Content Round 1 2025/26

Use this form to apply for a CBF Content Grant. If you're applying for more than one project or program, please complete and submit a separate application form for each proposal.

The following links contain information to help you prepare your application:

• Sample Content grant application
• Content grant guidelines in a Word document
• Content grant application form in a Word document
• Checklist information you need to supply in your Content application
• Steps to success when applying for a Content grant webinar
• Key changes to the application forms 2024/25 webinar
• Grant objectives and outcomes webinar

Please note: do not use this form to apply for a Specialist Radio Programming grant - ethnic, First Nations and Radio Reading (RPH) programming. If you would like to apply for a Specialist Radio Programming grant you need to use a different form.

Use the Next Page and Previous Page buttons or the Form Navigation list on the right-hand-side to move between pages. This will automatically save your application.

Don't use the Forward or Back buttons on your website browser as you may lose your progress.

As you complete the form, your responses will determine which questions you will be required to answer. Questions that do not apply to your application will be automatically disabled.

Saving your application

You can start your application, save what you have done and return to it as many times as you like before the grant deadline. 

For further instructions on how to use this online form, please see the SmartyGrants Help Guide for Applicants. 

Submitting your application

Once you're happy with your responses, click to the Feedback and How to Submit page where you will find a Review button. You will be able to review your whole application here, download it to share with others and submit it when you are ready.

Need help?

Please let us know if something doesn't work or doesn't make sense. We are here to help you, You can contact us on:

Dean Linguey - 03 8341 5988 and dean@cbf.org.au
Radio stations and Remote Indigenous Media Organisations (RIMOs) in Queensland,  Western Australia, the Northern Territory and Tasmania.

Liz Landray - 03 8341 5944 and liz@cbf.org.au
Radio stations in New South Wales and the Australian Capital Territory, television stations and any independent producers or not-for-profit organisations looking to partner with a community broadcaster.

Sheah Sutton - 03 8341 5966 and sheah@cbf.org.au
Radio stations in South Australia and Victoria