How to find funding for your arts projects

There are a range of grants and opportunities both in the Hunter and Nationally available to the creative sector. We’ve collected some useful resources to help you start your search.

Australia Council for the Arts

Grants program supporting a diverse range of artists, artistic practice, organisations and arts activity.

City of Newcastle Special Business Rates Program

Annual funding for the most creative and innovative project proposals is distributed through a competitive application process.

Create NSW’s Arts and Cultural Funding Program

Create NSW provides funding opportunities for arts and cultural organisations, professional artists, and arts/cultural workers across a wide range of artforms and disciplines.

Current details on open rounds can be found here:

CREATE NSW

COVID Development Grants

Applications open for COVID Development Grants

Create NSW is offering targeted support to individuals and groups of up to $5,000, and up to $10,000 for organisations in the small-to-medium sector in NSW who have been impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic.

SUPPORT ACT

COVID-19 Crisis Relief Grants

With continued funding support from the Australian Government through the Office for the Arts, Support Act is offering cash grants of $2,000 ($2,700 to families with dependent children) to music and performing arts workers called COVID-19 Crisis Relief Grants

Check eligibility and apply here:

Lake Mac Arts Creative Opportunities

Lake Macquarie is bursting at the seams with artists and creatives always eager for new opportunities to expand and develop their creative practice.

A list of current opportunities can be found below. 

Screen Australia

Screen Australia offers funding to support the development, production and marketing of Australian screen content, as well as for the development of Australian talent and screen production businesses.