Supporting people with cancer

(formerly Building Cancer Support Networks initiative)

Cancer Australia’s Supporting people with cancer Grant initiative will continue to improve the coordination, accessibility and development of quality cancer support networks to better support people affected by cancer. An organisation partnering with community, with a focus on local community needs, ensures relevance and responsiveness of the grant initiative.

Since 2005, the Australian Government, through Cancer Australia, has provided $4.4 million towards 67 grants nation-wide with the aim of reducing the impact of cancer, improving access to quality information and providing support for people affected by cancer. The next grant round for the initiative will open in early 2012.

Aims and Outcomes

The grant initiative aims to reduce the burden of cancer through the provision of grants to community organisations and encourage effective partnerships between organisations in order to:

improve the coordination, accessibility and development of quality cancer support networks
better support people affected by cancer
focus on local community needs
develop innovative approaches to support options
initiate visible partnerships and linkages to services which will foster appropriate referral to information and support.

Grant Round priorities

Cancer Australia’s priority target groups for the 2012 grants will be:

rural and remote communities
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities
culturally and linguistically diverse communities
people whose outcomes are poorer.

The call for applications for the Supporting people with cancer Grant initiative opened on 14 February 2012 and will close at 2pm (AEDST) 10 April 2012. Q&A closed on 20 March 2012.

View the Supporting people with cancer application documents:

The following links provide more information about:

Previous rounds of the Building Cancer Support Networks Initiative

Four earlier rounds of funding were undertaken for the Building Cancer Support Networks Initiative (BCSN) in 2005, 2006 2007 and 2009. In the fourth round, Cancer Australia partnered with the following organisations: Breast Cancer Network of Australia, Cancer Council New South Wales, Cancer Council Northern Territory, Cancer Council Queensland, Cancer Council South Australia, Cancer Council Tasmania, Cancer Council Victoria, Cancer Council Western Australia, Cancer Voices Australia, Federation of Ethnic Communities Councils of Australia, National Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisation, National Centre for Gynaecological Cancers, Ovarian Cancer Australia and Prostate Cancer Foundation of Australia.

A full list of the projects funded under each round of the Building Cancer Support Networks grants program can be accessed by clicking on the links below.

The following links provide information about: