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Created in honour of Tessa and Chrysanthy Mallos, whose generous bequest to ABFNSW has made this opportunity possible, this grant is offered to aspiring artists and arts workers from underrepresented groups, seeking a career in the arts industry.

The grant is open to NSW residents with a confirmed place at any accredited tertiary training institution in Australia, whose primary course of study is within a performing arts stream. Undergraduate, post-graduate and some vocational diploma courses are all applicable. Students undertaking courses in performance, theatre production, technical theatre, stage management, directing, design and writing are eligible to apply.

First Nations, Culturally and Linguistically Diverse, people with disability or who are d/Deaf are strongly encouraged to apply.

The Mallos Training Grant has no affiliation with any training institution and is intended to support students with relocation and/or living costs while undertaking their studies.

Actors Benevolent Fund of NSW will work with We The Industry and other industry professionals to select recipients. We The Industry will provide additional support to recipients through mentoring services throughout their training.

Available Grants

Grants will be awarded on an annual basis. Recipients may receive support to cover the length of their training, or a one-off amount to support them through one year of study. Grants are available to students commencing a new course and to students entering 2nd or 3rd year study.

In 2027, one student entering into the first year of a minimum 3-year course will be provided with a total grant of $45,000, to be distributed at regular intervals throughout the period of study.

Additional one-off grants of between $5,000 and $10,000 will be made available to students partway through their study or undertaking post-graduate study to support them during the year.

Recipients will also be given the chance to work with a We The Industry Mentor throughout their training. Through close consultation with each grant recipient, We The Industry will identify a working arts professional to provide mentorship services in the first year of study. Students can expect to meet with their mentor bi-monthly in this first year, with the hopes of building a relationship that will outlast the program. With a mentor by their side, recipients will have access to an important and current industry perspective that will give context to their training and help equip them for a successful career in the arts

Eligibility

In order to be eligible for this grant, applicants must:

1. Be an Australian citizen or permanent resident

2. Be a resident of NSW at the time of application (or will be a resident of NSW throughout the course of their training)

3. Have a confirmed offer of a place at an accredited tertiary training institution (to be provided after notification of shortlisting to the program)

4. Be able to demonstrate how this support would allow them to undertake/continue their study

Recipients of the 3-year grant will only receive payments in Years 2 and 3 if continuing their course of study

Organisations with specialist expertise in LGBTIQA+ health and wellbeing are invited to apply for one-off competitive grants to support new and existing initiatives at the local, regional and national level that will foster access to appropriate, culturally sound and inclusive health care. It is expected that this will be the final substantive LHP disbursement for the 2026-2027 financial year.

The primary objective of the LHP is to support LGBTIQA+ community-led organisations and, where appropriate, generalist organisations (see definition of generalist service in ‘glossary’) to deliver new services or expand existing services, in partnership with LGBTIQA+ communities.

The LHP will prioritise resources and opportunities for LGBTIQA+ community-led organisations, or generalist organisations that have written support from at least one LGBTIQA+ organisation. Successful proposals must show demonstrated expertise in the delivery of LGBTIQA+ health and wellbeing services, genuine partnerships, and build the capacity and leadership of LGBTIQA+ organisations.

PCFA’s 2027 Community Grants Scheme offers affiliated Prostate Cancer Support Groups the opportunity to apply for funding to deliver local projects that raise awareness, strengthen outreach and connect more men and families with support.

The scheme supports PCFA’s mission by helping Support Groups increase visibility, engage local communities, and deliver practical activities that encourage early detection and ongoing support.

Applications are invited from affiliated PCFA Prostate Cancer Support Groups. Individual grants are capped at $5,000 and may support one or more of the following purposes:

1. Community events that build prostate cancer awareness, promote your Support Group locally, support community engagement or include fundraising

2. Awareness-building activities that educate the community about prostate cancer, such as using the Life Force Presentation.

3. Essential marketing items such as banners, business cards and branded tablecloths that help promote your group and its affiliation with PCFA.

The Made in NSW – Local Fund includes two streams: the Made in NSW – Local Fund and the Regional Filming Fund (Program).

The Made in NSW - Local Fund supports high-end feature film and television drama productions by Australian production companies that are genuinely footloose and able to complete the majority of principal photography in New South Wales. Supported projects must have strong international potential and the capacity to reach new audiences, while also delivering significant employment opportunities for NSW-based screen practitioners.

The Regional Filming Fund offsets costs associated with shooting in regional areas of NSW to ensure regional communities share in the economic benefits of the screen sector. Regional NSW is defined as all areas in NSW outside the Greater Sydney region.

To be eligible, projects must have a total Production Budget between AUD $5 million and $18 million. If applying for the Regional Filming Fund, projects must meet the narrative minimum Qualifying Regional Production Expenditure in Regional NSW (QRPE) of $750,000 for narrative projects and shoot a minimum of 10 days in a regional NSW Local Government Area (LGA).

Youth Development Scholarships program provides $1,000 for study expenses like laptops, textbooks, or uniforms. It helps young people in social housing or out-of-home care achieve their education goals.

