Deadline: 24-Jul-2025
Event organisers and businesses are invited to start planning to apply for the Drought Relief Regional Event Fund to host events in South Australia’s drought-affected regions.
Aims
- This Fund Aims To:
- Encourage economic activity in region
- Engage community, foster connection, and support resilience in regions hardest impacted by drought Increase collaboration and partnerships among regional stakeholders, government and commercial partners to deliver stronger outcomes for their region
- Drive regional visitation in the immediate term and repeat visitation in the long term
Funding Information
- Funding will be provided as a single year agreement.
- Events will receive between $25,000 and $75,000 in financial support.
- They understand communities are struggling now, so events that occur in the next 12 months will be prioritised.
Uses of the Fund
- Use of Funding Events that receive funding must demonstrate their ability to bolster economic benefit to a region and its community through any of the following efforts:
- Enhancing the engagement of local suppliers, contractors and businesses to deliver the event
- Purchasing of local products for use within the event or its presentation
- Marketing costs associated with the event that increase awareness and visitation
- Concessions provided to primary producers
- Engagement of short term (up to six months) specialised personnel to further develop the event and/ or market the event
Eligibility Criteria
- Events, festivals and activations will be eligible for funding by meeting the below criteria.
- This fund supports events that:
- Are leisure tourism events
- Have a minimum of 500 attendees
- Generate event-specific visitor expenditure from intrastate and/or interstate markets
- Are strategically important to their tourism region
- Align with the objectives in the South Australian Regional Visitor Strategy 2025
- Contribute to the cultural and social fabric of the region
- Are financially viable with a sustainable management model
- Relate to the State’s tourism initiatives as highlighted in the South Australian Visitor Economy Sector Plan 2030
- This fund supports events that:
Ineligibility Criteria
- The following types of events are not eligible:
- Business events (conferences, seminars, expos, symposiums etc)
- Agriculture events
- Trade shows
- Award ceremonies
- Firework displays
- Anniversaries/centenaries, commemorative events.
- Christmas Pageants
- South Australian rotational events
- Tours
- Open gardens/Open days
- Dedicated markets
- Reunions
- Charity events or fundraising activities
For more information, visit business.gov.au