The 2025-26 round of the Funding Scheme on the Promotion of Family Education is open for applications from now to October 28, the Home & Youth Affairs Bureau announced today.

Launched by the bureau and the Family Council last year, the scheme subsidises non-profit-making community family education projects. By doing so it aims to raise public awareness of family education and its importance, promote family values, and enhance social harmony and the well-being of families.

Applications are invited from interested eligible bodies and non-governmental organisations.

The scheme covers various themes, including education for new parents, parent-child education, maintenance of family relationships, strengthening of family cohesion and solidarity, inheritance of good family values and traditional virtues, and other marriage-related subjects, in order to meet the needs of different families.

Applicants may also apply for funding to organise suitable projects with other family-related themes, having regard to specific community needs or concerns.

Proposed projects may feature more than one theme provided that the themes are family-related.

The funding cap for 12-month and 18-month projects is $800,000 and $1,200,000 respectively.