New Zealand: Regional Arts and Culture Grant – Business Capacity and Development

• strategic, business and marketing plans
• feasibility studies
• organisational development
• digital development activities

Funding Priorities

​They welcome grant applications that align to the following priorities:

• all Aucklanders can access and participate in arts and culture
• Auckland values and invests in arts and culture
• a network of vibrant arts and culture organisations and facilities
• arts and culture are intrinsic to Auckland’s ‘place-making’
• Auckland celebrates a unique cultural identity
• Auckland has a robust and flourishing creative economy.

Grant Value

• $3000 – $25,000

Types of projects funded by the grant

• Arts

Outcomes

• integrate arts and culture into the everyday lives, and
• create a culturally rich and creative Auckland.

Eligibility for Regional Arts and Culture Grants

• Your group or organisation is eligible for funding if it meets the criteria for regional funding, and does one or more of the following:
  • represents specific art forms at the regional level
  • fulfils a ‘sector infrastructure’ role for arts and culture in Auckland, like through strategic advocacy, capacity and capability building
  • delivers programming to an Auckland-wide audience
  • is an iwi or other Māori organisation, involved in arts and culture activity
  • delivers arts and cultural experiences to under-served populations
  • delivers arts and cultural experiences in non-traditional settings.
• To be considered ‘regional’, you must be able to show that your service, project or activity addresses regionally determined priorities. For example:
  • its outcomes cannot be delivered and managed at the local or multi-board level
  • it is of local impact and benefit, but of regional significance, and it would be unreasonable to expect the relevant local board(s) to meet the cost.
• It may be regional in terms of scale and/or significance:
  • the number of participants or users of the service, or the size of the audience
  • there will be clear benefits from coordinating decisions and activities at a region-wide level (e.g. operating a programme at multiple sites across Auckland)
  • there is another clear marker of regional significance (e.g. the project targets a regional ecological area).
• Your service, project or activity may be regional in terms of impact and/or reach:
  • accessible to anyone in Auckland regardless of their location
  • targets a specific population group that is clearly spread across the region, and has sufficient profile within that population group to attract participants or users from across the region.

For more information, visit Auckland Council.