Creativity and Wellbeing for Young People Grant Program (Australia)

Deadline: 06-Feb-2025

The Department of Local Government, Sport and Cultural Industries and Healthway recognise the importance of providing opportunities for children and young people to engage in authentic creative and artistic experiences, promoting positive social and emotional wellbeing.

The program will support the engagement of creative practitioners to use the arts as a vehicle to reach priority communities and increase opportunities for young people to engage in continuous creative activities to encourage agency, creativity, connection and resilience while supporting their overall mental, social and emotional wellbeing.

Program Objectives

• Provide opportunities for participation and engagement in arts and creative activities for young people in Western Australia.
• Foster positive social, emotional and mental wellbeing outcomes for young people participating in arts and creative activities.
• Increase the long-term sustainability of employment opportunities for artists delivering and creating work with young people.
• Increase accessibility and engagement of creative experiences for young people with a particular focus on those who identify as: Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander, Culturally and Linguistically Diverse (CaLD), LBGTQIA+, or are impacted by a level of socio-economic disadvantage.

Funding Information

• Eligible applicants will be able to apply for up to $75,000 for projects and/or programs.
• This program may fund up to 80% of your activity costs. You must demonstrate at least 20% income (either in-kind or cash), or your expression of interest will be ineligible.

What can you apply for?

• Creativity and Wellbeing for Young People supports projects and/or programs that provide opportunities for participation and engagement in arts and creative activities for young people in Western Australia.
• This may include:
  • artist residencies/workshops
  • attending arts and/or cultural experiences with demonstrated links to extended engagement

What can’t you apply for?

• activity already funded by the Department of Local Government, Sport and Cultural Industries (DLGSC)
• activity already funded by Healthway
• commercial workshops
• projects that are a continuation of an already existing work in progress
• events (including but not limited to festivals, fetes and productions)
• projects or activities that do not involve or benefit Western Australian based practicing artists, creatives or arts or cultural workers
• purchase of capital equipment (including instruments, computers, tablets (iPads) and/or uniforms, including technical website development costs)
• capital works such as construction, modification or purchasing of studios, workspaces or gallery spaces
• activity that will be academically assessed or any school curriculum-based activity
• digital games development activities
• activities relating to podcasts and audiobooks that do not involve creative arts practitioners
• activities relating to radio broadcasting
• travel outside of Western Australia
• fundraising, competitions, prizes and trophies
• the work of State or Federal government departments
• sitting fees for committees
• ongoing organisational and staffing operational costs.

Program Activity

• Funded activity will:
• Deliver a series of repeat creative/artistic engagements for children and/or young people.
• Demonstrate how the activity supports mental, social and emotional wellbeing of participants.
• Engage with a target group who identify as one or more of the key priority areas:
  • early childhood and their guardians
  • children (ages 5-12)
  • adolescent (ages 13 – 19)
  • Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander
  • reside in rural, remote or regional Western Australia
  • experience a level of disadvantage (physical, mental impairments, low-socio economic, minority and CaLD groups, educational disadvantage)
  • young people considered as ‘at risk’
  • ­LBGTQIA+
• Take place outside school environment/after school hours (i.e. not aligned to curriculum)

Who can apply?

• Applications are open to:
  • Western Australian-based arts and/or cultural organisations
  • Western Australian-based creative practitioners
  • local government authorities
  • Western Australian-based not-for-profit community organisations and/or not-for-profit community service organisations.
  • Must have a Western Australian office, or be currently residing in Western Australia, with a Western Australian address.

For more information, visit Department of Local Government, Sport and Cultural Industries.