About the Creative Community Scheme
Budding local art groups and creative projects across the Coromandel Peninsula are being offered a helping hand with funding from The Creative Communities Scheme.
The two annual funding rounds are in April and October.
Creative Communty Scheme Application Form
The scheme, backed by Creative New Zealand, aims to increase participation in the arts, broaden the range and diversity of the arts available to communities and enhance and strengthen the local arts sector.
Funding is awarded to projects rather than people undertaking the project and applications must meet one or more of the scheme’s criteria. Activities that may be funded include events or festivals, arts-related promotional activities, materials for a local arts event or activity, workshops for local artists and art groups, and personnel costs for one-off projects or costs associated with artist-in-residence schemes.
School-based projects that are outside of the school’s normal activities and provide opportunities for community participation or benefits to the wider community are also eligible.
New District Assessment Committee
Following the 2009 national Creative New Zealand review of the Creative Communities Scheme, Council has chosen to establish a District Creative Communities Assessment Committee to assess and allocate future funding.
Council previously contracted the assessment process of the scheme to the District's three community arts councils.
The new District Assessment Committee is to be made up of two representatives of each of the Coromandel, Thames and Whangamata Community Arts Councils; two residents from the Mercury Bay Ward; one Iwi representative appointed through the Hauraki Maori Trust Board and three representatives of the wider community including one from Tourism Coromandel.
The Creative Communities Scheme has supported many activities including local theatrical productions, digital storytelling workshops and music and art festivals.
The two annual funding rounds will continue to fall in April and October.