Deadline: 30-Nov-22
The NSW Government is accepting applications for Arts and Culture Priority Needs Program that is designed to complement existing support measures in place and longer-term community infrastructure recovery programs.
The aim of the Program is to prioritise funding to support assessment and planning and urgent smallscale repair and replacements for arts and cultural infrastructure assets most affected by the February – March 2022 floods.
Objectives
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Priority Needs Package objectives:
- Be informed and co-designed with and by communities to reflect the needs of impacted communities and to reduce the burden on applicants
- Incorporate a range of support measures to allow flexibility for applicants and that reflects community-specific capability and capacity
- Be based on evidence of impact to essential community assets to provide targeted support
- Be designed and delivered with a focus on supporting asset repair, rebuild and/or projects that include a focus on supporting future resilience
Funding is Available for?
- Damage and risk assessments, feasibility studies, planning, design and options for repair, rebuild, replacement of arts and cultural infrastructure assets that consider flood mitigation strategies and supporting potential future resilience,
- Protection and make safe works to ensure arts and cultural infrastructure assets are not further damaged; and
- Urgent small capital works on arts and cultural infrastructure assets to enable creative activity to continue.
Funding Information
- Funding requests can be between $5,000 and $500,000.
Eligibility Criteria
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Eligible Applicants
- Applicants must be an incorporated entity or trust (including a trust with a corporate or individual trustee) and hold an Australian Business Number (ABN), Australian Company Number (ACN), or be registered with NSW Fair Trading under the Associations Incorporation Act 2009 or another Act.
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An applicant must be one of the following entities:
- Existing funded Create NSW organisation clients
- Arts and cultural organisations (including service organisations)
- Local councils, including entities owned or controlled by local councils
- Regional Arts Development Organisations (RADOs) – RADOs may apply as a Funds Administrator for multiple projects in their region.
- For-profit organisations may be considered eligible applicants only where projects will deliver a demonstrated community benefit.
- A fund administrator may apply on behalf of an unincorporated organisation, sole trader, individual, or group.
- Applicants must have or be willing to purchase at least $20 million in public liability insurance.
For more information, visit Arts and Culture Priority Needs Program.
For more information, visit https://www.create.nsw.gov.au/funding-and-support/arts-and-culture-priority-needs-program/