Future Ready 2025-26

• Applicants must be based in Victoria. • Applicants must have a current Australian Business Number (ABN), unless applying through an auspice arrangement. • Eligible applicants include registered Victorian government secondary schools. • Eligible applicants include not-for-profit organisations incorporated under the Corporations Act 2001 and registered with the Australian Charities and Not-for-profits Commission. • Eligible applicants include incorporated Aboriginal entities, including Aboriginal not-for-profit organisations, Aboriginal Community Controlled Organisations, Traditional Owner groups and land trusts. • Eligible applicants include incorporated social enterprises with a clear mission related to engaging and empowering young people. • Social enterprises must attach their constitution with the application. • Applicants must seek funding for eligible activities under the program. • Applicants must have no overdue reports from previous or current grants funded by the Department of Families, Fairness and Housing. • Applicants must include all mandatory attachments in an acceptable format. • Unincorporated associations and community organisations with no ABN are not eligible to apply directly but may apply using an auspice. • Auspiced applications must include a letter of support or letter of intent from the auspice organisation. • Partnership applications are encouraged between community organisations or social enterprises and secondary schools, or between two or more secondary schools. • Ineligible entities include government entities and agencies, individuals and sole traders, private for-profit companies, non-government schools and charitable trusts. • Funded activities must take place in Victoria.