Funds
Open applications
Each year Creative New Zealand provides funding to city and district councils for distributing in their area. The scheme supports more than 1,800 projects every year. Applications are made directly to your local council and closing dates vary. Read more
Amount:
Mostly under $2,000
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Closed applications
This fund provides two rounds of emergency support for Tōtara and Kahikatea organisations receiving multi-year funding that have been materially negatively impacted by COVID-19. The funding is to help organisations maintain their key people and honour contracts with other creative practitioners until 31 December 2020 for round one and to 30 June 2021 for round two. Read more
Amount:
Varies depending on minimum amount needed
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This fund supports researching, developing and/or creating new artwork in the digital space to be experienced by global audiences. The aim of the fund is to amplify innovative digital arts practice and encourage exploration and experimentation. It does this by supporting the development of new, high-quality digital artwork for global audiences. Read more
Amount:
$5,000 - $10,000 for Research Strand or $5,000 - $150,000 for New Work Strand
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The annual Todd New Writer's Bursary enables a writer or playwright at an early stage of their career to write a new work. Read more
Amount:
Varies
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This fund, created for organisations, aims to incentivise local and regional investment in the development and presentation of new local arts activity outside the main centres of Auckland, Wellington and Christchurch. Read more
Amount:
Up to $150,000
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The Resilience Fund provides emergency support for organisations receiving multi-year funding (under our Tōtara and Kahikatea programmes) that have been negatively impacted by COVID-19.This funding round is to help organisations stabilise their business and remain viable up to 31 December 2021, in response to flow-on impacts of New Zealand moving to Alert Level 4 in August 2021. It’s partially funded by the Government’s COVID-19 Delta Relief Funding package announced in September. Read more
Amount:
Varies depending on minimum amount needed
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Fakaalofa lahi atu, Ni Sa Bula Vinaka, Tālofa, Kia orana, Mālō e lelei, Noa'ia, Mauri, Mālō nī, Talofa lava, Tēnā koutou katoa. The Tolu Wave provides a funding contribution to eligible Pasifika festivals towards operational costs to present a festival in 2022 and/or 2023 and to develop organisational capability between 1 January 2022 and 31 December 2023. The Tolu Wave will address the impacts of COVID-19 so that eligible Pasifika Festivals are able to deliver festival activity in 2022 and 2023, depending on relevant COVID-19 Alert levels. Read more
Amount:
Up to $400,000
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The annual Louis Johnson New Writer's Bursary provides a stipend that enables a published writer or playwright at an early stage of their career to create a new work. Offered as part of Arts Grants 2021/22 Round 5, the round may close before the closing date if we receive the maximum 225 applications. Read more
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Varies
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The Toi Tipu Toi Rea – Emerging Māori Artist Fund supports emerging Māori artists or practitioners at an early stage of their career to undertake an arts project. Offered as part of Arts Grants rounds 3 and 6, the rounds may close before the closing date if we receive the maximum 225 applications. Read more
Amount:
$5,000 to $20,000
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This newly-established fund is designed to build arts organisations’ ability to diversify and increase their income streams, to help grow their sustainability in response to COVID-19. The fund is open to organisations in the Toi Tōtara Haemata and Toi Uru Kahikatea investment programme as well as arts organisations who submitted an expression of interest to take part in our developmental programme Te Puāwaitanga in March 2020. Read more
Amount:
Up to $150,000
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This new fund is designed to support transformation or significant development of the business model and/or artistic practice of organisations in the Toi Uru Kahikatea or Toi Tōtara Haemata investment programmes. The fund encourages new ways of working within changed environments and supports new and adapted organisational models in response to the opportunities presented by COVID-19. We’re interested in proposals focused on a re-think of organisational systems and processes and the adoption and deployment of digital technologies and solutions. Read more
Amount:
Varies depending on proposal
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Arts Grants offer short-term project funding for New Zealand artists, arts practitioners, arts organisations, groups and collectives. This funding enables more sustainable careers, encourages innovation and the development of arts practice, and provides opportunities for diverse communities to access the arts. Each round will close if 225 applications have been submitted, or if the closing date is reached. Read more
Amount:
$5,000 to $75,000
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This fund supports in-person/physical, digital or hybrid international presentations of work that are the result of one of Creative New Zealand's international initiatives. This includes adapting existing work to respond to this international presentation opportunity. Read more
Amount:
Up to $50,000
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This fund offers grants to support individual artists and arts practitioners to develop skills that increase their career sustainability and future-proof their business practice. Individual artists and arts practitioners can apply for activities that help them remain relevant to audiences and communities and become more resilient to changing environments. This round will close if 100 applications have been submitted, or if the closing date is reached, whichever occurs first. Read more
Amount:
$5,000 - $10,000
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Annual Arts Grants funding supports eligible artists, arts practitioners and arts organisations to present a regular or continuous programme of activity over a 12-month period and/or produce or present a significant event or project. Read more
Amount:
$75,000 - $150,000
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