You are eligible to apply if you are:

Studying in Year 10, 11 or 12 in NSW at one of the following in 2027:

• NSW high school
• HSC equivalent at a TAFE college
• home-schooling
• doing a school-based apprenticeship or traineeship.

You must also be either a social housing client or living in out-of-home care, this can include:

• living in public housing, including Aboriginal housing
• being on the NSW Housing Register (wait list)
• receiving a private rental subsidy from DCJ (not Centrelink)
• living in community housing/Aboriginal community housing
• living in housing provided by a Local Aboriginal Land Council
• living in supported, crisis or temporary accommodation
• living in statutory, supported or voluntary out-of-home care.

Application Dates

Applications open Monday 9am, 12 October 2026 and closes Friday 5pm, 12 February 2027 for all high school students and Friday 5pm, 5 March 2027 for all returning tertiary students.

In partnership with HESTA, the 2026 Hireup Impact Grants will fund goals that let Hireup clients and workers express who they are, keep their choice and control, and live their good life. 

This year $5,000 is being offered to fund an idea, experience or opportunity that supports people with disability and older Australians to hold on to their choice and control.

Here are some examples of things Hireup clients could apply for:

• Cover course fees and study costs: Tuition, a reliable laptop, textbooks.
• Purchase tools for self-expression: An instrument, art materials, studio time, a wardrobe that lets someone express who they are.
• A bridge to living independently: Bond and setup costs, the gap on a home modification, something that makes a move possible.
• Support to live well: Help with a specific cost that’s getting in the way of your standard of living.

The Disability Advocacy Futures Program Special Purposes and Projects and, Sector Development 2026 Stream 1 grant program has 4 key objectives:

• increase available advocacy supports to assist people with disability and their supporters in NSW to actively engage with and access services in their communities in a more informed and empowered way.
• further develop the NSW disability advocacy sector through quality improvement, collaboration and innovation and building the capacity of individuals to self-advocate.
• build stronger networks and learning opportunities for the NSW disability advocacy sector.
• support people with disability to respond and adapt to key policy reforms at a state and national level by developing their self-advocacy capacity, access to information and broad advocacy supports.

The Disability Advocacy Futures Program Special Purposes and Projects and, Sector Development 2026 grant program (Thriving Kids) has 4 key objectives:

• increase the availability of advocacy supports to assist children aged 0-8 years with developmental delay and/or autism and their families, carers and kin, to access information, engage with services and supports, and participate in their communities in an informed and empowered way.
• further develop the NSW disability advocacy and service sector through quality improvement, collaboration and innovation, and initiatives that build the capacity of individuals, families, carers and kin to self-advocate.
• build stronger networks, partnerships and learning opportunities across the NSW disability advocacy sector, including initiatives that strengthen linkages between advocacy, early childhood, health, education and community services.
• support people and / or children with disability and their families, carers and kin to respond and adapt to key policy reforms at a state and national level by developing their self-advocacy capacity, access to information and broad advocacy supports.

This Grant Program has been introduced to help increase the capability of Para coaches. It provides both individual Para coaches and NSO/Ds and NIN partners (Organisations) with financial support towards a program, project, or initiative that supports either the development of the Individual HP Para Coach (Individual HP Para Coach Development Grant) or HP Para Coaches within an Organisation (Organisation HP Para Coach Development Grant).

Individual coaches can apply for grants up to $6,000 and Organisations for grants up to $20,000.

The HESTA Australian Nursing & Midwifery Awards recognise nurses, midwives, nurse educators and researchers as well as personal care workers. To be eligible, the nominee must be registered with the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia.

Award categories

• Outstanding Organisation
• Midwife of the Year
• Nurse of the Year

Employers, patients, colleagues, nurses and midwives can nominate themselves or a special individual or team who has made a real difference to the lives of patients or to the quality of a service.

Everyone involved in every stage of the delivery of care can enter or be nominated.

Community, sporting and educational groups across the Moree Plains are invited to secure funding from the Public Donations fund to help sponsor their next event, purchase new equipment or otherwise fund the provision of services for activities within the Shire.

Council will consider eligible applications for financial assistance at its first meeting in each financial quarter except in the first quarter of each calendar year, when it may be considered at the first or second meeting of Council.

Funding will be provided to organisations for activities that best contribute to delivery of the following Program outcomes:   

1. a professional, viable and ethical Indigenous visual arts industry that features strong participation by, and provides economic opportunities for, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people
2. the continued production, exhibition, critique, purchase and collection of Indigenous visual art.

To be eligible for an IVAIS grant, your organisation must be one of the following entity types:

• an Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander Corporation registered under the Corporations (Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander) Act 2006
• an entity established through specific Commonwealth or State or Territory legislation
• a company incorporated in Australia
• a company limited by guarantee
• an incorporated association
• a publicly funded research organisation
• state, territory or local government body

and

• have an Australian Business Number (ABN)
• be registered for the Goods and Services Tax, if required by the Australian Taxation Office
• have an account with an Australian financial institution
• have no overdue acquittals or serious breaches relating to Australian Government funding. A serious breach is one that has resulted in, or warrants, the termination of a grant agreement.

