Camps, Sports & Excursion Fund (CSEF) – for eligible & NEW health care card holders
Apply before 4th July
The Camps, Sports and Excursions Fund (CSEF) helps eligible families to cover the costs of school trips, camps and sporting activities.
If you have a valid means-tested concession card, or are a temporary foster parent, you may be eligible. A special consideration category also exists for asylum seeker and refugee families. Means-tested concession cards must be valid on the first day of Term 1, 2025 (Tuesday 28 January 2025) or Term 2, 2025 (Tuesday 22 April 2025).
A student aged 16 years and over who is considered a mature minor and holds a valid concession card is also eligible to apply.
Eligible families will receive a payment of $154 per year for primary school students and $256 per year for secondary school students. The funds will be paid directly to the school to be used towards camps, sports and excursion costs for the benefit of your child.
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, please contact the school office [email protected] ask for an application form. Please return completed application forms to the school office as soon as possible.
Important Change to the Program :
The Government has made an important change to the program for 2025. Families who have multiple children at the same school will be able to pool their allocated funding to use on one child or for one specific activity. This could help in situations where the costs for activities in a certain year level are higher than others.
Please check with the school office if you are unsure.
For more information about CSEF visit:
https://www.vic.gov.au/camps-sports-and-excursions-fund
Updates to School Saving Bonus
- Compass has now updated to include the ability to pay for events using funds from your child’s SSB balance.
Select this option on the payment screen. If there is insufficient balance to cover the full payment or no SSB payment option, please EMAIL the school at [email protected].
- SSB can be used for uniforms and textbooks until Monday 30 June 2025.
Any funds remaining after 30 June 2025, including online voucher amounts that have not been redeemed, will become a credit to use on school activities. However, the credit will not be available on your family account at our school until late July. To use any remaining SSB funds to cover the cost of school activities in July, please refer to the SSB online system and allocate the funds to school activities before 30 June 2025.
Please contact the school office if you are unsure of the SSB portal link or your child’s bonus code to transfer the funds to school activities.
- Pool Allocated Funds
Families who have multiple children at the same school will be able to pool their allocated funding to use on one child or for one specific activity. This could help in situations where the costs for activities in a certain year level are higher than others
If you have any question please contact the General Office.
