Young, Black & Proud Scholarship

You can receive either $2,000 or $1,000 to help you with your artistic or sporting dreams or support your education and training.

There are three categories that you can apply for: education and training (primary, secondary and tertiary), the arts and sports.

Sport: 
The sports scholarship category provides funds for up and coming young Indigenous athletes to help them successfully participate in the sports of their choice. Young people sometimes find it difficult to meet the ongoing and significant costs associated with participation at sporting competitions. Funding can be used towards the cost of travel and/or accommodation to attend a sporting championship (state, national or international), camps and sports clinics, registration fees, uniforms or equipment.

Education & training: 
This category supports young Indigenous students or trainees who want to pursue their education and training goals by providing scholarships that enable students in financial need to attend school, training and/or university. You can receive funds towards educational or training goals. Funds can be used to pay for such things as course fees, equipment, uniforms, text books and stationery.

Arts: 
This category is for innovative young Indigenous artists to undertake professional development programs and activities in their chosen field. The scholarship is open to young artists and performers from all art forms, including dance, design, digital arts (including photography), Aboriginal arts, literature, music, theatre, screen and the visual arts. Funding can be used towards any items that support your ability to further your artistic goals, for example:
• equipment and materials
• marketing and planning, e.g. towards an exhibition
• travel and accommodation to a conference or exhibition fees.

Yes. Our clinics are located at Browns Plains, Logan, Loganlea, Northgate and Woolloongabba. Contact us on (07) 3240 8900 (press 4) to make an appointment today.

If you have already received funding from another scholarship or were successful in a previous round of our scholarship, you may not be eligible for this round. Preference will be given to young people who have not received previous help or funding.

You will receive an email confirming your submission has been received shortly after you hit submit. If you don’t receive this email within 24 hours please drop us an email.

Yes! Give us a buzz on (07) 3240 8900 (Press 1) or drop us an email.

Yes please! We can send you some printed flyers that you can give out to others in your community. Or you can share the love on social media. Got a question or need something else? Send us an email. 

For group applications we are looking for ways in which we can support the group as a whole, rather than one scholarship fund that will be divided across the individual participants. Things like teams needing to purchase new equipment, groups travelling to competitions or showcases, or renting training spaces.