Applications for our latest round of Creative Communities funding are now open!
The Creative Communities Scheme helps to fund local arts projects. Each year Creative New Zealand provides funding to councils to distribute. Carterton District Council has 2 rounds of CCS funding each year.
To get funding through CCS your arts project must do at least one of the following:
Participation
Create opportunities for local communities to engage with, and participate in local arts activities, for example:
- Performances by community choirs, hip-hop groups, theatre companies, musicians or poets
- Workshops on printmaking, writing or dancing
- Creation of new tukutuku, whakairo or kowhaiwhai for a local marae
Diversity
Support the diverse artistic cultural traditions of local communities, for example:
- Workshops, rehearsals, performances, festivals or exhibitions in Māori or Pasifika heritage or contemporary art forms
- Workshops, rehearsals, performances, festivals or exhibitions by local migrant communities
- Workshops, rehearsals, performances, festivals or exhibitions by groups with experience of disability or mental illness
Young people
Enable young people (under 18 years) to engage with, and participate in the arts, for example:
- A group of young people working with an artist to create a mural or street art
- A group of young people creating a film about an issue that is important to them
- Printing a collection of writing by young people
- Music workshops for young people
- An exhibition of visual art work by young people
Still reading? Must be time to apply: Creative Communities Scheme – Round One 2025/26 – Carterton District Council
If you’d like more information on this specific grant opportunity, or any grant opportunities offered by CDC, view our grants framework here: Contestable-Grants_Funding_August-2025-1.pdf