Deadline: 16-Jan-2025
The Department of Local Government, Sport and Cultural Industries is inviting applications for the Arts Projects for Individuals and Groups to support the development and growth of a vibrant sector that promotes the participation and active engagement of Western Australian communities in high quality arts and cultural experiences.
This program supports individuals and groups to deliver projects that involve artists or creatives who maintain professional arts and creative practices.
Funding Categories
- Aboriginal Arts
- Promote or facilitate greater engagement of Aboriginal communities in the arts.
- Encourage the expression of traditional and contemporary Aboriginal culture, individuality, spirituality and empowerment through the arts.
- Encourage the involvement of Aboriginal arts expertise, skills, knowledge and resources.
- Support long term skills development goals for Aboriginal artists, arts workers and communities.
- Support Aboriginal cultural maintenance through arts-based activity.
- Deliver artistic and social outcomes for Aboriginal communities through the arts.
- Arts and Creative Business Development
- Support contemporary design, arts and creative businesses that are recognised as high quality to access new commercial markets, increase audience capacity and develop new networks.
- Raise the profile of contemporary design, arts and creative businesses through promotional and marketing activities.
- Support arts, cultural and creative businesses to strengthen and develop the economic and cultural growth of the WA creative industries.
- Support professional and skills development of contemporary designers, artists, arts and cultural workers at different points in the life cycle of their business to strengthen commercial viability.
- Develop commercial sustainability of creative businesses through support for increasing sales and business revenue.
- Creative Development
- Support the development of high quality, diverse creative practices, including community arts practices.
- Increase professional and skills development of artists, arts workers, cultural workers.
- Support creative industry professionals at different points in the life cycle of their careers.
- Create and present high quality and diverse arts, cultural and creative experiences for the people of WA.
- Reflect the State’s identity through telling WA stories and developing creative content in WA.
- Support international initiatives that promote both the artist and the State of WA.
- Facilitate collaboration, experimentation, excellence and growth for the WA arts and cultural sectors.
Funding Information
- Eligible applicants can apply for funding between $5000 and $80,000.
- This program may fund up to 80% of your activity costs. You must demonstrate at least 20% income, or your application will be ineligible.
- Your funding request will be the difference between your expenditure minus your income in your application budget.
Eligible Disciplines
- circus and physical theatre
- comedy
- community arts and cultural development
- cross-art form
- dance
- design
- interactive arts content
- literature and writing (limited to literary fiction, literary non-fiction, poetry, illustrated narrative)
- multi-arts festivals
- music
- music theatre and opera
- other performing arts
- theatre
- visual arts.
What can’t you apply for?
- projects or activities that do not involve or benefit Western Australian practicing artists, creatives, or arts or cultural workers
- purchase of capital equipment including instruments, equipment, software, licences, subscriptions, computers, tablets (iPads) and/or uniforms
- capital works such as construction or purchasing of studios, work spaces or gallery spaces
- activities already funded by the department through any of our funding programs
- activity relating to radio broadcasting
- display, restoration or conservation of cultural and/or historical material
- costs of manufacturing and/or producing prototypes
- activities relating to podcasts and audiobooks that do not involve creative arts practitioners
- fundraising, competitions, prizes and trophies
- the work of State Government or Commonwealth Government departments
- activity that will be academically assessed or any school curriculum based activity
- facsimiles, genealogical works and histories of local governments, clubs, districts and organisations
- activities related to an individual’s membership in a national organisation
- ongoing staffing or operational costs
- digital games development activities
- film and television activities such as:
- the development or production of narrative shorts or features, pilots for television series, web series, mainstream animation for example conventional character-based narrative cartoons
- documentaries, including documentaries on the arts
- screenwriting activities or script development for film and television
- stand-alone documentation activities
- education activities, or activities where members of the public take part, where the main or only art form being used is film or digital, unless it’s in support of an artist’s work
- film festivals, unless they support works created by practicing artists.
Who can apply?
- Individuals and groups (unincorporated bodies/partnerships) that deliver arts projects are welcome to apply to this program however:
- individuals must have Australian citizenship or permanent resident status
- groups including unincorporated bodies, partnerships and individuals informally collaborating on an activity must be based in Australia
- organisations applying for funding must apply through the Arts Projects for Organisations program
- applications to this program cannot be auspiced/administered by an organisation
- individuals being auspiced by an organisation must apply through the Arts Projects for Organisations program
- if you are applying on behalf of Aboriginal people you must provide evidence of significant Aboriginal involvement in the conception, development of and participation in the activity. Applicants are strongly encouraged to contact the department to discuss how this can be demonstrated prior to applying
- although WA residency is not a requirement to apply for a grant, if you are applying from outside WA you will need to show the benefits to WA artists, creatives, arts or cultural workers in your application.
Ineligibility Criteria
- Your application will be ineligible if you:
- are an organisation
- do not provide any support material
- do not adhere to budget requirements including requesting more than 80% of your project cost
- start the activity before the eligible start date
- submit an application late
- are requesting funding for an activity that has already had 2 application attempts per financial year regardless of applicant
- exceed application limit to the Arts Projects for Organisations and Arts Projects for Individuals and Groups programs (no more than 2 submissions per financial year)
- have any key personnel with an overdue acquittal report
- are a staff member of the Department of Local Government, Sport and Cultural Industries (staff of portfolio organisations may apply subject to meeting the code of conduct and Secondary Employment Policy)
- request funding that exceeds the funding cap of the program
- apply for activity that is delivered as part of an educational institution’s curriculum or will be academically assessed.
For more information, visit Department of Local Government, Sport and Cultural Industries.