Funding
Open Now (listed by closing date)
26 May 2025 – Create NSW Arts and Cultural Funding Program – 2-Year Multi-year Funding – applications now open. Applications have opened for Create NSW’s 2-year Multi-year Funding for arts and cultural organisations.
30 May 2025 –Wingecarribee ClubGRANTS Category 1 program funding to support projects that enhance community wellbeing. The NSW ClubGRANTS scheme is a community development initiative funded by local registered clubs and administered by the NSW Government.
31 May 2025 – QPRC Cultural Grants – aims to assist local arts, artists, musicians, performers, writers and arts/cultural groups to start and develop their own projects, and to improve the community’s opportunities for involvement in cultural and arts activities. Applications are open throughout the year, or until funds have been exhausted.
3 Jun 2025 – Creative Australia Fellowships of $80,000 support outstanding, established artists’ or arts workers’ creative activity and professional development for a period of up to two years. There are nine Fellowships offered in the areas of: Arts and Disability; Community Arts and Cultural Development; Dance; Emerging and Experimental Arts; First Nations; Literature; Music; Theatre; Visual Arts.
3 Jun – Creative Australia – Giving Day to the Arts Micro Grants This program aims to support and enable a collective action by artists and arts organisations to fundraise on one national day – increasing the visibility of arts philanthropy and encouraging greater generosity in support of the arts.
3 Jun 2025 – Creative Autralia – Playing Australia Project Investment This program aims to support performing arts tours to reach regional and remote communities across Australia. It supports organisations to undertake performing arts tours to reach regional and remote communities across Australia.
3 Jun 2025 – Creative Australia – VACS Major Commissioning Projects (Individuals and Groups) This program funds new visual arts and craft commissions to be created for presentation nationally and internationally.
30 Jun 2025 – Believer Grants Your project should connect young people with their creativity and we mean this in the broadest sense of he word. Artists are creative, but so are scientists, debaters, community builders and dancers. Creativity is in all of us, it is our birthright and your project can be anything from a summer camp to a robotics competition to a co-working holiday house for artists.
30 Jun2025 – North Queensland Production Incentive, attracts footloose screen productions to North Queensland.
30 Jun 2025 – Regional Filming Fund Offsets costs associated with shooting in regional areas of NSW. The objectives of the program are to:
– Increase economic activity in regional NSW, by encouraging NSW screen productions to film outside of metropolitan areas
– Enable regional NSW to benefit from the growth of film and television production in the State.
10 Jul 2025 Screen Australia – First Nations Program: Feature Drama Development The First Nations Department’s feature development program aims to provide opportunities for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander filmmakers with demonstrated experience to extend their craft and their ideas in the longer feature format.
10 Jul 2025 – Screen Australia – First Nations Program: TV Drama Development This program aims to provide practitioners with the opportunity to create appropriate written and/or visual materials to ensure that projects are as strong as possible when competing for production finance. It seeks to support striking and engaging storytelling that will connect with audiences.
5 Aug 2025 – Playing Australia Audience Development Multi-Year Investment Program 2026-2028
The Multi-Year Investment program for 2026-2028 will focus on audience development in regional and remote communities aligned with national touring activity.
2 Sep 2025 – Creative Australia Arts Projects for Individuals and Groups – This program funds a range of activities that deliver benefits to the arts sector and wider public, including national and international audiences and communities. Grants are available from $10,000 to $50,000. Supported activities must not last longer than two years from the proposed start date
2 Sep 2025 –Creative Australia – Arts Projects: Organisations This program aims to fund a range of activities for organisations that deliver benefits to the arts sector and wider public, including national and international audiences and communities.
28 Nov 2025 – Touring and Travel Fund Offers quick response funding for domestic and international touring and travel activity for NSW contemporary music artists, acts and music industry professionals.
30 Nov 2025 – (1 Feb 2025 opens) –Regional Arts Fund – Quick Response GrantsAssists regional NSW artists, arts organisations and communities with funds for professional or skills development, or small project opportunities, at short notice.
Always open
Regional Arts Fund Quick Response Grants. Monthly rounds. Support immediate need unable to be planned for or supported by other funding. Up to $3,000 for individuals or $5,000 for organisations. Open to regional artists, arts organisations and communities to take up professional or skills development opportunities, or respond to small project opportunities that arise at short notice. Delivered monthly from February to November.
Development Program
Supports writers and producers to develop fiction or unscripted (documentary) and online projects with distinctive ideas and ambitious stories.
The Eden-Monaro Grants Bulletin is now available online – providing details of more than 400 grants, scholarships, and funding rounds from Local Government, the NSW Government, and the Australian Government, including private and philanthropic grants.
International Cultural Diplomacy Arts Fund (ICDAF) – This program aims to support activities in Australia and around the world that promote the Australian Government’s international arts and cultural engagement and cultural diplomacy priorities, and assist the Government in meeting Australia’s international commitments relating to arts and culture.
William Fletcher Artist Grants Provides grants for the development of talented Australian artists.
Roots & Shoots Mini Grants – Offers a rewarding, seed-funding initiative to promote respect and compassion for all living things in Australia.Past Mini Grant winners include everything from wombat conservation projects, sewing warm beanies for those living on city streets during winter, filling classrooms with colourful indoor plants, creating bee habitat gardens at Scout Halls, permaculture projects and so much more!
