Community organisations must meet all eligibility requirements in section 3 of the Program Guidelines or be recognised by the department as an association representing community language schools.

What your project must do?

Your project can develop teaching materials or provide professional learning for teachers, or both. The outcomes must benefit the wider language community or be easily adapted for use across different language groups.

Organisations are encouraged to collaborate with other organisations operating community languages schools to submit joint proposals and to consider making resources produced through the project available online.

See examples of approved specific project grants.

How applications are assessed?

Successful applications will show:

• Evidence of community consultation, research and identified needs
• Benefit to communities that use the same language and be transferable to other languages
• Educational merit in stated objectives, intended outcomes, and suggested pedagogical approaches
• Effective project planning including budget and timeline
• Capacity and skills of project team members to achieve project outcomes.

Who can apply?

• Your organisation can apply for a Specific Project Grant if it meets the requirements for the Per Capita Grant through the NSW Community Languages Schools Program.
• Organisations can submit only one application per year.

What are the conditions?

Organisations must submit a Specific Project Grant Acquittal Report, including a Statement of Oncome and Expenditure, by 31 October following the end of the funding period.

The following must be submitted to the Community Languages Schools Program:

• Specific Project Grant Acquittal Report, including the Statement of Income and Expenditure.
• Copies of all teaching material or resources developed through the project.

Organisations that do not submit a satisfactory acquittal by the due date will be ineligible for future CLSP grants. Any future grant payments will be withheld until all outstanding requirements have been met.

Requirements relating to intellectual property rights, moral rights and copyright are outlined in the grant funding agreement.

When is the closing date?

Applications close on 31 May each year.