Foundation for Young Australians (FYA)

24/04/2026

📢 DEADLINE EXTENDED TO TUES 28 APRIL!

FYA is going through a transformation process to build on what we’ve always done: back young people who are challenging injustice and working towards a more just and equitable future, with integrity, and for the long term.

There’s more we’ll share about that soon, but as our first step we’re looking for young people (16–26) and First Nations people (any age) to help design FYA’s Change Crew — the group that will guide how our organisation changes.

This is a paid opportunity: three online sessions in May and June, $100 per session (up to $300).

The process is being led by Turnstone Collective, an Indigenous-owned consulting firm.

📅 Sessions: 6 May | 18 May | 10 June - 5–6:30pm AEST
⏰ Applications close this Tuesday 28 April! Apply ASAP
👉 Link in bio

Questions? Email [email protected]

20/04/2026

FYA is going through a transformation process to build on what we've always done: back young people who are challenging injustice and working towards a more just and equitable future, with integrity, and for the long term.

There's more we'll share about that soon, but as our first step we're looking for young people (16–26) and First Nations people (any age) to help design FYA's Change Crew — the group that will guide how our organisation changes.

This is a paid opportunity: three online sessions in May and June, $100 per session (up to $300).

The process is being led by Turnstone Collective, an Indigenous-owned consulting firm.

📅 Sessions: 6 May | 18 May | 10 June - 5-6:30pm AEST
⏰ Applications close this Wednesday 22 April!! Apply ASAP
👉 link in bio

Questions? Email [email protected]

31/03/2026

06/03/2026

Meet the 2025 Seeding Strength Grant Recipients! 💛🖤✊🏾🎉

This round uplifted big ideas and strong voices from young mob who are creating change for their communities.

We want to congratulate Fisher’s Oysters, Ngarrindjeri Ruwe Empowered Communities and Trans Mob Retreat for their outstanding applications. These projects hold strong visions for community healing and future leadership and will create lasting change across their communities and beyond.

More stories from these recipients coming soon

03/03/2026

Meet BDS Youth, one of our 2025 Youth Action and Wellbeing grant recipients!

BDS Youth, a youth-led organising collective grounded in solidarity with Palestine, brings together Palestinian and non-Palestinian young people to build a shared strategy, strengthen youth leadership and campaign for Palestinian liberation.

Read on and follow to keep up as this work continues to grow!

02/03/2026

Meet Silent Sounds of Survivors (SSOS), one of our 2025 Youth Action and Wellbeing grant recipients!

SSOS is a youth-led group based in Wodonga advocating for better adolescent mental health care across regional Victoria.

Their work centres lived experience and calls for inpatient mental health beds alongside long-term reform through their survivor-led campaign Beyond Beds.

Have a read about what they do and keep an eye on this space to learn more as their work continues to grow.

27/02/2026

Meet Third Culture, one of our 2025 Youth Action and Wellbeing grant recipients!

Third Culture is a youth-led organisation in the western suburbs of Naarm / Melbourne working to tackle racism in schools and create spaces where students feel safe and supported.

Their work focuses on building a Culturally Safe Schools Standard co-designed with young people to move beyond awareness and embed real structural change.

Have a read about what they do and keep an eye on this space to learn more as their work continues to grow.

26/02/2026

Meet With You We Can, one of our 2025 Youth Action and Wellbeing grant recipients!

With You We Can is a national lived-experience led network creating better responses to sexual violence in Australia. Their campaign for independent legal representation for victim-survivors seeks to achieve legal reform that protects dignity, wellbeing and meaningful participation in the criminal justice system.

Have a read about what they do and keep an eye on this space to learn more as their work continues to grow.

23/02/2026

Meet Strait Climate Action, one of our 2025 Youth Action and Wellbeing grant recipients!

Strait Climate Action is a Zenadth Kes / Torres Strait Islander youth-led group creating climate education resources in Meriam Mir and Torres Strait Creole, responding to the impacts communities are already living with across the islands.

Their work connects climate justice, language revitalisation, sovereignty and storytelling, ensuring knowledge is shared in language and shaped by lived experience.

Read on to learn more and follow their journey over the year ahead!

18/02/2026

Applications are open for FYA’s First Nations Governance Group!

Are you an Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander young person aged 18–35 who cares about community, governance and change? We want to hear from you.

This is a paid opportunity to lead and guide FYA’s First Nations work, strengthen cultural integrity and drive impact from the inside.

📅 Apply by Sun 15 March 2026
🔗 https://www.fya.org.au/apply-fngg/

03/02/2026

FYA has signed Talk Black's open letter, calling on the Australian Home Affairs Minister Tony Burke MP to do more to stop racist violence against First Nations people, after the terrorist attack on the Boorloo Invasion Day protest last week. Many of the young people that have taken part in FYA programs were there and have been impacted by both the attack and the double standards in the official response to it.

In addition to what is in the open letter, protest organisers are calling for:
• The WA Police, ASIO and the AFP to investigate this attack as a hate crime, as well as a terror offence.
• The WA Police Commissioner to urgently meet with the rally organisers.
• The Federal Government to expand the terms of the Royal Commission to cover all forms of racism and far-right extremism.
• The Federal Government to endorse and implement the Australian Human Rights Commission's National Anti-Racism Framework.

From Boorloo to Bondi, everyone living on this continent has the right to live, practice their culture and exercise their democratic rights free from hate crimes.

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