Contemporary Music Development Grants for First Nations Industry Development (Australia)

Aims

• This funding aims to:
  • Prioritise and protect First Nations NSW music
  • Develop skills and capacity for First Nations NSW artists and acts
  • Upskill First Nations NSW industry professionals and music businesses in best practice and emerging trends
  • Improve industry standards
  • Build the profile of the NSW music industry
  • Cultivate innovation, collaboration and partnership
  • Support industry-led research and advocacy
  • Strengthen First Nations NSW communities

Funding Information

• Grant amount: $150,000.

Eligible Costs

• Paying salaries, wages and fees for staff, researchers, consultants, industry professionals and artists
• Venue hire, catering and production costs
• Travel and accommodation costs
• Marketing and promotion
• Administrative costs
• Buying equipment essential to your project, like instruments, hardware and software (up to $20,000).

Ineligible Costs

• Activities that do not enhance, build and grow NSW’s contemporary music industry or demonstrate a significant benefit to NSW industry
• Costs from before the advertised activity start date
• Activities that have received other NSW Government funding
• Activities that directly support the delivery or course requirements of an educational program or course
• Fundraising, donations, awards, prize money or competitions.

Eligible Projects

• Funding can support the following activity:
  • Skills, training and capacity building programs for artists, industry professionals and music businesses
  • Programs to upskill industry professionals and music businesses in best practice and emerging trends and technologies including AI, marketing and promotion, cultural literacy and safety
  • Programs and resources to improve well-being, support workplace and audience safety, accessibility, cultural safety and working with young people
  • Industry-led marketing campaigns to promote music in NSW
  • Initiatives that cultivate innovation, collaboration and partnerships locally and internationally
  • Industry-led research and advocacy

Eligibility Criteria

• This program is open to First Nations NSW led music businesses or organisations that demonstrate an established ongoing connection to community through their work
• Funding recipients must:
  • Have a governing body that is majority First Nations people
  • Be currently based in NSW or deliver a significant contribution to the NSW contemporary music sector
  • Be an incorporated entity or trust (including a trust with a corporate or individual trustee) and hold an Australian Business Number (ABN), Australian Company Number (ACN), or
  • Be registered with NSW Fair Trading under the Associations Incorporation Act 2009 or the Co-operatives National Law (NSW) set out in the appendix to the Co-operatives (Adoption of National Law) Act 2012.
• Applicants will need:
  • An active ABN (that’s your Australian Business Number)
  • A bank account with the same name as your ABN.
  • For the purpose of this program contemporary music refers to artists and acts performing new and original music.
  • Business or organisations with a primary focus in the below artforms are not supported through this program:
    • Experimental music and sound art
    • Contemporary classical, opera, choral and ensembles
    • Music theatre

Ineligibility Criteria

• Businesses or organisations not First Nations led
• Businesses or organisations not based in NSW, unless the proposal demonstrates a direct impact to the NSW contemporary music sector
• Applicants who have outstanding acquittals from previous NSW Government funding
• Applicants who are not music businesses or organisations

For more information, visit NSW Government.