AFTRS First Nations Scholarships This program aims to assist Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students, with the costs associated with higher education at Australian Film Television annd Radio School.
SupportAct Crisis Relief Grants and support are available to musicians, managers, crew and music workers across all genres experiencing financial hardship as the result of illness, injury, mental health, older age or another current crisis that is impacting their ability to work in music.
NSW EPA Find out about the $356 million grants programs available under the NSW Waste and Sustainable Materials Strategy 2041 and the NSW Plastic Action Plan.
2024 Open The Create Fund – Artist Investment Program Provides support for artists in order to help Shutterstock build a more diverse library. A production grant allocated to an artist Shutterstock would love to help develop.
Creative Australia have a range of funding opportunities and resources.
Create NSW Funding Calendar Want to know what other funding opportunities are available?
Writing NSW Grants and Prizes Offers a range of grants and fellowships that support and nourish writing talent in the state.
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 with rounds throughout the year.
Yass Valley Council Grants programs are a way for Yass Valley Council to contribute to community organisations and others to continue their worthwhile work in the community.
QPRC Cultural Grants assist local arts, artists, musicians, performers, writers and arts/cultural groups to start and develop their own projects, and to improve the community’s opportunities for involvement in cultural and arts activities. Applications are open throughout the year, or until funds have been exhausted.
Create NSW Quick Response grants Small Project Grants (Quick Response) for Individuals
Small Project Grants (Quick Response) support the creation, development and presentation of new work and professional development opportunities for NSW-based professional artists, groups and arts and cultural workers (including museum workers). You can apply for funding from $500 up to $5000. Please note: Your project must be urgent or time-sensitiveYou must complete your project within 3 months of receiving funding.Please note: Your project must commence three weeks after the date you submit your application.
Australian Rural Leadership Foundation Programs
Offers purpose-made experiential leadership programs tailored to rural, regional and remote Australia.
The ARLF is a for-purpose organisation driving change and fostering resilience in rural, regional and remote communities through the development of courageous and authentic leadership. For 30 years the Foundation has delivered experiential leadership development programs. Their programs are tailored to connect, challenge and support the people ready to help communities thrive.
Premier’s Discretionary Fund
Supports community-based projects which are identified by the Premier through ongoing community engagement.
Please see funding provider’s website for the types of projects previously funded.
The National Ethnic and Multicultural Broadcasters’ Council Tony Manicaros Grant
Funds innovative projects which utilise, extend or develop opportunities in ethnic community radio broadcasting. Up to $2,000 can be given to a project.
Innovate Grant
Provides grants to artists and photographers to act as sparks of financial support that ignite your creative development through;New Ideas, Experiment with New Forms, Create New Work. Grant cycles are open 4 times a year (Spring, Summer, Fall and Winter). EAll recipients will be featured and recognized on Innovate’s website.
Institute of Community Directors Scholarships.
Offers part-scholarships to not-for-profit leaders to complete the acclaimed ICDA Diploma of Governance. The ICDA Diploma of Governance is the only Diploma-level course specifically designed for the not-for-profit sector.
William Fletcher Foundation William Fletcher Artist Grants
Provides grants for the development of talented Australian artists. A range of support is available, including: Support grants for students, Development grants for mid-career artists, NIDA Student Grants, Sydney Theatre Awards, Julian Ashton Half-Scholarship
Creative Partnerships Australia Australian Cultural Fund
Helps raise funds for Australian artists, via a donation-based fundraising platform. The Australian Cultural Fund is a fundraising platform for Australian artists. It is managed by Creative Partnerships Australia and was established by the Australian Government in 2003 to encourage donations to the arts.
Gandel Foundation Community Grants
Support for the most vulnerable and marginalised groups in our society, and aims to help build stronger, more resilient, more vibrant and more inclusive communities. Amounts up to $40,000.
Microsoft for Nonprofits Provides grants and discounts across Microsoft cloud products.
Club Grants are now open right across the region. Head to the Club Grants page and find out m
CASP Spotlight – Everyone’s favourite small grant the Country Art Support Program or CASP has funded creative projects and makers across the STA Region and Regional NSW for decades. Check out the exciting CASP 2025 & other projects
Grant Funding Finder –Developed by Regional Development Australia Southern Inland
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Recurring Options
CASP – Country Art Support Program Annual small grants to support local projects & activities
Check out the exciting CASP 2025 & other projects. CASP will open in late 2025 for 2026 projects.
Quick Response Grants – NOW OPEN
Create NSW provides grants, funding and support for arts and cultural organisations, professional artists and arts and cultural workers across metro and regional NSW.
Creative Australia – Investments and opportunities
Creative Australia is the national Arts body. They stimulate creativity, entrepreneurship, and discoverability through recurrent project and program investments and grants, training and mentoring.
Sound NSW – provides grants, funding and support for NSW artists, live music venues, organisations and professionals.
Music NSW – FUNDING CALENDAR
Screen NSW – grants, incentives and rebates to help deliver high-value jobs and contribute to the NSW economy.
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