The Camps, Sports and Excursions Fund provides payments for eligible students to attend school camps, excursions, and sports and outdoor education programs.

The Camps, Sports and Excursions Fund (CSEF) provides payments for eligible students to attend activities like:

• school camps or trips
• swimming and school-organised sport programs
• outdoor education programs
• excursions and incursions
• graduations/valedictories.

Payment amounts

Payments amounts for 2025 are:

• $154 per year for eligible primary school students
• $256 per year for eligible secondary school students.

For ungraded students, the rate is determined by the Date of Birth

• $154 per year for students born on or after 1 July 2013
• $256 per year for students born on or before 30 June 2013.

Payments are made directly to the school and are tied to the student.

• from March onwards each year where the parent/carers concession card is assessed as valid on the first day of term 1; and
• until 4 July 2025 where the parent/carers concession card is assessed as valid at the end of term 2.

Payments are for the application year and cannot be claimed for previous years.

Special consideration is given to:

• Families on a bridging visa, temporary protection visa, are in community detention or are asylum seeker families
• Students in out of home care
• Students in statutory kinship care

Who can apply?

Criteria 1

The applicant must be one of the following:

1. a parent/carer (of the relevant student) who is:
   • on the first day of term one (30 January 2023) or the first day of term two (24 April 2023) an eligible beneficiary of either a Centrelink Health Care Card or a Pensioner Concession Card; or
   • an eligible beneficiary of a Veterans Affairs Gold Card; or
2. a temporary foster carer; or
3. a student is 16 years or older and holds a valid concession card (such as a Youth Allowance Health Care Card or Disability Support Pension Card).

Criteria 2

For CSEF, students may be eligible for assistance if they attend a registered Victorian school. Typically, these students are aged between five and 18 years.

School is compulsory for all Victorian children aged between six and 17 years of age.

CSEF is not payable to students attending pre-school, kindergarten, TAFE or who are homeschooled.

• Email: csef@education.vic.gov.au