Funding for parents
Camps, Sports and Excursion Funding (CSEF)
2024 CSEF Application -This form is for Health Care or Concession Card Holders and if eligible who are entitled to $150* per year from the government per primary school student to assist with any costs relating to Camps, Sporting Events or Excursions. For more information please click on this link: https://www.education.vic.gov.au/about/programs/Pages/csef.aspx
2025 SCHOOL SAVINGS BONUS
The School Saving Bonus provides a one-off $400 to help Victorian families cover the costs of their kids’ school uniforms, textbooks, excursions and activities for 2025. Click here for the printable PDF regarding the bonus.
Government school information
The School Saving Bonus for Government school students can be accessed via the School Saving Bonus online system in November 2024.
Families can choose how they spend the School Saving Bonus. It can be used towards 2025 school costs, which may include:
- camps, trips, excursions and incursions
- swimming and sporting programs
- outdoor education programs
- graduations
- school uniforms
- textbooks.
The School Saving Bonus will be emailed directly to parents and carers in November 2024. Please check your junk folder if you cannot locate the email. If you do not receive information by 25 November 2024, please contact your school for support.
Families can allocate all or part of the bonus to help with the cost of school activities. This allocation will be made within the online system.
The bonus can also be used at your school’s designated textbook or uniform suppliers in-store or online, or through State Schools’ Relief until 30 June 2025.
If your school does not have a uniform, or if you would like to use your bonus for unbranded school uniform items, you can use the bonus through the State Schools’ Relief.
If any amount allocated to textbooks or uniforms is unspent as at 1 July 2025, it will become a school activities credit for you to use through your school.