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Apply for Creative Communities Scheme – New Zealand

Deadline: 31-Aug-2024

Looking to bring your creative project to life? The Creative Communities Scheme (CCS) is here to help!

With funding available for a wide range of artistic ventures, from music and dance to visual arts and community workshops, this scheme supports more than 1,800 individuals and groups across the country each year.

Locally, the scheme is administered by the Ashburton District Council and they’re looking for arts projects that do at least one of the following:

  • Increase opportunities for local participation in the arts.
  • Support the diverse artistic expressions of their local communities.
  • Enable young people to engage with the arts.
Funding Information
  • There is no limit to how much you can apply for, but most CCS grants are under $2,000.
Eligible Projects
  • To get funding through CCS your arts project must do at least one of the following:
    • Participation – Create opportunities for local communities to engage with, and participate in local arts activities, for example:
      • Performances by community choirs, hip-hop groups, theatre companies, musicians or poets
      • Workshops on printmaking, writing or dancing
      • Creation of new tukutuku, whakairo or kowhaiwhai for a local marae
      • Exhibitions by local craft groups promoting weaving, pottery and carving
      • Festivals featuring local artists
      • Creation of a community film or a public artwork by a community
      • Artist residencies involving local artists or communities
      • Seminars for local artist development
    • Diversity – Support the diverse artistic cultural traditions of local communities, for example:
      • Workshops, rehearsals, performances, festivals or exhibitions in Māori or Pasifika heritage or contemporary art forms
      • Workshops, rehearsals, performances, festivals or exhibitions by local migrant communities
      • Arts projects bringing together groups from a range of different communities
      • Workshops, rehearsals, performances, festivals or exhibitions by groups with experience of disability or mental illness
    • Young people – Enable young people (under 18 years) to engage with, and participate in the arts, for example:
      • A group of young people working with an artist to create a mural or street art
      • A group of young people creating a film about an issue that is important to them
      • Printing a collection of writing by young people
      • Music workshops for young people
      • An exhibition of visual art work by young people
  • Your project must also:
    • Take place within the Ashburton District
    • Be completed within 12 months of funding being approved
    • Benefit local communities
    • Not have started or finished before CCS funding is approved
    • Not have already been funded through Creative New Zealand’s other arts funding programmes
Ineligible Projects
  • Fundraising activities
  • Developing galleries, marae, theatres or other venues or facilities
  • Local council projects
  • Projects which are mainly focused around other areas e.g. health, education or the environment and that only have a very small arts component
  • Arts projects in schools or other education institutions that are the core business of that institution or that are normally funded through curriculum or operating budgets
Eligibility Criteria
  • You can be an individual or a group. Individuals must be New Zealand citizens or permanent residents.
  • If you have already received CCS funding for a project, you must complete a report on that project before making another application, unless the project is still in progress.

For more information, visit Ashburton District Council.