Early Career Fund: Toi Tipu Toi Rea (New Zealand)

Funding Information

• Grant Amount: Up to $10,000.

Eligible Costs

• Create, present, or distribute your work
• Gain knowledge and new skills
• Pay a mentor

Eligibility Criteria

• Artists and practitioners who are:
  • New Zealand citizens or Permanent Residents, and at the early stage of their career.
  • You do not need a track record to apply.
• You can apply as:
  • An individual,
  • A group of collaborators.

Ineligibility Criteria

• Arts organisations, groups, and established artists cannot apply to this fund, which includes applying on behalf of an early career artist or to deliver activities such as mentoring to early career artists.

Application Requirements

• You can add extra documents and information to your application to:
  • Help show you are eligible for funding
  • Support the answers given in your application
  • Help their assessors understand your practice and the activities you want funded only include information that is recent and relevant
• You can add information to your application by:
  • Attaching files
  • Including weblinks
• Attached files must be under 10MB each and in the following formats:
  • .pdf
  • .doc or .docx (Word)
  • .xls or .xlsx (Excel)
  • .png, .jpg, .jpeg (images)
  • .txt
  • .mp3 or .m4a (audio)
• They don’t accept documents through Google Docs, Google Drive, Drop-box or they Transfer. They can accept audio, video, and other file formats via a web-link.
• Your weblinks must be to URLs where the content can be viewed or played online without needing further navigation, logins or downloading.

For more information, visit Creative New Zealand.