The Flying Start Aboriginal Workforce Grants program is established under the South Australian Aboriginal Early Childhood Workforce Strategy (2025 – 2027) to help services to enhance their cultural knowledge. It also supports services to:
• apply what they currently know about their local Aboriginal Community
• embed Aboriginal cultural safety within their service, and
• assist their Aboriginal staff in their professional development.

Applications for this program should demonstrate how the applying organisation will either:
• use the funding in localised centre-based initiatives and activities to:

• o strengthen how ECEC services’ cultural knowledge will be applied in a service, or
  o access Aboriginal education resources, or
  o support Aboriginal Community connections

• support the professional development of existing Aboriginal staff within their ECEC service.

Under the Flying Start Aboriginal Workforce Grants program, one-off 12-month grants up to the value of$20,000 are available.

Grant funding will be awarded based on a competitive assessment process. Funding is not guaranteed and will depend on the quality and merit of applications received. Some successful applications may beonly partially funded.

Applications must include costings to demonstrate anticipated grant spending that aligns with the program’s purpose and objectives.

For organisations seeking to improve early childhood workforce attraction and retention in regional, rural, and hard-to-staff communities in South Australia, please see the Flying Start Workforce Grants

Applications close 3 November 2025

For further information please visit  FS-Aboriginal-Workforce-Grant-Guidelines.pdf