Creative Communities
Scheme
What can be funded?
The Creative Communities Scheme is a project based scheme
and is not intended for ongoing arts funding on an annual
basis.
The Creative Communities Scheme provides funding for all art forms, including the following:
- Language, arts and literature
Includes oral expression, poetry, drama, fiction, non-fiction
and whaikorero.
- Performing arts
Includes dance, opera, music, mixed media, puppetry, theatre, kapa haka, waiata and
taiaha.
- Visual arts
Include fine arts, camera arts, design arts, electronic arts, mixed media, raranga and toi whakairo.
To be eligible for Creative Communities funding, projects must:
- take place within Waitakere City.
- produce benefits that are largely experienced within Waitakere
City.
For a regional activity, project or event, funds may be applied for to cover the proportion of activity that will benefit the people of Waitakere City (for example, undertaking a large festival close to Waitakere City boundaries).
Funding is available for a wide range of purposes such as events, materials, seminars and equipment. For equipment, a maximum of 50 per cent of the cost of the item can be funded.
Applicants who make some contribution to the cost of the
overall proposal will be considered more favourably - particularly if a large amount of money is being requested.
What will not be funded
- Learning a language
- Facility development
- Purchase of art works for galleries
- Ongoing administrative costs that are not related to a specific project
- Repayment of debt (or interest on a debt)
- School programmes (which would normally be funded through the ongoing curriculum operating budget)
- Costs incurred prior to applications being assessed
- Catering costs
- Fundraising costs
- Applications from groups who received funding in the previous year but did not complete accountability requirements
- Salary for ongoing administration services
- Prize money
- Local authority projects normally funded from the
authorities' own resources
- Retrospective project costs (i.e for projects
already completed)
- Projects where the outcome is not arts related.
If an application is not eligible for funding, a member of staff will contact the applicant and discuss whether it is possible to change the application so that it is eligible, or
to advise of alternatives.
Who will assess
applications
The Creative Communities
Scheme Allocation Subcommittee assesses
all applications. The Subcommittee is made up of at least:
- One City Councillor
- One professional artist (nominated annually by the Lopdell House Society
Inc.)
- One representative from each of the two local Community Arts Councils
- One representative from the business sector
- Two representative from the Maori community
- One representative from the Pacific Islands community
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