also meet the stated eligibility requirements.

Additional eligibility considerations

  • Applicants must be not for profit organisations established for community service purposes.
  • Applicants must be registered with the ACNC.
  • Applicants must provide evidence of a stated mission to advance the rights of people with disability
  • Applicants must hold a current Certificate of Compliance against the National Standards for Disability Services, or state an intention to seek a determination to obtain one by a specified date.
  • Applicants must comply with the National Redress Scheme Grant Connected Policy.
  • Applicant organisations and key personnel must not be subject to a banning order under the NDIS Act.

Is this grant competitive or entitlement based?

Competitive. Your application will be assessed among other applications by a judging panel.

How can I increase my chances of winning this grant?

By engaging an accredited government grants consultant, such as Avant Group.

Competitive grants often require significant business case development and project analysis to support the application, this may include detailed presentations supporting the project’s merit, projected sales, cost-benefit analysis and more.

As part of your engagement with Avant Group, your account manager will assess the required documents and will provide the following as needed to support your grant submission.

Grant application writeup including a detailed presentation illustrating how the grant funding will contribute to your project, how the funding will contribute to the project’s budget, a project milestone plan, delivery timeline, impact on employment if applicable and a breakdown of the management and leadership team for the project

  • Industry analysis presentation
  • Competitor Analysis Presentation
  • Marketing and Sales Analysis Presentation
  • 3-5 year Cashflow Forecast
  • 3-5 year Balance Sheet Forecast
  • Cost-Benefit Analysis of Grant Funding
  • End-to-end grant application including information collating, analysis and application writing
  • CAPEX (Capital Expenditure) cost-benefit analysis
  • Stakeholder relations and Risk Mitigation Plans
  • Any other relevant forecasting that will support your application

How can I get help with my application? Or know if I’m likely to win funding?

Avant Group offers a no-obligation assessment of your eligibility for funding and will assess your likelihood of a successful grant application.