Arts and Cultural Funding Program - Project Funding for Organisations - 2023-34 - Round 1

Funding for organisations and local government authority projects to support innovation, vibrancy and creativity within the NSW arts and cultural sector.

Your project must have a clearly defined focus on arts and cultural activity that either:

• benefits NSW by employing professional NSW artists or arts and cultural workers (including museum workers)
• provides arts and cultural experiences to the people of NSW.

You must be either:

• an arts and cultural organisation located in Australia
• a local government authority (LGA) located in NSW

Funding is available for a wide range of arts and cultural activities, including:

• creative development
• public presentation
• commissioning professional artists
• community collaborations/partnerships
• research and/or development
• audience engagement
• making work accessible to audiences/artists with disability
• conservation and/or development of collections and archives (including Aboriginal Keeping Places).
• business development activities including new responses to environmental changes.
• LGA projects excluding operational costs
• for-profit organisation projects must demonstrate a break-even or non-profit budget.

There will be two rounds in 2023-24:
Round 1 for projects that start and end between 1 January 2024 and 30 June 2025
Round 2 for projects that start and end between 1 July 2024 and 31 December 2026