The Australian Government is investing $25.6 million over 4 years from 2025-26, to support young Australians to learn or maintain a language other than English.
This grants program will:
- strengthen Australia's social inclusion
- help preserve language within multicultural communities
- connect young Australians to the languages of their parents, grandparents and communities
- enable young Australians to participate in a broader range of jobs in the global market.
This program includes 2 streams of funding.
- Stream One will provide $15.5 million to community language schools. This grant funding can be used to support the operational costs of program delivery, professional development and teacher training, or to develop new online teaching material to boost enrolments.
- Stream Two will provide $5 million to support more students to become fluent in Asian languages to Years 11 and 12.
Community Language Schools Grants Program – Fluency in Asian Languages – Round 2
This grant round is part of Stream Two and expected to open in late 2026.
Further information about this grant will be published on GrantConnect, as it becomes available.
More information on the delivery of this grant program is available at Community Language School Grants Program.
