Healthy Harold's Garden Grants 2025
Applications have closed for the 2025 Healthy Harold's Garden Grants program. Good luck to all that applied. Grant winners will be notified by phone or email on w/c 11 August 2025.
Life Ed and Bakers Delight’s Healthy Solutions Range are teaming up to help kids grow edible plants, learn healthy habits, and create thriving classroom gardens.
Enter for a chance to win 1 of 25 $1,000 Garden Grants for your Preschool, Primary School, Kindergarten, or Childcare Centre.
It’s easy! The application takes just 5–8 minutes.
Parents and Families: Please seek your school’s approval before applying or sharing this link with your school.
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Through the Harold's Garden Grants (HGG) program, Life Ed and Bakers Delight’s Healthy Solutions range are encouraging children to get gardening and to ask more questions about where their food comes from. As part of the program, primary schools, preschools and early learning centres across Australia, will have the opportunity to win a grant, to establish their very own food garden or to upgrade an existing one.
All primary schools, preschools and early learning centres across Australia seeking to educate young Australians about gardening and healthy living can apply. If you are a teacher or parent interested in applying, please work with your school on your submission. This grant is not open to home day care and home schools.
The Harold’s Garden Grant program is only open to entries from primary schools, preschools and early learning centres. This includes K-12 schools, that include students from primary school up to Year 12.
While Life Ed and Bakers Delight are supportive of efforts in secondary school and community garden initiatives, the campaign’s eligibility and educational activities have a focus on primary schools, preschools and early learnings centres to reach more students in these early years.
While Life Ed and Bakers Delight are supportive of efforts in secondary school and community garden initiatives, the campaign’s eligibility and educational activities have a focus on primary schools, preschools and early learnings centres to reach more students in these early years.
There are 25 X $1000 school garden grants up for grabs courtesy of Bakers Delight’s Healthy Solutions range. Applicant schools will also have access to free resources to support unique learning experiences in the classroom.
From Grow your Own Pizza Garden and observation activities, Life Ed and Bakers Delight’s Healthy Solutions range have created fun hands-on activities that can be tailored according to class needs.
From Grow your Own Pizza Garden and observation activities, Life Ed and Bakers Delight’s Healthy Solutions range have created fun hands-on activities that can be tailored according to class needs.
Successful schools will be chosen by a judging panel based on the following criteria:
- Plans that encourage children to learn where food comes from, promoting healthy habits
- Level of hands-on student involvement in the project
- Feasible and technically-sound project activities
- Realistic and detailed project budget
- Integration into the classroom, teaching children about healthy eating
- Clearly illustrate the need for the grant money
- Plans that encourage children to learn where food comes from, promoting healthy habits
- Level of hands-on student involvement in the project
- Feasible and technically-sound project activities
- Realistic and detailed project budget
- Integration into the classroom, teaching children about healthy eating
- Clearly illustrate the need for the grant money
Schools can apply for a grant from 3 June (9am AEST) to 24 June 2025 (12am AEST).
The 25 grant winners for the promotional period will be notified by phone or email on w/c 11 August 2025.
We will announce the winners publicly on 21 August 2025.
We will announce the winners publicly on 21 August 2025.
