Deadline: 19-May-24
The Government of South Australia’s Department of the Premier and Cabinet is currently accepting applications for the Multicultural Festival Grants program to support eligible multicultural community organisations to participate in the annual Multicultural Festival.
The Multicultural Festival Grants support community groups to participate in the Multicultural Festival. The purpose of the funding is to contribute towards the costs associated with participating in the event.
Community groups from all eligible South Australian multicultural communities are encouraged to participate and apply for a grant, whether the community group is large or small, well known, established, or a newly arrived and emerging community.
The 2023-24 Multicultural Grant Program features the following streams of funding to support our multicultural communities:
- Celebrate Together – Grants to assist multicultural organisations to host festivals and events to celebrate cultural diversity
- Expand Together – Grants to assist multicultural organisations to expand their capacity by upgrading community facilities or purchasing equipment to meet the needs of culturally and linguistically diverse communities
- Community Language School Infrastructure Grants – Grants to assist community language schools to upgrade or develop community-owned facilities.
Funding Information
- There are three categories of grants available in 2024:
- Performance grants of up to $500 (Five hundred dollars only)
- Activity grants of up to $500 (Five hundred dollars only)
- Stall grants of up to $250 (Two hundred and fifty dollars only)
Eligible Projects
- Performance
- Dance, song, music, or a combination of these.
- Activity
- Demonstrations, come and try activities, and workshops.
- Stall
- Cultural food and drinks, cultural displays or sales, and small cultural demonstrations or activities.
Important Requirements
The following applies to all applications in every category of the Multicultural Festival Grants:
- Organisations must ensure that their performances, activities and stalls promote Australia’s multicultural diversity and its model of integration and social cohesion.
- Participating groups will be required to adhere to all risk management, Work Health and Safety, Safe Food Handling requirements, City of Adelaide Guidelines, and COVID Safe requirements at the time of the event.
- Community group representatives and group coordinators will be required to attend mandatory information sessions in the lead up to the event.
- Community group representatives are required to share all relevant information with their group members who are participating on the day.
- Participating groups will be required to submit a detailed online Requirements Form for approval by the deadline.
- All community group members participating on event day will be required to complete an online Pre-event Registration Form.
- Participating groups must provide and seek approval for all printed materials to be used and/or displayed at the event, prior to the event.
Who can apply?
- To be eligible for funding, multicultural organisations must:
- be non-government and not-for-profit, and incorporated under the Associations Incorporation Act 1985, or
- an Australian Public Company Limited by Guarantee under the Corporations Act 2001, or
- a Statutory Authority established through an Act, or registered with the Australian Charities and Not-for-Profit Commission with a comparable legal status.
- have a registered Australian Business Number (ABN)
- provide satisfactory evidence that their core purpose is to deliver initiatives, services, or support for culturally and linguistically diverse communities in South Australia
- be South Australian based
- Not for profit multicultural groups that are unincorporated or do not have an ABN may be sponsored by an eligible multicultural organisation who applies on their behalf.
- There is no limit to the number of times an eligible organisation may sponsor other organisations.
Who can not apply?
- The following are not eligible for funding:
- organisations that have outstanding acquittal reports for previously awarded grants
- educational institutions or related representative bodies, e.g., schools and/or their parents’ associations, universities, and for-profit childcare centres
- individuals or organisations applying on behalf of an individual
- Commonwealth, State or Local Government department and agencies
- organisations that have demonstrated religious or political advocacy that is not aligned with intercultural cohesion.
For more information, visit Government of South Australia.
