21 Feb 2025 –The Community Building Partnership (CBP) grant 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 2025 – National Regional Arts Fellowships Aims to benefit regional and remote arts practitioners, arts workers, audiences and communities.

28 Feb 2025 –  Regional Arts NSW – Regional Arts Fund: Quick Response Grants This program aims to support immediate needs that arise where the activity is unable to be planned for or supported in other funding rounds. It is one of the streams under the Regional Arts Fund that support artists and communities in regional and remote areas.

3 Mar 2025 – 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 GrantsThis 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.

7 Mar 2025 – Screen NSW – Made in NSW: TV Drama This program aims to support high-end feature film and television drama productions, produced by Australian production companies, which are genuinely footloose and can shoot in NSW.

10 mar 2025 – Sound NSW Contemporary Music Development Grants – First Nations Industry Development This program aims to support First Nations-led music programs and resources that build the capacity of artists, industry professionals and music businesses, address best practice and emerging trends, promote music in NSW and deliver research and advocacy.

10 Mar 2025 – Sound NSW Contemporary Music Development Grants – Industry Development This program aims to support industry-led programs and resources that build the capacity of artists, industry professionals and music businesses, address best practice and emerging trends, promote music in NSW and deliver research and advocacy.

10 Mar 2025 – Sound NSW Contemporary Music Development Grants – Recording, Content and PromotionThis funding program is designed for artists and acts with an existing body of work in contemporary music. It offers grants to support career sustainability through creation, recording and promotion of new and original contemporary music.

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.

17 Mar 2025 –Create NSW – Arts and Cultural Funding Program: Regional Arts Touring (Organisations) – This grant round is open to individual artists, arts and cultural workers, and organisations who are touring arts and cultural work across regional NSW.

17 Mar 2025 –Sound NSW’s Venue Upgrade Grants are designed 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. Through Program 1, venues who demonstrate a commitment to increasing live music programming may apply for grants to support advice from consultants and experts to create fit-for-purpose venues. 

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

27 Mar 2025 – Australian Screen Festivals Fund Funds festivals which exhibit unique benefits to the Australian screen industry and to Australian audiences, with up to three years of funding.

28 Mar 2025 – The Stronger Communities Programme – (opening 14 Feb) 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.

1 Apr 2025 – Creative Australia – Uplift: First Nations Digital Skills Program Uplift provides grants of up to $50,000 to support professional development, training and mentoring to build digital capability for First Nations artists and creative workers

1 Apr 2025 – Music Australia Export Development Fund – International Performance and Touring (Category 1) – This program aims to support international touring and showcase activities. It forms part of the Music Australia Export Development Fund which is designed to provide financial support to a diverse range of Australian artists at distinct phases of their international careers.

Grants between $5,000 and $25,000 are available.

1 Apr 2025 – Music Australia Export Development Fund – International Professional and Artistic Development (Category 2) – This program aims to support international professional development activities. It forms part of the Music Australia Export Development Fund which is designed to provide financial support to a diverse range of Australian artists at distinct phases of their international careers. Grants between $3,000 to $15,000 are available.

1 Apr 2025 – Music Australia Export Development Fund – International Market and Audience Development (Category 3) is designed to support activity that includes international promotional and content creation activities with matched funding of $2,000 to $10,000.

14 April 2024 – Sound NSW Venue Upgrade  Grants  up to $250,000 are available for dedicated live music venues through Program 2 to support venue upgrades that enhance audience and visitor experience, including sound, lighting and staging equipment and audio-visual technology, as well as infrastructure development works including soundproofing, ventilation, accessibility and energy efficiency improvements. 

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 Apr 2025 – 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.

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.

1 May 2025 – Churchill Fellowships Offer a diverse range of people from all walks of life an opportunity to travel overseas for four to eight weeks to explore a topic or issue that they are passionate about, and come back and share knowledge about international best practice and innovation. Applications from all sectors and in any field or topic of interest are encouraged.

30 May 2025 – Southern Highlands Symphony Orchestra (SHSO) 2025 Composer Competition for an original orchestral work. $4000 in prize money.

31 May 2025 –  QPRC Cultural Grants  –  aims to assist local arts, artists, musicians, performers, writers and arts/cultural groups to start and develop their own projects, and to improve the community’s opportunities for involvement in cultural and arts activities. Applications are open throughout the year, or until funds have been exhausted.

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 GrantsAssists regional NSW artists, arts organisations and communities with funds for professional or skills development, or small project opportunities, at short notice.