Funding for NSW First Nations-led music programs and resources

Overview

Funding can support the following activities: 

• skills, training and capacity building programs for artists, industry professionals and music businesses 
• programs to upskill industry professionals and music businesses in best practice and emerging trends and technologies including AI, marketing and promotion, cultural literacy and safety 
• programs and resources to improve well-being, support workplace and audience safety, accessibility, cultural safety and working with young people 
• industry-led marketing campaigns to promote music in NSW 
• initiatives that cultivate innovation, collaboration and partnerships locally and internationally 
• industry-led research and advocacy.

Check if you can apply

This program is open to First Nations NSW led music businesses or organisations that demonstrate an established ongoing connection to community through their work.

To be eligible to receive funding, applicants must:

• have a governing body that is majority First Nations people
• be currently based in NSW or deliver a significant contribution to the NSW contemporary music sector
• be an incorporated entity or trust (including a trust with a corporate or individual trustee) and hold an Australian business number (ABN), Australian company number (ACN), or
• be registered with NSW Fair Trading under the Associations Incorporation Act 2009 or the Co-operatives National Law (NSW) set out in the appendix to the Co-operatives (Adoption of National Law) Act 2012.