Creative New Zealand contributes to the achievement of the outcomes set out in its Strategic Plan by delivering three core services:
- Funding for artists, practitioners and organisations
- Capability-building for artists, practitioners and organisations
- Advocacy for the arts
In 2009/10 Creative New Zealand received $15,689,000 through the Ministry for Culture and Heritage and a grant of $25,170,192 from the New Zealand Lottery Grants Board. This includes a one-off payment of $2,100,000.
In 2008/09, Creative New Zealand provided $32,865,000 in funding through grants, projects and initiatives to artists and arts organisations. This funding supported 2,333 community arts projects, approximately 500 projects and funding to thirty-five recurrently funded professional arts organisations.
Funding for artists, practitioners and organisations
Eighty percent of Creative New Zealand’s approximately $40 million budget is distributed to the community through funding or grants.
Our major funding programmes include:
- Recurrently funded organisations: Supporting the development of sustainable infrastructure in the arts sector by funding selected organisations for a fixed term
- Contestable funding: Supporting artists, arts organisations and practitioners to develop the arts in New Zealand through a range of programmes
Contestable funding includes:
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Special opportunities for artists and practitioners: Supporting residencies, fellowships and awards that provide selected artists and practitioners with opportunities that are not available through contestable funding
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Toi Ake: Supporting the preservation and development of mahi toi for hapū/iwi
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Tohunga Tukunga mentoring programme: Supporting Tohunga to share their knowledge and skills with senior Māori artists
- Creative Communities Scheme: A small grants scheme that supports community arts projects and activities. Creative Communities Scheme funding is devolved to the seventy-three TLAs to distribute in their local community
- International projects: Supporting artists, practitioners and organisations to present New Zealand work internationally.
Capability-building for artists, practitioners and organisations
Creative New Zealand’s national oversight of the arts sector allows us to target initiatives and build the skills and knowledge of arts practitioners so that they can become more effective and efficient.
Major capability-building programmes include:
- Arts organisation development programme: A programme of capability building initiatives aimed at increasing the skills of arts organisations and practitioners, including arts leadership
- Audience development: Encouraging and supporting arts organisations to build sustainable audience relationships
- International capability building: This programme delivers workshops, master-classes and exchanges that aim to build the skills of artists, practitioners and organisations to plan, sell and manage international engagements.
Advocacy for the arts
The aim of our advocacy work is to raise awareness of the role and contribution of the arts, and of key issues affecting the arts sector. We are also seeking to change the environment for the benefit of the arts.