Deadline: 01-Aug-2024
The Toowoomba Regional Council is offering grants to support and promote regional arts and cultural development, as it recognises the significant contribution vibrant arts and cultural programs, events, activities and pursuits can make to enhancing quality of life and promoting community pride.
Principles
- The Cultural and Arts Support Grant Program (CAS) seeks to respond to Council’s vision, values and goals, as outlined in the Corporate Plan 2024-2029, by supporting foundational community arts and cultural activities. Community members can participate by identifying opportunities for arts, cultural expression and opportunities to develop creative industries.
- The program will prioritise projects that
- increase visibility and recognition of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultures
- show the broadest community participation in any outcomes
- increase participation from outside greater Toowoomba
- develop new work with a clear connection to their place, histories, and communities
- provide opportunities for audiences, including the region’s residents, workers and visitors, to engage with creativity, self-expression, learning and cultural participation
- increase opportunities for access through Council’s broader cultural priorities as outlined in Connecting through Creativity – Toowoomba Region Cultural Strategy 2023 – 2028 (E.g. live music and performance activity in support of the “Live and Local” Strategy etc.).
Funding Information
- Funding assistance (to a maximum of $ 4,000) is available for up to 75 per cent of the total project costs (excluding GST) per project, event or activity (subject to available funds).
Eligible Projects
- Any project, event or activity which has an art or cultural theme or outcome that:
- has a clear broad community benefit or is focused on maintaining the ‘spirit’ and identity of communities within the Toowoomba Region Council area.
- develops and enhances artistic or cultural capacity of a group’s talents within the communities.
Ineligible Projects
- The following are not eligible for funding:
- projects, events or activities which have a for-profit, political or overt self-promotional agenda.
- projects, events or activities that are scheduled to start prior to the applicant being notified of grant funding approval.
- recurrent funding for arts organisations.
- murals.
- accredited study, training or university courses.
Eligibility Criteria
- Organisations can apply for a Cultural Arts Support Grant if:
- The organisation is an eligible community organisation or is under the auspices of an eligible community organisation as defined in the Community Grants Policy.
- The organisation operates or provides services within the Toowoomba Region Council area.
- The organisation has an Australian Business Number (ABN).
- Individuals can apply for a Cultural Arts Support Grant in collaboration with a community organisation which is eligible or in collaboration under the auspices of an eligible community organisation as defined in the Community Grants Policy.
- Educational institutions cannot apply for funding but they can auspice applications for individuals or non-eligible organisations if the application is for a project that does not form part of the core business of their institution (public and private primary, secondary and tertiary including Parents & Citizens and Parents & Friends Associations) and demonstrates broader community benefit that reflects the CAS program priorities.
Ineligible
- The following, are not eligible to apply:
- Individuals without an auspicing organisation.
- For-profit companies, Trusts and other organisations.
- Government, semi-government organisations and statutory authorities.
- Unions and student guilds.
- Research foundations.
- Professional associations.
- Educational institutions on their own behalf.
- An organisation that has been granted approval for support through a Toowoomba Region Council funding program for the same project.
- Recipients who have previously defaulted on the conditions of funding.
- An organisation that has not acquitted an overdue TRC funded grant application.
For more information, visit Toowoomba Region Council.