Applications for September 2025 now open
Apply to take part in the Yellow Flag Programme
Are you interested in applying to the Yellow Flag Programme in 2025?
Each year the Yellow Flag Programme will host an open call for schools who wish to apply to the programme.
We are currently open for applications for programmes beginning September 2025.
To apply click here
The deadline to apply is Friday 16th May, 2025.
Please note that due to current resources, the programme can only support a limited number of schools annually.
What is the Yellow Flag Programme?
The Yellow Flag Programme provides a practical series of 8 steps that brings issues of interculturalism, equality and diversity into the whole-school programme and allows schools to apply them to the day to day running of the school. It works with students, staff, management, parents and wider community groups so that issues of diversity and equality are not merely seen as “school subjects” but can be understood and taken outside the school setting into everyone’s personal lives. Similar to the Green Schools Programme, the Yellow Flag is an award scheme. On successfully completing the following 8 steps over a two year period, and being evaluated externally, the school is awarded its Yellow Flag in recognition of its work in promoting diversity & inclusion. The award is publicised locally, and the school can fly its flag with pride and use the logo on its official correspondence.
School Selection Criteria
The Yellow Flag Programme supports the inclusion of all students in school life, so that every child or young person has the opportunity to see their identity reflected in the learning environment. However, our limited resources mean that we must select schools with a diverse student population, and where the need for support around equality and inclusion is most urgent.
Primary and post primary schools are eligible to apply, but priority will be given to schools with:
- A high number of Traveller and/or Roma students, or schools who have no Traveller or Roma students, but who have demonstrated a commitment to working with those communities and celebrating their cultures;
- A high population of migrant and refugee students; and
- Diverse ethnicities represented in the student and teacher base.
Please do your best to outline the specific needs and challenges of your school in the application form, so that we can understand why you think your school community would benefit from our intervention
