About the Creative Communities Scheme
Local art groups and creative projects across the Coromandel Peninsula are being offered a helping hand with funding from the Creative Communities Scheme.
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.
Fundable Projects
The types of projects or activities that could be funded
- Exhibitions, productions, concerts, festivals, workshops and presentations that offer opportunities for community involvement in the arts.
- Activities that support the traditions and arts of ethnic communities.
- Youth arts events
- Artist-led projects involving local communities
- Materials for arts activities or programmes
- Personnel costs for one-off, short-term projects
- Promotion and publicity of arts activities
- 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.
Funding Criteria
Your project must meet one or more of the following funding criteria:
- Access and Participation - The project will create opportunities for local communities to engage with and participate in arts activities.
- Diversity - The project will support the diverse arts and cultural traditions of local communities, enriching and promoting their uniqueness and cultural diversity.
- Young people - The project will enable and encourage young people (under 18 years) to engage with and actively participate in the arts.
Assessment Panel
We administer the funding based on decisions made by a Coromandel Arts and Creative Industries Advisory Board (Assessment Panel) made up of representatives from across the Thames-Coromandel District.
He Mana Toi Moehau Trust/Creative Coromandel
The He Mana Toi Moehau Trust/Creative Coromandel is responsible for advancing the Coromandel Arts and Creative Industries Strategy, including supporting the priorities from action plans between tangata whenua, arts communities and community boards, and leveraging funding from local, regional and national sources. The He Mana Toi Moehau Trust/Creative Coromandel has the role of establishing an assessment panel and distributing funding from Creative New Zealand under the Creative Communities Scheme.
Check out the Coromandel Arts and Creative Industries Strategy Here
CCS and Schools
CCS funding cannot be used for arts activities that are the responsibility of teachers (including itinerant staff) to deliver. This includes any arts learning that is already part of a school’s annual curriculum and teaching programme.
In other words, CCS does not replace or subsidise core curriculum delivery.
CCS may support additional arts and cultural activity that sits outside the school’s regular teaching programme and complements or enhances curriculum learning, provided all other CCS criteria are met.
These activities are often described as co-curricular or extra-curricular.
Eligible activities may include:
- Performances, workshops, or residencies led by visiting artists, held either at school or off site
- School productions, where they are not the primary method for delivering curriculum outcomes
- Community-based arts and cultural experiences, such as attending exhibitions, performances, or festivals
Applicants need to supply a letter from the school principal verifying that the activity or project is not part of the school’s curriculum and teaching programme, has not been identified by teachers as an activity they would offer students themselves and is not primarily a vehicle for assessment.