Apprenticeship scholarship program

This program improves apprenticeship retention by ensuring practical support is available when it’s needed most. 

Scholarships support women and gender-diverse people in non-traditional trade apprenticeships through financial assistance, mentoring and wrap-around support, helping ease cost-of-living pressures and strengthen the networks that enable apprentices to stay, learn and thrive in their trade. 

The project also collates crucial data on the lived experiences of women completing Apprenticeships, feeding critical information to industry and government.

Objectives

• Retain women in trade Apprenticeships
• Provide women struggling with cost-of-living pressures/necessitous needs with financial aid.
• Provide mentorship, connection and wrap around support.
• Collect and disseminate data to create better understanding of the lived experience of female apprentices
• Create heightened level of awareness of the issues and barriers that women face in taking on and completing apprenticeship.
• Profile incredible women completing Apprenticeships

Using a collective giving philosophy, the Program is funded by Employers, Industry bodies and Philanthropic organisations from across Australia.