Arts and Culture grants

The Arts and Cultural Annual Grants program reflects the City of Stonnington’s vision to be vibrant, imaginative and creative. Spanning a broad range of art forms and practices this grant supports inclusive, innovative, engaging, empowering, resilient and environmentally friendly projects. Collectively these place value on the importance of our creativity and cultural identity and strengthens the social, community and economic development of the City of Stonnington. 

The City of Stonnington Arts and Cultural Grants:

• provides one year in-kind support for arts organisations, cultural organisations, community groups, emerging artists, and established artists to deliver appealing and contemporary cultural and creative projects
• connects communities through equitable, inclusive and accessible creative arts practice, activity, participation, location and attraction
• embraces and supports the knowledge, experience and cultures of different groups including First Nations people, culturally and linguistically diverse people, people living with disability, and LGBTIQA+ people
• raises the profile of arts and cultural activity throughout Stonnington
• recognises the importance of utilising environmentally sustainable practice at project development and delivery stages
• promotes the City of Stonnington as an exciting, attractive, safe, bold, and desired creative destination for community residents and those outside the boundaries
• supports arts organisations, cultural organisations, individuals, and groups to sustainably grow and succeed
• encourages shared connections and networking between members of the local arts and culture ecosystem
• supports promotion and celebration of arts and cultural programs with a wide audience
• evaluates the outcomes and impacts that creative arts and cultural projects have at personal, social, and economic levels.

Grant applications and guidelines

Open Wednesday 1 February 2023 from 12 pm via Smarty Grants, closing 12pm Friday 14 April 2023.

There are five Arts and Culture grants available. Check which is right for you, and read about its eligibility criteria in the guidelines before applying.

 

Have any unanswered questions? Find information about auspices, funding, project changes, marketing support, public liability insurance, event permits and more on our Frequently Asked Questions page. 

Assessment process

Unsuccessful applicants will be advised in July 2023.

Successful applicants will be contacted and required to enter into contract agreement with the City of Stonnington Grant Policy.

Applications are assessed against grant criteria by a panel consisting of internal and external arts industry professionals who shortlist recommendations for Council.

Success rests on the merits of the application against the assessment criteria and competition with other applications. In some cases, the panel will recommend part funding of an amount less than requested based on the application and supporting documents.

Successful grant recipients 2022-23

Grant recipients will develop work across a diverse range of art forms that will increase the arts experiences for the community. Their work will contribute to the cultural vibrancy of the city, while sustaining our local arts and cultural profile.

A total of 20 applications were endorsed by Council. The successful recipients were awarded support from the $440,000 total pool of fund across the 5 grant categories:

• $73,922 awarded to Triennial Arts and Culture Grant applications 
• $55,300 awarded to Arts and Culture Grant Over $20,000 applications
• $50,413 awarded to Arts and Culture Grant Up to $20,000 applications
• $38,840 awarded to Arts and Culture Grant Chapel Off Chapel In-Kind applications
• $8,761 awarded to Arts and Culture Grant Venue Hire In-Kind applications