Grant Applications

CULTURE BANK WOLLONGONG : A NEW FUNDING ROUND WILL BE OPEN FOR SUBMISSIONS FROM Tuesday 15 October 2024 UNTIL Friday 15 November 2024, 5PM.

Please remember to not submit applications before the date and send in your applications through our website.

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Culture Bank Wollongong’s core purpose is to help create a vital cultural life in the greater Wollongong area. Our aim is to inspire the imagination of our community and galvanize our creativity. Anyone who lives or creates in the Illawarra and wants to:

Explore a passion, initiate an idea, dance, present a comedy routine, recite some poetry, and create something uniquely expressing life, stories, and shared experience – or CULTURE!

Just fill out the application form below with information about yourself and your project details.

What we ask from you, the applicant:

If your application is successful, your project will be supported freely and without conditions from Culture Bank Wollongong (apart from – see below).

All work produced remains the property of the artist/s.

However, we do ask that you show your appreciation for this gift from Culture Bank Wollongong by agreeing to:

Conduct your project within six months of receiving the money from Culture Bank Wollongong (unless otherwise negotiated).

Keep Culture Bank Wollongong informed about the date, times, and location/s of your project so that we can be part of an enthusiastic audience and assist you with promoting your event.

IMPORTANT: You must provide Culture Bank Wollongong with good quality/high-resolution images of your activity/event for promotion. We also require written statements and updates that we can use to promote and give feedback to Culture Bank members. If you do not provide Culture Bank with these things, it will, unfortunately, impact your chance of gaining future funding from Culture Bank.

  Promoting and acknowledging Culture Bank Wollongong in public talks, media, marketing & publicity material promoting your activity (this could be the logo or any other creative way to demonstrate support). We stress the importance of acknowledging Culture Banks’ contribution to any additional material produced to promote your project. This also means remembering to tag# images used on social media which depict projects Culture Bank has supported.

Applicants must have a valid ABN and be able to provide Culture Bank with an invoice.

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