Deadline: 1-Nov-22
The Manitoba is seeking applications for its Community Festivals and Events Program to provide rural and northern communities with operating grants towards organizing a festival that takes place over a minimum of two days.
The program supports events that encourage youth participation and leadership; reflect, celebrate, and profile the unique character of the community; foster a sense of identity and pride; and contribute to local tourism and economic activity.
These festivals must be recognized as the community’s signature annual event and promote the understanding, awareness and appreciation of their heritage, culture and identity.
Objectives
- To support the efforts of volunteers in organizing their community’s signature annual festival or celebration.
- To encourage communication and cooperation among community groups, businesses, and local governments in organizing and participating in the community’s signature annual event.
- To increase community participation, including youth participation, in a significant annual community event that celebrates and reflects the character of the community.
- To contribute to local tourism and/or other economic activity in the community.
- To raise the community’s understanding, awareness and appreciation of its heritage, culture, identity and other elements that foster a sense of identity and pride.
Funding Information
- Grants awarded are to a maximum of 10% of eligible revenues based on the event’s most recent financial statement to a maximum of $10,000.00. Total support from all provincial sources will not exceed 20% of total eligible revenues. Actual grants may be less than amounts requested and subject to availability of funds.
Eligibility Criteria
- The festival must take place in a rural or northern community and must be the community’s signature annual celebration – reflecting, celebrating and profiling the unique character of the local community, its heritage, culture and identity. The festival must have taken place for a minimum of two years prior and must not be eligible for ongoing financial assistance through other provincial government programs.
- Applicants must provide a report and financial statement for each of the last two years.
- All events and activities must be open and accessible to the general public.
- The festival must provide opportunities for all citizens, including youth, to participate as spectators, volunteers, or as part of the event’s programming. Provision of opportunities for youth leadership should be a particular feature.
- The festival must operate as an incorporated, non-profit organization or under the jurisdiction of an incorporated, non-profit organization.
- The festival must occur in the application year and must take place over a minimum two-day time period.
- Only one annual event per geographic community will be considered.
- The festival must demonstrate tangible financial and/or in-kind support from local government.
- In order to ensure organizational stability, clients are encouraged to develop an operating surplus or reserve appropriate to the size and scope of their operations. Use-of-surplus plans must be submitted should an accumulated surplus exceed 50% of annual revenues. A deficit reduction plan must be submitted in the event of an accumulated deficit.
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For more information, visit https://www.gov.mb.ca/chc/grants/heritage_grants.html