The program will fund place-based whole of community projects designed to meet the community’s English language, literacy, numeracy and digital literacy training needs. 

SEE First Nations grants will fund First Nations organisations including Aboriginal Community Controlled Organisations (ACCOs), registered training organisations (RTOs), Adult Community Education (ACE) providers or peak bodies (applying on behalf of their eligible members) to work with communities to design appropriate training. These organisations will need to demonstrate in their grant application that they have experience delivering this kind of training to First Nations Australians and they have true community support.

There are two types of grants available, this record refers to Delivery Grants:

• Scoping Grants – provide funding for community engagement, and relationship and capacity building and to establish if there is a need for English LLND training in a community and to prepare an application for a Delivery Grant. Scoping Grants have a maximum value of $30,000.
• Delivery Grants – are grants to eligible organisations to co-design and deliver English LLND skills training to First Nations people. Delivery grants will typically be for between $350,000 and $1 million per year over a 2 to 3 year period for a single site, or up to $3 million per year for delivery at multiple sites. This is the major component of SEE First Nations.

To be eligible to apply for a Delivery Grant, your organisation must be either a:

• ACCO
• First Nations RTO
• First Nations ACE provider (which may or may not be RTOs)
• First Nations Community Organisation peak bodies (applying on behalf of their eligible members)
• and have the legal capacity to enter into a grant with the Commonwealth
• be affiliated with the community/communities on whose behalf they apply, or partnering with an organisation that is. In the case of a peak body this refers to the community affiliation of the member organisation you are applying on behalf of. Community affiliation can be demonstrated by providing evidence such as:
  • annual reports showing us that you have local community involvement at a board/employment level etc.
  • statements of support from community leaders.

• Email: SEEFirstNations@dewr.gov.au