This new statewide program will be launching soon and runs on the financial year (1 July 2024 to 30 June 2025).
Ticket to Wellbeing is a Tasmanian Government initiative designed to reduce the cost of sport and active recreation membership and/or registration for eligible older people.
Ticket to Wellbeing provides two $100 vouchers towards the cost of sport and active recreation membership and/or registration for older people aged 65 and older who are listed on a Services Australia Health Care or Pensioner Concession Card.
The key objective of Ticket to Wellbeing is to increase the number of older Tasmanians participating in sport and active recreation.
The program runs on a financial year. Vouchers must be given to an Approved Activity Provider to redeem by 6 June 2025.
To be an Approved Activity Provider, all organisations must:
- have appropriate processes in place to ensure compliance with the Registration to Work with Vulnerable People Act 2013 and meet the following criteria.
Sporting clubs must be:
- incorporated, not-for-profit entities
- a provider of a sport recognised by the Australian Sports Commission
- affiliated to the relevant state or national sporting organisation.
A sporting club must also demonstrate that it provides a program with a minimum six weeks of activity.
All Approved Activity Providers must:
- ensure that all coaches, referees, first aid officers, and other relevant staff and volunteers hold the relevant skills, experience or qualifications for low-risk activities they provide, and/or appropriate accreditation for high-risk activities (specifically swimming and fitness activities)
- hold current Certificates of Currency for professional indemnity and public liability insurance policies appropriate to the type and level of activities being delivered.
If there is no recognised state sporting organisation/association for a recognised sport in Tasmania, a not-for-profit or for-profit provider can apply to be an Approved Activity Provider when it meets certain requirements. These include:
- holding an ABN or be incorporated, if it is a business
- having appropriate member safety policies and processes
- providing a program with a minimum six weeks of activity.
Private sports providers (for-profit businesses) must be:
- a registered business
- be affiliated or have an agreement with a recognised State or National Sporting Organisation or association for a sport or active recreation activity that the business provides.
Other activity providers (such as dance, yoga studios) must:
- provide a copy of their current Public Liability Insurance
- provide a list of instructors with their qualifications and their status regarding their registration to work with vulnerable people.
All gymnasiums/fitness centres (including those with aquatic facilities) must:
- be a registered business with an ABN
- provide a copy of their current Public Liability and Professional Indemnity Insurance certificate
- ensure that instructing staff have the appropriate qualifications.