Search Grants & Funding

The SEE Program includes two distinct but complementary streams to support LLND skills training in metropolitan, regional, and remote areas:

Stream 1: LLND skills training delivery to individuals by SEE providers, contracted by the department, including through place-based project delivery.

Stream 2: SEE First Nations - locally tailored, whole of community LLND skills training delivery to First Nations people through place-based grants. SEE First Nations grants will fund First Nations organisations, including Aboriginal Community Controlled Organisations (ACCOs), registered training organisations (RTOs), Adult and Community Education (ACE) providers or peak bodies (applying on behalf of their eligible members).

SEE First Nations grants will fund projects that are designed to meet whole of community English LLND skills training needs of First Nations people.

Improving English LLND skills is a stepping stone to improving:

• individual, family and community wellbeing, and
• cultural and social outcomes.

SEE First Nations offers two different grant opportunities:

Scoping Grants

Small grants of up to $30,000 (excluding GST) to help eligible organisations to develop a Delivery Grant application.

Delivery Grants

Grants to eligible organisations to deliver English LLND skills training to First Nations people across Australia. The training is to be co-designed with the community/communities in which it will be delivered.

Delivery Grants will typically be for between $350,000 and $1,000,000 (excluding GST) per year over a 2 to 3 year period, for a single site, or up to $3,000,000 (excluding GST) per year for delivery at multiple sites.

This is the major component of SEE First Nations.  

Eligibility:

To be eligible to apply for a Delivery Grant, your organisation must be either a:

• ACCO
• First Nations RTO
• First Nations ACE provider (which may or may not be RTOs)
• First Nations Community Organisation peak bodies (applying on behalf of their eligible members)
• and have the legal capacity to enter into a grant agreement with the Commonwealth
• be affiliated with the community/communities on whose behalf they apply or partnering with an organisation that is. In the case of a peak body this refers to the community affiliation of the member organisation you are applying on behalf of. Community affiliation can be demonstrated by providing evidence such as:
  • annual reports showing us that you have local community involvement at a board/employment level etc.
  • statements of support from community leaders.

The Commonwealth Prac Payment – Vocational Education and Training (CPP (VET)) grant will assist eligible students to manage the costs associated with undertaking a mandatory practicum placement as part of a Diploma of Nursing qualification.

Eligibility:

• Be a domestic student
• Enrolled in a Diploma of Nursing course
• Undertake a practicum placement on average 30 hours or more per week
• Be on a Commonwealth income support payment (e.g. ABSTUDY, Austudy, Youth Allowance or DVA Education Allowance) or Meet a ‘Need to work’ and ‘Income test’ criteria.

In line with governments’ commitment to the National Agreement on Closing the Gap, the Australian Government will create partnerships with First Nations people, communities and organisations to create new opportunities and achieve better outcomes at a local level.

Scoping grants are small grants of up to $30,000 (excluding GST) to help eligible organisations to develop a Delivery Grant application.

To be eligible to apply for a Delivery Grant, your organisation must be either a:

• ACCO
• First Nations RTO
• First Nations ACE provider (which may or may not be RTOs)
• First Nations Community Organisation peak bodies (applying on behalf of their eligible members)
• and have the legal capacity to enter into a grant with the Commonwealth
• be affiliated with the community/communities on whose behalf they apply, or partnering with an organisation that is. In the case of a peak body this refers to the community affiliation of the member organisation you are applying on behalf of. Community affiliation can be demonstrated by providing evidence such as:
  • annual reports showing us that you have local community involvement at a board/employment level etc.
  • statements of support from community leaders