26Ten Workplace Grants for Tasmanian Employers (Australia)

The goal of the grant program is to support workers to improve their skills so they can do their jobs better, providing mutual benefit to your organisation and individual workers. Your organisation would contribute by releasing workers from their regular duties to participate, encouraging and supporting them as they participate, and providing necessary resources such as computers and training rooms.

These grants support employers and peak bodies to run projects to improve literacy and numeracy of Tasmanian workers (paid and volunteers).

Focus Areas

• The focus is on:
  • organisations who have a large proportion of workers with low or no qualifications
  • industries likely to have employees with low literacy
  • micro, small and medium-sized organisations
  • alignment with the 26Ten Coalition sector plans: community, legal, media, state government, local government, agriculture, education, and health
  • Tasmanian Government’s key industry sectors:
    • tourism and hospitality
    • building and construction (including civil construction)
    • advanced manufacturing (including maritime and defence manufacturing)
    • information and communications technology
    • aged services
    • disability services
    • agriculture
    • aquaculture
    • transport and logistics.

Funding Information

• Grant range: $5 000 – $65 000 (ex GST).

Eligible Projects

• They fund projects that help improve the reading, writing, maths, and digital skills of workers. To apply for funding, your project must show a good understanding of the skills needed in your organisation and your participants’ development needs.
• Your project must also provide evidence of your training needs, such as informal or formal assessment data or information, or anecdotal evidence. This can help increase the chances of your application being approved.
• They provide funding for the following types of projects:
  • A1: projects that offer general reading, writing, maths, and speaking and listening support to employees in the workplace who lack the necessary skills
  • A2: projects that offer reading, writing, maths, and speaking and listening support for adults who are participating in existing workplace training or learning programs. Funding will only be provided for the literacy training component, not the entire program.
  • A3: projects that are a new idea and have been approved by 26Ten
• Your project may also include:
  • basic digital literacy training for workers with low reading, writing, or maths skills below level 3 on the Australian Core Skills Framework
  • development of training resources for use in your project
  • improving workplace communication skills, including using plain English
  • training for staff to support low literacy workers or clients in the future
  • surveys, consultations, and research to determine the literacy needs of your workers
  • training in learning skills (ACSF core skill 1 – ‘learning how to learn’).
• Your project must include at least 50% of the activities described in A1 or A2. They will not provide funding for projects that are already funded by other sources, have funding available elsewhere, or cover costs not directly related to the project or hardware and equipment purchases.

Eligibility Criteria

• If you operate in Tasmania, you may be eligible to apply if you fit into one of the following categories:
  • an organisation or sole trader
  • a private or not-for-profit organisation
  • an industry association or peak body
  • a Registered Training Organisation (in partnership with any of the above)
• You can apply for up to two years of funding, but you need to apply each grant round (once a year). For your second year of funding, the application process will be simpler.
• If your organisation is large with operations in different parts of the state, you can apply for grants at individual sites.

For more information, visit Australian Government.