- We provide advice and information about arts funding (phone, email, in person)
- We help connect people in our region to funding opportunities
- We assist people to navigate funding applications
- We write letters of support for applications
- We run funding and grant writing workshops
- We can auspice (financially manage) funding for suitable groups and artists. See our auspicing policy.
Below are some of the latest arts funding opportunities available to people in our region. Follow us on Facebook for opportunities as soon as they become available.
Closes 27 September 2022. Applications for the $150 million Regional Tourism Activation Fund Round 2 are now open, with grants of up to $20 million available for eligible projects.
Opens 1 September. Closes Friday 30 September 2022. The Fellowships Program is an investment in the development of artistic and creative practice.
Round 1 closes 29 August 2022. Create NSW’s Arts and Cultural Funding Program provides funding opportunities for arts and cultural organisations, professional artists and arts/cultural workers across a wide range of artforms and disciplines.
Closes 15 August 2022. The Project Grants will fund high-quality arts projects benefitting regional or remote artists, arts workers, audiences and communities.
Applications close Thursday 4 August 2022 at 5pm. Plus1 is our dollar-for-dollar matched fundraising program, designed to boost the fundraising efforts of small to medium not-for-profit arts organisations.
Closes 8 August 2022. Grants will be available to fund new infrastructure or to upgrade existing cultural infrastructure to make existing spaces fit for purpose.
Closes 10 August. Applications for Community Financial Assistance are NOW OPEN! If you’re part of a community group which needs extra funding for an event or project then this fund is for you!
Closes 30 October 2022 or when funds are exhausted. Quick response skill development grants for workers in volunteer managed museums throughout NSW.
Closes 24 August 2022 .The $24 million Regional NSW – Business Case and Strategy Development Fund supports local councils, joint organisations of councils, not-for-profit, industry and Aboriginal community groups
Closes 9 August 2022. It aims to help the NSW community rediscover the culture, events and people that shaped transport over the past 160 years, as well as assist with the restoration and conservation of NSW’s valuable heritage assets.
Closes 6 September. Considering international professional development? Grants support emerging artists of any medium to undertake travel and develop their practice.