Toi Rangatahi arts funds

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Children and young people are happy and healthy

Status:
Embedded
Lead agency:
Ministry for Culture and Heritage (MCH)

Creative New Zealand launched three new funds in 2019 to support arts projects to help young New Zealanders (aged 10 to 25) to participate in, to lead, or to engage in high-quality arts projects and activities in their own communities. The funds focus on under-represented communities.

20 applications received funding totalling $737,681. They covered all art forms and included workshops, performance, exhibitions, street art and mentoring, with activity across regional centres including Waikato, Northland and Hawke’s Bay. The Leadership Fund (supporting ages 15-25) was repeated in 2019. Five projects were supported to a total of $48, 877.

The second round of all three funds was suspended due to COVID-19 and a new schedule was released in August 2020.