Funding | Overview | Step 1

This step is about helping you to work out whether your project is eligible for Creative New Zealand funding. You may find it easier to work your way through this checklist in PDF format.

Project timing

The closing date is:

5.00pm, Friday 25 July 2008 (for projects beginning after 25 October 2008)

Will your application arrive at Creative New Zealand's Central Region office in Wellington after the relevant closing date?

If your answer is "yes" you are ineligible to apply unless you can provide evidence that your application was mailed or couriered within New Zealand prior to the 5pm closing date. If you're applying from outside New Zealand, you will need to send your application much earlier.

For more information on closing dates, please refer to FAQs 3, 4 and 5.

Decisions are announced three months after the closing date. Funding is not available for projects (or the part of the project for which you're applying for funding) that have started before the decisions are announced: i.e. within three months of the closing date.

Please note: you may apply for funding for a new phase of an existing project (see FAQ No. 6 ).

Closing dates for awards, residencies, bursaries, scholarships, the Screen Innovation Production Fund, New Zealand Authors' Fund and toi iho™ Maori made mark are listed on our Closing Dates page.

Project eligibility

Please work through the following checklist to find out if your project is eligible for funding.

If you tick "yes" to one or more questions in section A, then your project is not eligible.If you tick "yes" to one or more questions in section B, then you will need to discuss your project's eligibility with a programme administrator in your area.

SECTION A

Is the main focus of your project:

the purchase of capital items (e.g. computer, vehicle, recording equipment, musical instruments, uniforms)?
establishment costs, general running costs or salaries for an ongoing organisation (except where the costs are linked to a specific, time-bound arts project)?
the creation or maintenance of a website (except where the costs are linked to a specific, time-bound arts project)?
to bring an overseas organisation to present work in New Zealand?
for an ongoing programme of school or tertiary (i.e. undergraduate or postgraduate) study in New Zealand?

SECTION B

If you tick "yes" to one or more questions in section B, then you will need to discuss your project's eligibility with a programme administrator in your area.

Is your project for an overseas course for which there are comparable studies in New Zealand?
If yes, you may still be eligible to apply.

Are you an artist or arts organisation not based in New Zealand?
If yes, you may still be eligible to apply.

Is your project a contest or competition?
If yes, you are only eligible to apply if there is a separate professional development component, or if there is a significant focus on accessing new audiences.

Has your project been declined previously by Creative New Zealand?
If yes, you will be eligible only if you've been advised to re-apply by Creative New Zealand staff.

Has any part of your project already been funded by Creative New Zealand, either directly or through the Creative Communities Scheme?
If yes, you may still be eligible to apply.

Has any part of your project received funding from another government organisation such as the New Zealand Lottery Grants Board or NZ on Air?
If yes, you may still be eligible to apply.

Is your project part of the core business of either a primary or secondary school, or tertiary institution (e.g. university or polytechnic)? If yes, is it:

specified in your employment agreement (including research)

an activity that the educational institution may receive funding for?

If yes, you are unlikely to be eligible for project funding.

If you are employed part-time or full-time by a tertiary institution your application should include a statement that the work you are applying for is not part of your employment contract. This statement should be verified in writing by your Head of Department or equivalent.

Applicant eligibility - individuals, groups, organisations

If you tick "yes" to one or more of the questions below then you are not eligible to apply.

* Do you or does a key member of your project have an overdue project report on a previous grant (e.g. more than 16 weeks after the project end date)?

* Have you or has a key member of your project sent in a late project report (after you received a second and final reminder letter) less than 16 weeks ago?

Are you an employee of Creative New Zealand, or a member of its Arts Council, the Arts Board, the Pacific Arts Committee or Te Waka Toi?

Are you an organisation that receives funding from the Ministry for Culture and Heritage?

Are you an employee of (or under contract to) one of Creative New Zealand's recurrently funded organisations? If yes, is the activity you're seeking funding for specified in your employment agreement or an activity that the recurrently funded organisation may receive funding for?

Are you an organisation that receives recurrent funding through Creative New Zealand's Arts Board or Te Waka Toi?
* For more information about what we mean by overdue project reports, please refer to FAQ no. 19.
If you answered "no" to all of the questions and you have checked your project timing (see above) then you are eligible to apply.

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