Camps, Sports and Excursions Fund

The Camps, Sports and Excursions Fund helps eligible families to cover the costs of school trips, camps and sporting activities.

If you have a valid means-tested concession card, such as a Veterans Affairs Gold Card, Centrelink Health Care Card or Pensioner Concession Card, or are a temporary foster parent, you may be eligible. There is also a special consideration category for asylum seeker and refugee families.

Payment amounts this year are $225 for eligible secondary school students. Payments are made direct to the school to use towards expenses relating to camps, excursions and sporting activities for the benefit of your child.

Payments are made directly to our school and are tied to the student.

• from March onwards each year where the parent/carer’s concession card is assessed as valid on the first day of term 1; and
• until June 23 where the parent/carer’s concession card is assessed as valid at the end of term 2.

Payments are for the application year and cannot be claimed for previous years.

If you applied for CSEF through our school last year, you do not need to complete an application form this year, unless there has been a change in your family circumstances.

If you would like to apply for the first time, applications are available on our school website csefapplicationform.pdf (whs.vic.edu.au).

Parents/carers wishing to apply for CSEF payments for 2023 must submit their application form to us school by 23 June 2023. Check with staff at the office if you are unsure, and please return completed forms to the school office as soon as possible. 

You can also download the form, and find out more about the program and eligibility, on the Department of Education and Training’s Camps, Sports and Excursions Fund | Victorian Government (www.vic.gov.au).