Creative Communities NZ

Each year Creative New Zealand provides funding to city and district councils for distributing in their area. The scheme supports more than 1,800 projects every year. Applications are made directly to Wairoa District Council.

Please click here for more information about the Creative Communities Scheme on the Creative NZ website.

Next Funding Round OPENS October-November 2018

ARTISTS AND ARTS GROUPS

Applications for financial assistance from Creative New Zealand are now being called for.

There are three funding criteria under the Creative Communities Scheme:

1. Participation
Create opportunities for local communities to engage with and participate in local arts activities
2. Diversity
Support diverse artistic cultural traditions of local communities.
3. Young People
Enable young people (under 18 years of age) to engage with, and participate in the arts.

Applicants should be resident in the Wairoa District Council area and your project must:
● Take place within the Wairoa district and benefit local communities
● Be completed within 12 months of funding being approved
● Not have started or finished before CCS funding is approved
● Not have already been funded through Creative New Zealand’s other arts funding programmes

Application forms and full details of project and financial criteria are available. If any help is required with filling out application forms please contact:

Gay Waikawa
Wairoa District Council Office
Coronation Square
P O Box 54
WAIROA 4160

Phone (06) 838-7309
Email gay@wairoadc.govt.nz
Applications OPEN October-November 2018

There are three funding criteria under the Creative Communities Scheme:

1. Participation
   Create opportunities for local communities to engage with and participate in local arts activities.
   
   
2. Diversity
   Support diverse artistic cultural traditions of local communities.
   
   
3. Young People
   Enable young people (under 18 years of age) to engage with, and participate in the arts.

Applicants should be resident in the Wairoa District Council area and your project must:

• Take place within the Wairoa district and benefit local communities
• Be completed within 12 months of funding being approved
• Not have started or finished before CCS funding is approved
• Not have already been funded through Creative New Zealand's other arts funding programmes

Please download the Application form from our 'related documents' section at the bottom of this page. The application form must be downloaded in order to fill it in on your computer. If any help is required with filling out application forms please contact:

Gay Waikawa
Wairoa District Council Office
Coronation Square
P O Box 54
WAIROA 4160

Phone (06) 838-7309
Email gay@wairoadc.govt.nz

Local arts funding scheme

Are you involved in an arts project, festival, performance or workshop?

If so, Wairoa District Council along with Creative Communities New Zealand are giving you the opportunity to apply for funding in the arts.

The purpose of the Creative Communities Scheme is to increase participation in arts in the Wairoa district and increase the range and diversity of arts available to communities.

About the scheme

Wairoa District Council administers the Creative Communities Scheme, which is funded by Creative New Zealand. Creative New Zealand is a central government agency and is New Zealand's main organisation for funding of the arts.

The purpose of the Creative Communities Scheme is to increase participation in arts in the Wairoa district and increase the range and diversity of arts available to communities.

There are two funding rounds per year:

• March/April and
• October/November.

Decision making

Members of Council's Assessment Committee are:

• Iryna Robson (Chairperson)
• Gail Menzies
• Uon Malis Men
• Zach Stark
• Matiu Barlett

Who can apply?

You can apply for funding through Creative New Zealand as long as your project meets all of the following:

• Individuals or groups can apply.
• Individuals must be New Zealand citizens or permanent residents.
• Eligibility for the Creative Communities Scheme

If you have already received funding from CCS for a project, you must complete a report on that project before making another application, unless the project is still in progress.

To be eligible for the Creative Communities Scheme, your project must:

• take place within the city or district where the application is made
• be completed within 12 months of funding being approved
• benefit local communities
• not have started or finished before CCS funding is approved
• not have already been funded through Creative New Zealand's other arts funding programmes.

Types of project funded

Projects that get funded do at least one of the following:

• encourage participation — they create opportunities for local communities to engage with, and participate in local arts activities
• support diversity — they support the diverse artistic cultural traditions of local communities
• enable young people — they enable young people (under 18 years) to engage with, and participate in the arts.

How much can I apply for?

The CCS is not a large arts funding avenue for significant arts related projects. Nationally, grants made under the CCS are mostly under $2,000 per project.

If you need to apply for over $8,000 you should consider discussing your project with Creative New Zealand to see if it qualifies for national funding. Visit Creative New Zealand's website, or email info@creativenz.govt.nz.

Successful applicants

Successful applicants are published in the Wairoa Star and on this website.

• HANHAM LAMBERT
  $450.00 For paint and consumable materials and rent to provide learning space to create art.
• NUHAKA RUGBY FOOTBALL CLUB
  $1,250.00 Towards waiata and haka wananga.
• RONGO ROSS
  $1,000.00 For consumable materials, rent and tutor fees for Art Workshop.MARTIN PAUL
  $823.90 For consumable materials and tutor fees to share and teach skills in wood and bone carving.
• LONG RIVER GALLERY
  $750.00 For advertising, stationary and data collection to update and expand the existing database of artists in the Wairoa district.
• WAIROA COMMUNITY CENTRE
  $1,188.00 Stage Two of enhancing visual impact, create a more colourful and vibrant environment, create the wow factor.

Contact

If you have any questions about the Creative Communities scheme please contact the Wairoa District Council.

+64 6 838 7309

gay@wairoadc.govt.nz