2025-2026 Community Participation Funding Programme on Equal Opportunities is now open for application

Deadline for submission: 31 March 2025 (Monday)

The Community Participation Funding Programme on Equal Opportunities (“Funding Programme”) provides funding support to eligible organisations to launch educational projects that engage different sectors of the community, raise awareness of Hong Kong’s anti-discrimination ordinances, and/or promote equal opportunity and inclusion of people of different gender, people with disabilities, people with family status, as well as people of different races.

The Funding Programme consists of two categories this year, namely “General Projects” and “Thematic Projects”.

A. General Projects (Funding limit at HK$100,000)

Open to projects designed to:

Raise awareness of any of the four anti-discrimination ordinances in Hong Kong, namely the Sex Discrimination Ordinance (Cap. 480), the Disability Discrimination Ordinance (Cap. 487), the Family Status Discrimination Ordinance (Cap. 527) and the Race Discrimination Ordinance (Cap. 602); and/or promote gender equality, disability equality and inclusion, family status equality, and/or racial equality and inclusion in general.

B. Thematic Projects (Funding limit at HK$150,000)

Open to projects with a specific focus on one of the themes set for the year. 

For 2025-26, the specific themes are:

1. preventing sexual harassment in the workplace; 
2. promoting accessibility and universal design in products, services and/or environments; 
3. promoting awareness of family status and/or family-friendly/breastfeeding-friendly employment practices; and
4. fostering racial inclusion in education and/or employment.

The completed Application Form of the Funding Programme shall be submitted by post or in person to the EOC Office by 31 March 2025, 5:45pm. Please read the Guidelines for Applications and the related Annexes before completing the Application Form.

The results of applications are expected to be announced in August 2025. Applicants are reminded to take this into account when they plan the project implementation timeline. 

The EOC will host two briefing sessions in the EOC Office in Wong Chuk Hang. Interested organisations are invited to attend the briefing sessions listed below by submitting the Briefing Session Enrolment Form. Attendees will be able to understand more about the Funding Programme, including the Guidelines for Applications and the funding requirements. 

1. 21 February 2025 (Friday), 10:30 – 11:30am (to be conducted in Cantonese)
2. 25 February 2025 (Tuesday), 3:30 – 4:30pm (to be conducted in English)