Deadline: 18-Jul-25
The Welsh Government is requesting proposals for its Curriculum for Wales Grant Support Programme to maximise their contribution to Wales’ collective future and create a stronger, fairer, greener and more compassionate Wales.
The Curriculum for Wales Framework reflects Wales, its cultural heritage and diversity, its languages and the values, histories and traditions of the communities and all of the people.
The Curriculum for Wales expects a school curriculum to:
- be driven by purpose, understanding why learning matters is fundamental to developing meaningful curricula
- focus on progression that is defined by learners’ personal development
- select a range of purpose-driven content to enable progression, within a national framework of expectations
- use specific engaging content for learning as a vehicle to support the engagement of learners with the purpose of supporting them to progress
- plan for a broad range of assessment approaches that indicate progression rather than define progression in narrow way.
Aims
- The Welsh Government’s Programme for Government:
- presents the well-being objectives and focusses on ways to improve the lives of people in Wales both now and in the future.
- sets out their commitment to supporting schools and settings across Wales to implement the transformational Curriculum for Wales.
Focus Areas
- Literacy: in particular, improving literacy outcomes
- Mathematics and numeracy: shared understanding of progression (primary)
- Computing and digital skills
Priorities
- The Curriculum for Wales grant support programme has 6 overarching priorities:
- Curriculum design
- Literacy
- Mathematics and numeracy
- Science and technology
- Music
- Foundation learning
Funding Information
- Literacy: improving literacy outcomes: 2025 to 2026: £2,600,000
- Mathematics and numeracy: shared understanding of progression (primary): 2025 to 2026: £500,000
- Computing and digital skills: 2025 to 2026: £400,000
Eligibility Criteria
- You are eligible to apply if:
- your organisation has a track record in supporting learning and teaching in schools and settings and can demonstrate a robust understanding of the Curriculum for Wales
- you are able to provide support to schools in the language medium required by a school (Welsh or English) and present all support materials bilingually at the same time
- you are a group of organisations submitting a collaborative proposal, clearly identifying a lead organisation and setting out information on all the organisations involved who each meet the eligibility criteria.
Ineligibility Criteria
- You are not eligible if:
- you do not have the capacity to deliver suitable support to schools across Wales
- your organisation is already in receipt of Welsh Government funding for the curriculum support activity (for example, schools or local authorities already funded via the LAEG).
For more information, visit Welsh Government.