Health Minister Lara Giddings encouraged local groups from communities around the State to apply for $30,000 committed by the Tasmanian Government for small grants of up to $2,500 to run health promotion activities during Rural Health Week this year.
Ms Giddings also urged rural Tasmanians to nominate champions of health and wellbeing in their communities for the State’s Rural Health Awards.
Ms Giddings was in Oatlands to officially launch organisation for Rural Health Week – a collaborative effort between the Department of Health and Human Services, the University’s Department of Rural Health and the Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing.
