25 Jan 2024 – Documentary Australia Foundation – Fiscal Sponsorship This program aims to support independent documentary filmmakers in utilising their films to create positive change in the world. It will elevate projects in all stages of development, production, post-production, distribution, outreach and impact campaigns helping filmmakers who may otherwise not be able to secure the funding they need to see their projects financed, finished and unleashed to have impact.

26 Jan 2025 – Band Association of NSW – Community Band Development Grants Provides funding to support the development and promotion of bands within NSW communities.

27 Jan 2025 – Band Association of NSW – Community Band Development Grants Funding is available to support and promote banding by means of increasing banding activity within NSW communities, increasing performance standards and growing audience numbers.

29 Jan 2025 – Documentary Australia Fiscal Sponsorship
Grants fiscal sponsorship to independent documentary filmmakers with a quality social impact project. 

4 Feb 2025 – Creative Australia – Storytelling and Recording: First Nations Project Fund  supports First Nations media organisations and individuals in creating and sharing culturally significant arts and cultural content. This includes community-based radio and television broadcasting, cultural recordings, community storytelling, and technical media training. 

4 Feb – Creative Australia – International Travel Fund The International Travel Fund supports international travel costs associated with Australian artists, creative workers and organisations attending market development or key gatherings overseas.

14 Feb 2025 – Screen Australia – Proper Loved Up Initiative This program aims to upskill and develop screen practitioners, giving them vital screen credits and be conceived by a First Nations creative.

16 Feb 2025 – Art Music Fund Supports new work that is innovative, displays professional compositional craft and represents a benchmark of excellence in its field.

21 Feb 2025 –The Community Building Partnership (CBP) grant (opening on 28 January 2025)This program awards grants for community infrastructure projects that deliver positive social, environmental and recreational outcomes while also promoting community participation, inclusion and cohesion.

23 Feb – National Regional Arts Fellowships
Aims to benefit regional and remote arts practitioners, arts workers, audiences and communities.

3 Mar 2024 – Creative Australia – Playing Australia: Project Investment. This program aims to support performing arts tours to reach regional and remote communities across Australia. It supports organisations to undertake performing arts tours to reach regional and remote communities across Australia.

3 Mar 2025 – Cultural Fund – Create Grants
Offers grants to Australian creative writers and visual artists to create new work.

4 Mar 2025 – Community Broadcasting Foundation – Specialist Radio Programming Grants  This program aims to assist with the development, production and broadcast costs of specialist radio programming content to meet the needs of particular communities.

4 Mar 2025 – Community Broadcasting Foundation – Content Grants This program aims to increase and diversify the voices heard in Australian media by supporting the creation of compelling content.

4 Mar 2025 – Community Broadcasting Foundation – Development & Operations Grants This program aims to support community media organisations to be healthy, resilient, and robust. In turn this will help create a stronger society based on greater participation, engagement, and cohesion.

4 Mar 2025 – Creative Australia – Arts Projects Individuals and Groups This program aims to fund a range of activities for individuals and groups that deliver benefits to the arts sector and wider public, including national and international audiences and communities.

4 Mar 2025 – Contemporary Music Touring Program
Supports national touring activity undertaken by Australian musicians performing original contemporary music.

4 Mar 2025 –Playing Australia Project Investment
Supports organisations to undertake performing arts tours to reach regional and remote communities across Australia.

4 Mar 2025 – Playing Australia: Regional Performing Arts Touring Fund Supports performing  arts to reach regional and remote communities across Australia.

4 Mar 2025 –Creative Australiaa – Arts Projects for Organisations
Funds a range of activities that deliver benefits to the arts sector and wider public, including national and international audiences and communities. 

4 Mar 2025 –Creative Australia – International Travel Fund $5,000 to $20,000 to support travel costs associated with attending key market development and cultural exchange platforms and gatherings.

13 Mar 2025 – Screen Australia – Documentary Production: Producer Program – This program aims to provide producers with the flexibility to drive projects both creatively and commercially, with Screen Australia funding as the foundation for growing and securing deals. It is designed to support innovative, distinctive and engaging documentaries with a strong creative vision in the context of today’s evolving media and distribution landscape and the commercial realities of increasingly fragmented sources of finance.

17 Mar 2025 – Sound NSW – Venue Upgrade Grants Program. This program aims to support NSW contemporary live music venues with varied experience in live music programming to increase the number of fit-for-purpose live music venues across the state and support them to be better equipped to enhance the audience experience.

17 Mar 2025 – Create NSW – Arts and Cultural Funding Program: Creative Industries (Connectivity) This program aims to fund for new collaborative opportunities between the arts and cultural sector and the creative industries.

21 Mar 2025 – Cultural Grants Program Supports Aboriginal community organisations across NSW to celebrate Aboriginal culture and hold key cultural events and activities.

28 Mar 2025 The Stronger Communities Programme – (opening 14Feb) provides grants of between $2,500 and $20,000 to community organisations and local governments for infrastructure projects that deliver social benefits for local communities

31 Mar 2025 – Essential Grants The program aims to support eligible community groups contributing towards positive outcomes for regional communities. Grants up to the value of $15,000 are available for community-based initiatives supporting the environment, education, resilience or related to the energy transition.

30 Apr 2025 – Arts and Cultural Funding Program – 2-Year Multi-year Funding opens 24 Mar 2025 – 2-Year Multi-year funding provides core investment to the NSW arts and cultural sector to support sustainable growth of the industry, with a focus on all NSW citizens being given the opportunity to contribute to and experience arts and culture.

30 April 2025 – Contemporary Music Festival Viability Fund NSW contemporary live music festivals will be supported through Sound NSW’s new two-year funding program which  supports existing large-scale contemporary music festivals presented in NSW with a track record of delivering significant outcomes for contemporary music.

30 Apr 2025 – National Energy Bill Relief for Small BusinessesThe Commonwealth Government has announced that all eligible small businesses will receive up to $325 to help with the cost of their electricity bills in the financial year 2024–25.

30 Jun 2025 – Regional Filming Fund Offsets costs associated with shooting in regional areas of NSW. The objectives of the program are to:
– Increase economic activity in regional NSW, by encouraging NSW screen productions to film outside of metropolitan areas
– Enable regional NSW to benefit from the growth of film and television production in the State.

30 Jun2025 – North Queensland Production Incentive, attracts footloose screen productions to North Queensland.

28 Nov 2025 – Touring and Travel Fund Offers quick response funding for domestic and international touring and travel activity for NSW contemporary music artists, acts and music industry professionals.

 30 Nov 2025  – (1 Feb 2025 opens) –Regional Arts Fund – Quick Response Grants Assists regional NSW artists, arts organisations and communities with funds for professional or skills development, or small project opportunities, at short notice.