Deadline: 01-Aug-21
The Toowoomba Regional Council has announced Cultural & Arts Support Grant Program for nurturing fledgling artists, supporting grassroots community arts and cultural activity and underpinning higher level arts and cultural development.
Toowoomba Regional Council aims 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.
Council also acknowledges this industry’s capacity to strengthen their region’s potential for tourism and economic development.
While the delivery of the Regional Arts Development Fund (RADF) program in partnership with Arts Queensland plays a major part in the development of quality art and arts and cultural practices across their regional community, many general types of arts and cultural activities are not eligible for RADF funding.
The broadly-held and informed opinion of their regional arts sector is that:
- most ‘grassroots’ community arts and cultural activities are vital to, and underpin, the wellbeing of higher level arts development; and
- a lack of ability to assist general arts and cultural needs will result in a ‘drought’ in artistic and cultural capacity building and bring about an environment of artistic and cultural isolation in their region.
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 their communities.
Examples of costs that may be eligible for funding include:
- professional / relevant artists’/cultural workers’ fees.
- production costs including:
- venue hire costs.
- relevant project specific professional services other than arts/cultural services.
- relevant project specific materials (other than artist’s materials).
- hire of relevant equipment.
- relevant project documentation costs.
Eligibility Criteria
Organisations can apply for a cultural and 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 Regional Council area.
- The organisation has an Australian Business Number (ABN).
- The application is for a project that does not form part of the core business of public and private educational institutions (primary, secondary and tertiary including Parents & Citizens and Parents & Friends Associations) and demonstrates broader community benefit.
Ineligibility
The following would not be eligible to apply:
- Individuals.
- For-profit companies, trusts and other organisations.
- Government, semi-government organisations and statutory authorities.
- Unions and student guilds.
- Research foundations.
- Professional associations.
- An organisation that has been granted approval for support through a Toowoomba Regional Council funding program for the same project.
- An organisation that has not acquitted an overdue TRC funded grant application.
For more information, visit https://www.tr.qld.gov.au/community-business/grants-funding/apply-by-category/9961