Grant funds can be used to pay the professional project staff supporting a Veteran RPL Grant Project, to fund academic staff to assess the LMPs, and may be shared with their project supporting partner organisations.  They can also be used to establish the systems required to support such a program.  

Grants can often come with sufficient funds for one project officer, but with only enough funding to pay for a limited amount of the substantial academic time that is required for the assessments of the LMPs. Given this, consideration should be given to submitting grant applications with multiple targets over several years, to enable a Veteran RPL Project to meet successful completion over a large number of courses. 

A line-by-line budget reconciliation must be reported back to the DVA at grant completion, and this would normally include a financial declaration, copies of receipts, contracts or proof of outgoings.  They will usually also require a progress report at least once during the grant period. 

A process of reimbursing the faculties for the time spent on the grant assessment work may need to be established in order to gain their support, and this should be factored into any initial budgeting. 

GST paid on any services e.g., website design, would be in addition to the grant amount total.