2024/2025 Medium Community Grants-Creative Projects(Artist-led initiatives)

 1. Before applying, please read the 2024/2025 Darebin Community Grants Program's Information & Guidelines, available at: Darebin Council Community Grants Program

2.This form is for applications for Creative Projects - Artist Led Initiatives. This grant supports individual artists and creative organisations to engage in projects that enable innovative collaborations between artists and community. The maximum amount available for this grant is $15,000 *Applicants applying for $7,000 or more are required to submit a detailed Project Plan.

3. Individual artists and not-for profit incorporated groups and organisations can apply.

4. Applicants can be based outside Darebin, but must be engaging Darebin communities in an artistic capacity through their work. It is imperative that the Darebin community are at the centre of the initiative, and that this drives the work.

5. Is your project planned to be Public Art?

If your project is a public art project, you must contact the Art & Collections team via bundoorahomestead@darebin.vic.gov.au or call them on 03 9496 1060 prior to submitting your application, no later than May 17, 2024  with information on your proposal including site/s, duration, permits that potentially need to be obtained and potential install/de-install details.

6. The main aim of this program is to support initiatives that:

• Are consistent with the aims of the 2021-2025  Council Plan 
• Encourage participation and social connection through art
• Support creative industries, making Darebin a significant art and creative centre
• Contribute to equity within the community and recognising and celebrating the diversity of the Darebin community
• Address local priorities and engage local community through new, innovative and creative approaches
• Contribute towards the overall wellbeing of our residents through activation and animation, across the city.
• Support the development of artists' practice and the generation of creative projects in Darebin
• Engage with communities who have been identified as 'at risk' of discrimination or exclusion:
  • Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait  Islander people
  • People with a disability and their carers
  • Culturally and Linguistically Diverse (CALD) communities
  • Women
  • Young people
  • Older adults 
  • LGBTIQA+ people
  • Asylum seekers and refugees
  • Darebin residents on low incomes or experiencing socioeconomic disadvantage

7. How will the application be assessed?

Council assesses each application on its merits. Eligible applications will be assessed using the questions and criteria listed below. The percentage weightings are provided as a guide to the importance of each question in the assessment process:

Community benefit (30%)

• Does the application support the priority areas?
• Has the application appropriately engaged with the local community?
• Clearly identify activity locations within the Darebin municipality.
• Clearly explain how the organisation currently engages or plans to engage community members, including priority groups.
• Does the proposal identify the expected outputs and outcomes?

Organisational capacity and planning (40%)

• Is the application well planned and achievable within the timeframe?
• Does the application include clear evaluation processes and methods?
• Does the budget accurately reflect the scope and scale of the application?

 Artistic merit (30%)

• How does the work/project activate Darebin as a creative city?
• How does the project progress the artistic practice of artists and/or community collaborators?
• Why is the project important to you as an artist and to the community in Darebin as audiences and/or as collaborators?

8.Each year, we receive an increasing number of applications and Council is unable to fund 100% of all projects. As such,applications might be awarded an amount which is less than the amount requested (please refer to the Financial Information section of this application form).

9. Only one Creative Projects - Artist Led Initiatives application per organisation/individual artist will be accepted. Eligible applicants may also choose to apply for a Venue Hire Support Grant (Refer to Community Grants Guidelines 2024/2025).

Closing date for applications is  Friday   May 31 2024  at 11.59pm (end of day). Late applications will not be accepted.