Michael Donnelly, My Fathers Garden, mixed media, 2020. Image credit Mia Zapata.
Create NSW administers grant funding for cultural infrastructure projects across metro and regional NSW.
This supports a range of arts and cultural organisations to improve access to cultural activities for local communities and visitors.
Creative Capital Fund
The Creative Capital Fund helps communities across NSW by providing grants to build or improve cultural infrastructure such as museums, theatres, galleries and Aboriginal cultural centres. It helps to fund new infrastructure or to upgrade existing cultural infrastructure to make existing spaces fit for purpose.
Hundreds of projects in all regions of NSW have benefitted from this funding.
See complete list of recipients on the Creative Capital Fund page.
Flood recovery grants
As part of the Community Local Infrastructure Recovery Package (CLIRP), $30 million in funding was administered by Create NSW to support the repair and recovery of arts and cultural infrastructure damaged by the devastating floods of February 2022.
Some recent funding programs include:
- Community Local Infrastructure Recovery Package - Arts and Culture Priority Needs Program (PNP Arts) - Provides funding to support assessment and planning and urgent small-scale repair and replacements for arts and cultural infrastructure assets most affected by the February - March 2022 floods.
- Community Local Infrastructure Recovery Package - Arts and Cultural Assets Program (ECAP Arts) - Community Local Infrastructure Recovery Package - Arts and Cultural Assets Program (ECAP Arts) Supports arts and cultural organisations to rebuild and recover and while at the same time provide arts and cultural experiences that are crucial to community wellbeing.
Regional Cultural Fund
The Regional Cultural Fund (RCF) has provided strong support for the development of cultural infrastructure in regional NSW. The RCF aims to strengthen regional arts, screen, culture and heritage, and revitalise local communities through strategic investment.
Over three rounds, $100 million was shared across 146 projects, ranging from new exhibition and performing arts spaces, refurbishments of libraries, theatres and museums through to small, grass-roots community projects and digitisation schemes.
Find funding and support
For current funding opportunities see Create NSW Get funding and support pages.
For EOIs related to public art or leasing facilities, see our Cultural infrastructure pages.
For a look at major cultural infrastructure projects we support (such as for state cultural institutions such as Art Gallery of NSW) see our Projects section.