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Youth Action and Wellbeing Grants

Grants totalling up to $100,000, open to groups led by young people (under 30) across the country working to create positive systemic change.

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What are the Youth Action and Wellbeing Grants? 

At FYA we back young people to make the change they want to see in the world. These grants aim to support under-resourced youth-led groups and grassroots campaigns with lived experience of injustice, by providing the resources they need to make a positive difference and helping them take care of themselves and their communities.

We are offering two types of grants:

  • Youth Action Grants: $5,000 – $15,000 to fund actions that create systemic change. We’ll distribute grants up to $75,000 in total.
  • Wellbeing Grants: $2,000 – $5,000 to support the wellbeing and sustainability of youth-led groups. We’ll distribute grants up to $25,000.

Beyond the money, recipients will have access to training and coaching from, media, strategy development, team culture and wellbeing, to community organising.

View the Grant Guidelines

2023 Grants timeline

Expressions of interest open 5 September – 2 October 
Online info session Week of 11 September
Shortlist announced 25 October 
Shortlisted round 2 applications due.       15 November
Recipients notified 24 November
Funds released Late-November and early-December


EOIs will be assessed by a Youth Grants Panel of 8 young people.

The following initiatives and projects were successful with their grant applications for 2023

  • The Kungka Pulkas (16-24 year old women) of the Mimili community in the APY lands for their campaign to get their own space in their community ($19,400).
  • Yung Prodigy ($18,000) – for their campaign to improve policy and services for young people dealing with parental incarceration.
  • Support Network for International Students (SNIS, $15,000) – for their #ScrapTheCap campaign, to remove limits on international student work hours.
  • WA Justice Association ($8,500) – for their work to reduce incarceration and recidivism rates in WA
  • Renters and Housing Union ($7,100) – for their renters rights info nights and renter organising.
  • Friends of the Earth Sustainable Cities Collective ($7,100) – for their Better Buses campaign in Melbourne’s western suburbs.
  • Young Workers Centre ($7,100) – for their campaign to scrap youth wage
  • Disability Justice Collective Perth/Boorloo ($4,400 wellbeing only) – for their disability pride festival
  • HALAQA ($4,400 wellbeing only) – young muslim women working to establish a dedicated women’s space in their local mosque in Melbourne
  • Our Court ($4,400 wellbeing only) – basketball program for African youth in Melbourne
  • Future Ancestors ($4,400 wellbeing only) – working to  increase Pasifika community representation in Australian politics and decision-making.