Student-led projects
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Student-led projects celebrating diversity, connection and belonging across the Flinders community.
Overview
2026 EOIs closedA program built around belonging.
Flinders Community Grants support student-led projects that create more inclusive, connected and welcoming campus communities.
The 2026 expression of interest round has closed. Now, this page is where you can explore the projects students helped shape and find events, workshops and activities to join.
The original 2026 EOI information is retained further down this page as a record of what the program invited students to propose and how projects were selected and supported.
Program at a glance
What’s on
Explore the projects.
National Reconciliation Week
Presented by Yungkurrinthi
Students came together across Flinders campuses to reflect, learn and celebrate culture through craft, conversation and community.
Culture and Connection in Psychology
Student idea by Kimbra
A student-led gathering for culturally diverse psychology students to connect, share experiences and discuss belonging, support and decolonising ideas within the psychology community.
Sex Ed
Student idea by Chelsea
A welcoming LGBTQIA+ focused sexual health event, open to everyone, combining practical information, creative activities, music and access to safer-sex resources.
Inclusive Sports Day
Student idea by Raymond
An inclusive sport and recreation event designed to support participation, wellbeing, confidence, teamwork and social connection for students of all abilities.
Disability and Neurodiversity Zine Workshop (online)
Student idea by Sudhashree
An accessible creative workshop inviting students to explore disability, neurodiversity, identity, strengths and lived experience through zine making.
Celebrating Queer Innovation
Student idea by Hussain
A celebration of queer creativity, culture and community featuring drag, conversation and a hands-on creative workshop.
Disability and Neurodiversity Zine Workshop (in person)
Student idea by Sudhashree
A supported in-person zine workshop using collage, drawing and making to explore disability, neurodiversity, identity, strengths and lived experience.
Neurodivergent Panel
Student idea by Louise
A lived-experience panel centring neurodivergent students and staff, exploring barriers to education, meaningful inclusion, belonging and self-advocacy.
Student-led by design
Ideas into action.
The Community Grants were created to back student ideas that build belonging, celebrate diverse identities and lived experiences, and create meaningful opportunities for students to come together.
About the grants
What the 2026 program set out to support.
Funding was offered for student-led ideas that build belonging for underrepresented communities, celebrate diverse backgrounds and bring people together at Flinders.
Who were projects intended to support?
Projects were asked to support, centre or meaningfully involve underrepresented student communities at Flinders. This included Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students; students with disability, including neurodivergent students; culturally and linguistically diverse students; LGBTQIA+ students; students experiencing socio-economic disadvantage; people of colour; regional, rural or remote students; first-in-family students; underrepresented genders; international students; carers; and students who are pregnant or parents.
2026 EOI record
How the original application process worked.
Expressions of interest for the 2026 Community Grants program are closed. This information is retained as a record of the original funding round.
What could students apply for?
- A workshop, forum or student-led learning activity
- A creative project such as a book, art exhibition, short film, performance or installation
- An event, gathering, celebration or activation
- A community resource, toolkit or guide
- Something unique that did not fit neatly into those categories
Who could apply?
- An individual student
- Part of a student group or collective
- Part of a student-led team
- A club applying for something beyond business as usual
- A staff member working in genuine partnership with students, where the idea was clearly student-led in purpose and design
How did the process work?
Share your idea: students submitted an expression of interest explaining what they wanted to do.
FUSA reviewed it: applications were reviewed on a rolling basis, with an aim to respond within two weeks.
Support was available: projects did not need to be fully figured out from day one. FUSA could help with planning, design, promotion, event support, logistics or advice.
Make it happen: approved projects moved into planning and delivery with support appropriate to the idea.
What couldn’t be funded?
- Retrospective funding
- Routine club operations or business-as-usual activity
- Projects without a clear student community benefit
- Coursework, assessment, conference attendance or research undertaken mainly for study
- Requests mainly focused on individual academic or professional development without broader student community impact
- Partner-supported proposals that were not clearly student-led
Thank you.
We’d like to thank Medibank for supporting the program. We really appreciate their support in helping student-led ideas become events, workshops and activities across the Flinders community.
