2024-25 ARTS FUND | PARTNERSHIPS

Submissions closed at midnight (end of day) 31 October 2024 (AEST).

Welcome to the City of Gold Coast Council's online grant application service, powered by SmartyGrants.

Complete this form to submit your Arts Development Fund Arts Partnerships Application.

You may begin anywhere in this application form. Please ensure you save as you go.

It is also recommended that you contact the City of Gold Coast’s Grants Officer to discuss your project before starting your application.

Enquires can be directed to: E: cultural@goldcoast.qld.gov.au

IMPORTANT: Please read information below to assist you in completing your application online.

Before you start your application

Read the Arts Development Fund Guidelines

Read the Arts Development Fund FAQs & Important Information

Read the City of Gold Coast Culture Strategy 2023

Read the Council Plan 2022-27

Read the Gold Coast 2032.

The Arts Development Fund: FAQ and Important Information for Applicants

The purpose of the Arts Development Fund is to support the Gold Coast’s creative community by fostering professional pathways, skills development outcomes and to provide community benefit that contributes to the city’s vibrant lifestyle.

The City provides grants to financially support operations and projects that deliver measurable outcomes aligned to the City Vision. Funding supports a diverse local arts sector, grows community engagement and satisfaction with the arts and builds local employment in the sector.

Arts Partnerships

Arts Partnerships funding streams provides multiyear funding that aims to strategically grow the local arts and cultural sector by supporting the operations of emerging and entrepreneurial arts and cultural groups, companies, and organisations. This funding allows recipients to develop sustainable practice, new works, entrepreneurship, artistic excellence, and cultural leadership.

It is the intention of this grant is to invest in organisations that are part of the small to medium arts and cultural sector and/ or arts groups and companies not eligible for other City of Gold Coast Council community grants. Applicants should consider the assessment criteria of capacity, merit, reach and benefit.

Peer-assessed by an external independent Arts Development Fund Committee. Applications will be assessed and determined within 8 weeks of the closing date (31 October 2024).

Arts Partnerships – Stream 1

Funding up to $80,000 per year over four years available.

Applicants must have a minimum 3-year history of delivering arts related activity and be able to show a minimum 3-year (consecutive) history of reporting against government investment.

Arts Partnerships – Stream 2

Funding up to $40,000 per year over four years available.

Applicants must have either:

- a minimum 12-month history of delivering arts related activity with the ABN in the name of the organisation, or

- an ABN in the name of the organisation with less than a 12-month history and be able to show a minimum 3-year experience delivering activity under the organisational name.

Submission requirements:

To be eligible to apply you must:

Stream 1

Stream 2

Be Gold Coast based

   X

    X   

Be a collective of collaborating artists/ unincorporated entity/ creative business OR legally constituted non-government entity

   X

    X   

If you are a collective, all members are Australian citizens or permanent residents

   X  

   X   

Have a registered Australian Business Number (ABN) in the name of the collective/organisation/ group or creative business - ABNs in an individual’s name are NOT eligible

   X   

   X   

Have an Australian Company Number (ACN) (companies only)

   X   

 

Have a Queensland Certificate of Incorporation or Australian Charities & Not-for-profits Commission Registration Certificate (ACNC) (Not-for-profits only)

   X   

   X   

Have Public liability insurance

   X   

   X   

Be solvent

   X

   X   

Have a minimum 3-year history of delivering arts related activity (with the ABN supplied in the application)

   X   

 

Have a strategic plan

   X   

 

Provide a detailed program of activity for year 1 (2025) and outline programs for years 2 (2026), 3 (2027) and 4 (2028)

   X

   X   

Be able to show a minimum 3-year (consecutive) history of reporting against government investment

   X

 

Have a minimum 12-month history of delivering arts related activity with the ABN supplied in the application OR be able to show a minimum 3-year experience delivering activity under the organisational name

 

   X   

Be operating in the following target sectors: arts and culture/ creative industries

   X

   X   

Deliver clearly defined arts and cultural outcomes in the City of Gold Coast

   X

   X   

Engage practicing artist or arts professionals

   X 

   X   

Have completed and acquitted any previous City of Gold Coast funding

   X 

   X   

Not have accepted or have a current City of Gold Coast Council grant for the same purpose, I.e., operational funding.

   X 

   X   

Not have City of Gold Coast Council employees as decision makers within your organisation

   X 

   X   

Complete the application form in full

   X 

   X   

Submit all required support materials at the time of application

   X 

   X   

 

SMARTYGRANTS INFORMATION

NAVIGATING (MOVING THROUGH) THE APPLICATION FORM

If you need more help using this form, download the Help Guide for Applicants or check out Applicant Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ's)

On every screen (page of the form) you will find a Form Navigation contents box, this links directly to every page of the application. Click the link to jump directly to the page you want.

You can also click 'next page' or 'previous page' on the top or bottom of each page to move forward or backward through the application.

SAVING YOUR DRAFT APPLICATION

If you wish to leave a partially completed application, press 'save and close' and log out. When you log back in and click on the 'My Submissions' link at the top of the screen, you will find a list of any applications you have started or submitted. You can reopen your draft application and start where you left off.

You can also download any application, whether draft or completed, as a PDF. Click on the 'Download PDF' button located at the bottom of the last page of the application form.

SUBMITTING YOUR APPLICATION

You will find a Review and Submit button at the bottom of the Navigation Panel. You need to review your application before you can submit it.

Once you have reviewed your application you can submit it by clicking on 'Submit' at the top or bottom of the screen or on the navigation panel. You will not be able to submit your application until all the compulsory questions are completed and there are no validation errors.

Once you have submitted your application, no further editing or uploading of support materials is possible.

When you submit your application, you will receive a confirmation email with a copy of your submitted application attached. This will be sent to the email you used to register.

If you do not receive a confirmation of submission email, then you should presume that your submission has NOT been submitted.

Hint: also check the email hasn't landed in your spam or junk email folder.

ATTACHMENTS AND SUPPORT DOCUMENTS

You may need to upload/submit attachments to support your application. This is very simple, but requires you to have the documents saved on your computer, or on a storage device.

You need to allow enough time for each file to upload before trying to attach another file. Files can be up to 25MB each; however, we do recommend trying to keep files to a maximum of 5MB – the larger the file, the longer the upload time.

COMPLETING AN APPLICATION IN A GROUP/TEAM

A number of people can work on an application using the same log in details as long as only one person is working at a time. Ensure you save as you go.

SPELL CHECK

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