2025 Blue Heeler Film Festival

Entries close: 12 October 2025 The theme for this year’s Blue Heeler Film Festival is “Nurture”. They are looking for films that explore the power of nurturing—whether it’s caring for the environment, relationships, ourselves or nurturing an idea. For all the details please visit https://filmfreeway.com/BlueHeelerFilmFestival      

Create NSW Regional Arts Tours Funding Program

Applications for Round 2 of the 2024/25 Regional Arts Touring Fund close Monday 17 March 2025. World-class arts and cultural productions and programs keen to hit the road across NSW are invited to apply for the second round of Create NSW’s 2024/25 Regional Arts Touring funding program. Artists, creatives and producers, including individuals and organisations,…

Create NSW’s Connectivity

Applications close 17 March 2025 This new program supports ongoing collaborative ventures across the arts, cultural and creative industries ecosystem, driving greater innovation, long-term sustainability and increased cultural exports. Applications are invited from not-for-profit small-to-medium arts and cultural organisations collaborating with a creative business to deliver an innovative idea. The broad range of partner creative…

The Dungog Archies- Faces and Places

Entries close 22 March 2025 Hosted by the Dungog Arts Society. This year there will be both a portrait prize (the Dungog Archies and also part of the ‘Faces’ portrait component of the theme) and a landscape/places’ prize (the ‘Places’ part of the theme.) For more details please email the Dungog Arts Society admin@dungogarts.com.au

Jim Sharman Future Award

Applications close: 24 March 2025 The NIDA Future Centre has just launched the $50,000 Jim Sharman Future Award. The Award open to those aged 16–30 from Australia and the Asia-Pacific region – so if you have contacts in the Asia Pacific, that’d be particularly welcome. The Award is for a bold idea or project with…

FRRR Strengthening Rural Communities — Small & Vital

Applications close 27 March 2025 Foundation for Rural Regional Renewal’s Strengthening Rural Communities (SRC) Small & Vital stream gives small remote, rural and regional communities across Australia the opportunity to access funds for a broad range of initiatives that directly and clearly benefit local communities. Grants up to $10,000 are available for a broad range…

ClubGRANTS

ClubGRANTS funding is available to community groups, charities and sporting teams across NSW. Funding is available under three separate categories: Category 1: Supports community welfare and social services; community development; employment assistance activities; community health services; and projects aimed at improving the living standards of low income and disadvantaged people. Category 2: Provides funding for…