Baw Baw Shire Council’s Arts and Culture Fund (Australia)

Deadline: 11-Nov-2024

The Baw Baw Shire Council is pleased to announce the Arts and Cultural Fund to help creatives in their work, focusing on their professional development and building on their creative work.

The fund will help creatives develop great work, grow their creative practice, and contribute to the local creative atmosphere – and this helps the whole community.

Aims

• Helps to grow creative projects in the community, adds value to the local creative community and/or to own individual work;
• Helps to develop the local arts community;
• Gives the wider community the chance to experience and/or participate in the arts;
• Creates opportunities for creatives to work together with other local creatives, residents and local community groups on projects.

Funding Information

• Eligible applicants can apply for a monetary grant of up to $2,000.
• You can only apply once in a 12-month period funding year (round 1 & 2 make up the funding year).

Eligible Projects

• The fund will support projects which achieve one or more of the following criteria:
  • Delivers creative projects or initiatives that meet goals in Baw Baw Shire Council’s Creative Communities Strategy.
  • Boosts the professional development or practice of creative practitioners and groups who reside and/or undertake their work primarily within the municipal boundary of Baw Baw Shire.
  • Shows broad community benefit.
  • Builds on the creative industry of the area and demonstrates clear benefit to the local creative sector.

Eligibility Criteria

• Residents of Baw Baw Shire or creative practitioners with a creative practice primarily located in Baw Baw Shire.
• Organisations and community groups partnering with local creative/s to develop a creative project which will boost the creative practitioner’s work and have broad community benefit.
• Projects which are located and delivered in Baw Baw Shire.
• Residents looking to build their professional development in the creative industries.
• The fund strongly encourages applicants from the creative industries serving youth and/or the First Nations community.
• Applicants under 18 years of age can apply but must have proof of consent from a parent/guardian. They will need to confirm in person with a parent/guardian should you be successful.
• They will only accept one submission per project, per funding year.

For more information, visit Baw Baw Shire Council.