Deadline: 05-Mar-2024
The City of Sydney has announced the Creative grants to supports cultural and creative activity in their communities.
This program supports projects and initiatives that contribute to Sydney’s cultural life, provide opportunities for creative participation, enliven public spaces, and strengthen the sustainability and capacity of their cultural and creative industries.
The program funds projects and initiatives that align with priorities in their creative city cultural policy and action plan 2014–2024 and live music and performance action plan.
Funding Priorities
- The funding will prioritise projects that:
- promote local culture and stories
- explore aspects of Sydney’s history
- celebrate Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities and culture
- represent the cultural and social diversity of their community
- increase access to creativity and culture for the city’s communities
- encourage cultural organisations and artists to locate and operate in Sydney
- address challenges facing the creative industries and cultural sector.
- They encourage applications from organisations that support Aboriginal and Torres and Strait Islander communities and culture, including Aboriginal community-controlled organisations and networks.
Funding Information
- Cash funding from $10,000 to $50,000 per year is available, for a one-year program or multi-year funding (up to 3 years).
- Value-in-kind in the form of street banner and venue hire fee waiver is also available.
- Applicants can apply for up to $5,000 worth of capital expenditure or equipment purchase.
Eligibility Criteria
- To be eligible an applicant must operate within the City of Sydney’s local government area or be able to demonstrate significant benefits for the area’s residents, workers and/or visitors.
- These individuals and organisations can apply:
- not-for-profit organisations
- for-profit organisations
- sole traders
- individuals or unincorporated community groups auspiced by a not-for-profit or for-profit that is eligible to apply in their own right.
- If you work with an auspicing organisation, they encourage you to choose one that is relevant to the sector and that can support the development of the proposal.
Ineligible
- Funding is not available for:
- operational costs or overheads for the core business of an organisation
- project that are a festival or event
- projects that directly contravene the eligibility and ethics framework or existing city policies.
For more information, visit City of Sydney.