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

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.