Creative Yarra 2017-2019
Creative Yarra offers three years of fixed funding from January 2017 to December 2019 for individual creative practitioners and organisations to deliver arts and cultural activities within the City of Yarra.
Creative Yarra is designed to provide security and reduce administration costs so that we can enable creative projects to be developed over a three year period, support our creative organisations to build greater capacity and to deliver the best outcomes in our City.
Successful applicants are offered three years of funding up to $20,000 per annum for organisations and up to $10,000 per annum for individuals with no further guarantees of future funding. Successful Creative Yarra applicants may apply for other funding initiatives offered by Council, but cannot be funded by multiple funding initiatives for the same activity.
Creative Yarra is open to organisations providing dynamic and valuable arts and cultural activities in the City of Yarra and prioritises those with a proven track record and well-articulated plans. Organisations may apply for operational and/or project funding. For the first time, Creative Yarra is also open to individual creative practitioners who will need to demonstrate a commitment to realising a project or body of work over a three year timeframe and be able to clearly demonstrate the outcomes of this work in their proposal.
The proposed activities may take any art form but must be of high cultural and artistic merit and show a clear relevance with Yarra’s community. Whilst innovation and dynamism are valued, the activity does not need to be new.
For more information see the Creative Yarra 2017-2019 Grant Guidelines and we encourage you to attend an information session about these grants that will take place at the Richmond Town Hall on Wednesday 1st June from 6pm.
Creative Yarra 2017 – 2019 will open for applications from Monday 30th May until Monday 11th July at 5pm.
IMPORTANT: Please read information below to assist you in completing your application online.
BEFORE YOU BEGIN
Welcome to the City of Yarra's Creative Yarra online grant application service, powered by SmartyGrants.
You may begin anywhere in this application form. Please ensure you save as you go.
For queries about the guidelines, deadlines, or questions in the form, please contact Yarra City Arts on (03) 9205 5555 during business hours or email info@yarracity.vic.gov.au and quote your application number.
The guidelines can be accessed via this link: Creative Yarra 2017-2019 Grant Guidelines .
If you need more help using this form, download the Help Guide for Applicants or check out Applicant Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ's)
NAVIGATING (MOVING THROUGH) THE APPLICATION FORM
On every screen (page of the form) you will find a Form Navigation contents box, this links directly to every page of the application. Click the link to jump directly to the page you want.
You can also click 'next page' or 'previous page' on the top or bottom of each page to move forward or backward through the application.
SAVING YOUR DRAFT APPLICATION
If you wish to leave a partially completed application, press 'save' and log out. When you log back in and click on the 'My Submissions' link at the top of the screen, you will find a list of any applications you have started or submitted. You can reopen your draft application and start where you left off.
You can also download any application, whether draft or completed, as a PDF. Click on the 'Download' button located at the bottom of the last page of the application form.
SUBMITTING YOUR APPLICATION
You will find a Review and Submit button at the bottom of the Navigation Panel. You need to review your application before you can submit it.
Once you have reviewed your application you can submit it by clicking on 'Submit' at the top of the screen or on the navigation panel. You will not be able to submit your application until all the compulsory questions are completed.
Once you have submitted your application, no further editing or uploading of support materials is possible.
When you submit your application, you will receive an automated confirmation email with a copy of your submitted application attached. This will be sent to the email you used to register.
If you do not receive a confirmation of submission email then you should presume that your submission has NOT been submitted.
ATTACHMENTS AND SUPPORT DOCUMENTS
You may need to upload/submit attachments to support your application. This is very simple, but requires you to have the documents saved on your computer, or on a storage device.
You need to allow enough time for each file to upload before trying to attach another file. Files can be up to 25MB each; however, we do recommend trying to keep files to a maximum of 5MB – the larger the file, the longer the upload time.
COMPLETING AN APPLICATION IN A GROUP/TEAM
A number of people can work on an application using the same log in details as long as only one person is working at a time. Ensure you save as you go.
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