Eligibility for Creative Communities Scheme (CCS) funding

Examples of projects that meet the criteria for CCS funding

Access and participation

• Performances by community choirs, hip-hop groups, theatre companies or poets.
• Workshops on printmaking, writing, dancing or other creative forms.
• Exhibitions by local craft groups promoting weaving, pottery and carving.
• Festivals featuring local artists.
• Creation of a community film or a public artwork by a community.
• Development of new tukutuku, whakairo or kōwhaiwhai for a local marae.

Diversity

• Workshops, rehearsals, performances, festivals or exhibitions:
• in Māori or Pasifika heritage art forms
• by local migrant communities.
• Arts projects bringing together groups from a range of different communities.
• Workshops, rehearsals, performances, festivals or exhibitions by groups with experience of disability or mental illness.

Young people

• A group of young people:
• working with an artist to create a mural or street art
• 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.

Appointments by phone

If you would like to talk about your application email creative.communities@aucklandcouncil.govt.nz for a phone appointment.

​Previously funded rounds

See CCS Auckland funded projects.