The Community Language Schools Grants Program strengthens Australia’s social inclusion by supporting young Australians to learn or maintain a language other than English.
The Program is helping more than 90,000 students learn 84 languages in over 600 community language schools across Australia.
The grants enable young Australians to:
- connect to the languages of their parents, grandparents and broader communities
- participate in a broader range of jobs in an economy closely linked to a diverse global market
- strengthen the social inclusion and prosperity of Australia’s successful multicultural society.
Community Language Schools Grants Program 2025
The Australian Government is investing $25.6 million, over four years from 2025-26, to support community language schools across Australia.
The program includes two streams of funding.
Stream One
Stream One provides up to $15.5 million of funding for existing and new community language schools. This stream will support the costs of program delivery, professional development and teacher training, and development of new online teaching material to boost enrolments.
This funding is being delivered through the:
- Community Language Schools Grants Program – Extension Round, where 85 community language schools were awarded approximately $1.47 million of funding over 4 years from 2025-26.
The grant was open to community language schools that did not receive funding under the previous program. For more information on the Community Language Schools Grants Program – Extension Round, see GrantConnect Archived Grant Opportunity View - GO8072. Successful schools will be published on GrantConnect. - Community Language Schools Grants Program – Variations, where community language schools funded under the previous Community Language Schools Grants Program were offered an opportunity to extend existing grant agreements. 571 organisations accepted the offer to extend their existing grant agreement. Information about the community language schools who extended their grants are published on GrantConnect.
Stream Two
Stream Two will provide $5 million over 4 years to support more students to become fluent in Asian languages through to Years 11 and 12.
The Community Language Schools Grants Program – Fluency in Asian Languages – Round 1 grant opportunity is funding 9 organisations for up to $2.5 million over 2 years from 2025-26. Successful organisations for this open competitive grant will be published on GrantConnect.
Community Language School Grants Program 2022
Through the 2022 Community Language Schools Grants program, successful community language schools received funding ranging from $6,600 to $33,600 over 2 years.
The funding also enabled community language schools to expand the delivery of language education to more school-aged children, including pre-schoolers.
For more information, see GrantConnect Archived Grant Opportunity GO6432.
