Active State Collaboration Program - 2024-25

The Active State Collaboration Program (ASCP) directly supports the Office for Recreation Sport and Racing's (ORSR) Strategic Plan to increase involvement of people in sport and active recreation activities so that they can experience the many physical, mental and emotional health and wellbeing benefits that participation brings.

Applicants must demonstrate how their proposed projects will contribute to ORSR’s strategic priorities:

• Active Lives – Embedding movement, play, and performance into the daily lives of South Australians.
• Places and Spaces – Ensuring that places and spaces supporting movement, play, and performance are accessible to everyone.
• Strategic Partnerships – Achieving community outcomes through meaningful strategic collaborations.

The ASCP offers funding through two streams:

• Targeted stream (inactive youth)
  • The targeted stream (inactive youth) will provide funding to projects that specifically encourage inactive youth aged 12 to 15 to adopt healthy physical activity behaviours.
• Open stream (strategic)
  • The open stream (strategic) is designed to support projects that align with the broader objectives of the ORSR Strategic Plan, focused on getting more South Australians moving.

All projects must demonstrate a partnership by providing documentation that clearly shows at least one other organisation is actively contributing to the development and delivery of the project.

Time required to submit the application

This application requires multiple attachments and supporting information to complete and submit.

It is expected that the time required to coordinate the support letters, project plans, financial documents and other relevant attachments required can take in excess of 5+ hours. The Office for Recreation, Sport and Racing (ORSR) suggest that applicants take this into consideration when planning to submit an application. 

Application Form layout

1.  Introduction
2. Organisational Details 

3. Project Design

4. Collaboration and Partnering

5. Participation and Community Impact

6. Delivery (capacity and planning)

7. Project Costs and ORSR Request Amount

8. Declaration and Submission

The total budget for the 2024–2025 Active State Collaboration Program (ASCP) is $2,380,000.

$1,850,000 will be allocated to the targeted stream (inactive youth) and $530,000 allocated to the open stream (strategic).

In the event where the nominated budget for one stream is not fully exhausted, the remaining portion of that budget will be allocated to the other stream.

Of the total budget, $1,300,000 is exclusively available to sport and active recreation organisations.

Before completing this application form, you must read the program guidelines: ASCP Guidelines

If you need further guidance in the application process, are unable to submit the SmartyGrants application or wish to withdraw a submitted application, you can contact ORSR via email or phone: ORSR.Grants@sa.gov.au or 1300 714 990.

If you do contact us throughout the application process, please quote the application number below.

Applicants must ensure the following;

• The applicant’s legal name is entered exactly how it appears on the ASIC Registers website.
• The applicant’s Australian Business Number (ABN) is correctly entered and matches the legal name.
• If you do not have an ABN, you will need to submit a completed Australian Taxation Office (ATO) Statement by Supplier Form with your application, otherwise 46.5% of any approved grant may be withheld. Download the Statement by Supplier form from the ATO.
• Check that all the questions have been answered and all essential documentation is attached.
• Press submit once you have completed the application. Upon request, amendments can be made prior to the closing date upon request.

Ensure you follow the helpful hints on each question within the application form as well as the following tips:

• Keep responses to the questions clear and concise. Go to the SmartyGrants Answers Bank if you need some ideas about how to frame your response.
• Prioritise writing to ensure the most critical information is in a prominent position.
• Use dot point writing where possible.
• Assume the reader is not familiar with your project.
• Directly reference additional documents within the application.
• Accurately label attached files and avoid use of acronyms.
• Collate documents into singular files where possible eg attach one collection of photos in one file rather than uploading multiple individual photos.
• Attachments should be pdf format where possible.