Small Arts Grants

A Small Arts Grant is designed to provide a small amount of funding with a quick turnaround time for eligible creative projects. Activities should engage people in meaningful ways, and provide chances for people to actively participate in arts, cultural, and creative opportunities in Ōtepoti.

The maximum available per grant is $500; because this funding pool is limited, please note that it may be exhausted before the end of the financial year.

Please note, applications will not be processed between 1 December and 30 January. Grants are processed as they are received.

If you are thinking of applying for a grant, please contact Ara Toi Creative Advisors. They can answer your questions and help put you on the right grants path.

• Call: 03 477 4000
• Email: aratoi@dcc.govt.nz
• DM on Instagram: @aratoiotepoti

Before you start

• You cannot apply as an individual: see below for options
• You may only receive ONE of the following DCC-funded grants per financial year:
  • Arts
  • Community
  • Small Arts Project
  • Community Events
  • Small Community Project
• You need to show additional sources of support for your project (eg: volunteer labour, donations, other funding).

Who can apply?

Not-for-profit groups or organisations that are legal entities.

Individuals or groups that are not legal entities may apply under an umbrella organisation.

To be eligible for this grant, your arts project must:

• take place within Dunedin
• benefit local communities in Dunedin
• not have started or finished before funding is approved
• be completed within 12 months of funding being approved

Funding criteria

To be eligible for funding, your group or organisation must:

• seek to achieve the objectives of Ara Toi.
• be well established in its primary activity of arts and cultural development in Dunedin, or;
• be a well-established group with demonstrated knowledge of how a project will contribute to arts and cultural development in Dunedin.
• have a significant level of community interaction.

Your arts project or initiative must:

• demonstrate clear benefits for the community.
• promote and advance arts and cultural development in Dunedin
• increase awareness of and participation in arts and creative cultural activity.
• not be part of the group’s usual activities except for special circumstances.
• support and encourage local involvement or content.

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