Throughout Australia, individuals and groups are working to identify private unmarked graves of First World War veterans and marking these graves to recognise their service. This Marking (First World War) Private Graves Grants (MPG) Program contributes to the cost of establishing a grave marker on currently unmarked private graves.

The MPG Program provides one-off funding of up to $620 per grave to assist with the purchase of a grave marker for unmarked private graves of veterans of the First World War. You can seek funding for up to 10 grave markers in each individual application, and you may only submit a maximum of 2 applications.

The objective of the grant opportunity is to contribute to community recognition of the service and sacrifice of service personnel in the First World War. It does this by providing funding to contribute to the cost of establishing a grave marker on currently unmarked private graves.

The intended outcome of the MPG Program is to mark private graves of veterans of the First World War so as to:

• enable community recognition of service
• preserve and add to the knowledge of, or provide information about, Australia’s wartime heritage. 

Eligibility

You are only eligible to apply for a grant if ALL the below requirements are met:

• The grave must be located within the Commonwealth of Australia, including external territories: Christmas Island, Cocos and Keeling Islands, Norfolk Island, Ashmore and Cartier Islands, Coral Sea Islands, and Heard and McDonald Islands.
• The grave must be unmarked as per the definition outlined in section 2 of the Grant Opportunity Guidelines.
• The veteran at rest within the grave must have:
•  lived in Australia at the time of enlistment
•  seen active service in the First World War between 10 August 1914 and 21 August 1918 with the Australian Naval and Military Expeditionary Force, the Australian Imperial Force or the King Edwards Horse
• been assessed by the Repatriation Commission and been found ineligible for official commemoration by the Government.
• You have appropriate permission to alter the grave (see section 4.2 of the Grant Opportunity Guidelines).
• You have a formal quote from an authorised provider for the total cost of the marker. 

The Rhoda Roberts Trailblazer Award is a new category within Creative Australia First Nations Arts and Culture Awards, established in memory of the late Rhoda Roberts AO, one of Australia's most influential First Nations cultural leaders, broadcasters, festival directors and arts advocates. The award will be presented for the first time in 2027. 

The award honours the legacy, leadership and transformational contribution of Rhoda Roberts AO. Throughout her career, Rhoda demonstrated courage, cultural authority, innovation and an extraordinary ability to create new opportunities for First Nations artists and communities. Her influence extended beyond artistic achievement and advocacy through her work creating pathways for others, fostering innovation, leading major cultural events and festivals, and building national and international connections that strengthened the visibility and impact of First Nations arts and culture. 

The Rhoda Roberts Trailblazer Award recognises a First Nations leader whose visionary work, innovation and influence have transformed the arts and cultural sector through pioneering approaches and the creation of new opportunities for others. It celebrates individuals whose leadership has opened doors, expanded opportunities and driven lasting change for First Nations artists, cultural practitioners and communities. 

The award seeks to recognise individuals whose impact extends beyond their own artistic achievements or advocacy efforts and whose work has made a significant contribution to the development and growth of the sector. This may include creating new pathways and opportunities, leading innovative initiatives, working across multiple artforms and disciplines, building cultural and industry connections, and expanding opportunities for First Nations artists nationally and internationally. 

In recognition of Rhodas' legacy, the award celebrates individuals who have demonstrated visionary leadership and whose contribution has left a lasting impact and effected substantial change across the First Nations arts and cultural landscape, creating opportunities and possibilities (that didn't exist prior) for future generations. 

The Connect IRL Phase 2 grant aims to support children and young people aged 8-24 from identified priority youth cohorts. This has been influenced through the recent Space to Speak consultation.

• Access safe, welcoming and inclusive spaces to connect with others and participate in community life and build meaningful relationships and social connections that foster a stronger sense of belonging and inclusion.
• Receive enhanced and targeted mentoring including trauma-informed and lived experience approaches, and to enable mentors to more effectively support them to form meaningful connections in real life environments.
• Respond to emerging and locally identified needs through initiatives that strengthen community engagement and create opportunities for input in decisions that affect them.
• Develop skills, confidence and capabilities needed to navigate transitions, pursue education and employment opportunities and actively contribute to their communities through civic, leadership or through structured mentoring programs that promote healthy relationships, empathy, mutual respect, and active civic participation.
• Strengthen offline connections by delivering inclusive, pro-social activities and safe discussion spaces that support mental health, physical health, practical skill development and healthy relationships that foster mutual understanding, reduce isolation, and build peer networks — with a focus on those from marginalised, diverse, or geographically isolated communities.

Eligibility

All applicants are required to meet the following eligibility criteria to be eligible to apply for the grant program you must be:

• Not for profit companies limited by guarantee, registered with the ACNC and/or with DGR status.
• NSW associations or non-distributing co-operatives registered with NSW Fair Trading.
• Local Aboriginal Land Councils.
• Not-for-profit Indigenous corporations registered with the Office of the Registrar of Indigenous Corporations.
• NSW local councils operating under the Local Government Act 1993.
• Not-for-profit entities incorporated under an Act of Parliament.
• Incorporated Association registered outside of NSW but with an Australian Registered Body Number (ARBN).