- 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.
Open through to 30 June 2024. The fund provides a total of $150,000 to help bolster the tourism industry within the region.
Closes 23 October 2023. Connections Through Culture (CTC) is a grant scheme by the British Council to support artistic collaboration and exchange between creative professionals and arts organisations in East Asia (including Australia).
The Australia Council for the Arts in now Creative Australia. Here’s their latest funding and fellowship rounds.
Closes 22 October 2023. The Carstairs Grant aims to support socially-engaged art projects that embrace participatory and collaborative experiences and bring participants into active dialogue with the artist/s in order to involve audiences beyond the art community.
Closes 22 September, 2023. The latest round of the Volunteer Grants Program is open for eligible not-for-profit community organisations, with $66,225 being allocated to the Calare electorate for the region’s wonderful volunteers!
Closes 21 August & 18 December, 2023. Community organisations across the state are encouraged to apply for funding under the NSW Government’s Infrastructure Grants program to enhance local services and improve residents’ quality of life.
APRA AMCOS and the Live Music Office are currently seeking Expressions of Interest from local councils to participate in Live and Local – a Live Music Development program for local communities.
Closes 29 October 2023.Skills Development Grants provide funding to volunteer museums and museum networks for regional or state focused skill development training and networking events.
Closes 29 October or when funds are exhausted. Quick response skill development grants for workers in volunteer managed museums and Aboriginal cultural spaces throughout NSW.
Still open, contact us. Arts OutWest are offering micro grants to arts, heritage and creative industries practitioners, groups and businesses impacted by floods or other natural disasters.
You may be eligible to receive up to $50,000 if your business or not-for-profit organisation has suffered direct damage as a result of the NSW storms and floods in August and September 2022 onwards.
If your business or not-for-profit has been affected by recent disasters (including the floods) there are some options for support (grants and loans) from the NSW government.
If your business has been affected either directly or indirectly by the recent floods or other disasters (ie gas outage, landslides, road closures, flash flooding, slow rising waters etc) and this is having an impact on your ability to operate…