Support FYA’s Opportunity Scholarships

The Opportunity Scholarships and Opportunity Grants programs are initiatives of Education Foundation, a division of FYA, and articulate its central vision of a public education system that inspires and enables all young people in Australian “to achieve their best”.

Opportunity Scholarships have been awarded bi-annually since 2003 as a means of assisting public school students to “pursue their talents and aspirations”. Sums of up to $1000 enable talented individual students, defined as “facing disadvantage” and currently in receipt of an educational allowance, to undertake curriculum-based programs and activities in a range of areas and disciplines (arts, performing arts, maths/sciences, sport, communications, etc). Where Opportunity Scholarships target individual students, Opportunity Grants, initiated and piloted by Education Foundation in 2007, provide funding of up to $4000 to enable schools to address collective programming needs of groups of students.

You can support students in need by donating to FYA online

Opportunity Scholarship applications now open

Applications for Opportunity Scholarships, Grants and the new Bushfire Response Scholarship are now open and close on August 24. The Opportunity Scholarships program is an important element of Education Foundation’s ambition to enable all young people in Australia to become successful learners, active citizens and confident young people who will shape the future… Read more