Youth Arts Organisations 2021-22

DRILL Performance Company Inc. - $80 000 towards it’s 2022 Youth Dance Program

RANT Arts Ltd. - $62 315 towards Reclaim 2022, reactivating Devonport’s signature Youth Week event

Slipstream Circus - $50 143 towards Slipstream creates Pathways

Stompin Inc. - $27 542 towards delivering key projects in 2022 and 2023

Tasmanian Youth Orchestra - $40 000 towards presenting Play, Perform, Produce 2022

The peers considered the overall quality of the applications to the Youth Arts Organisations 2021-22 round and made the following comments:

• The peers recommended that all applicants (whether new or experienced) contact Arts Tasmania to make sure applications are in line with program guidelines.
• Organisations were strongly encouraged to engage with more diverse communities.
• Applicants should consider the diverse backgrounds of participants in their applications, and how this impacts the delivery of their projects.
• If the application included plans to involve Tasmanian Aboriginal cultural content or Tasmanian Aboriginal artists, the peers recommended that applicants talk to Arts Tasmania’s Program Officer – Aboriginal Arts and include evidence of consultation and planning for working with community.
• The peers recommended that applicants write in plain English and keep in mind that all applications to Arts Tasmania’s programs will be assessed by a multi art-form panel.
• The peers commended applications that demonstrated active participation of young people in the creative process, and demonstrated a need for the proposed activity.
• Stronger applications included targeted letters of support that spoke about the artistic integrity or benefit of the project and were relevant to Arts Tasmania’s funding rounds.
• The peers commended applications that thoroughly addressed the criterion of benefit, particularly around social health and wellbeing.
• Applications that have previously received funding should highlight the impacts this funding has had and how future support will enhance the organisation’s capacity.
• Organisations should openly explain whether funding will help to consolidate current practices, enable growth or a mixture of both.
• The peers felt that applications that addressed why the activity was important, and who wanted to do it, stood out in this round.
• Stronger applications were succinct and contained relevant information. Applicants should take care to make sure information in applications isn’t duplicated.
• Applicants were encouraged to check whether expenses were eligible (equipment cannot be purchased with grant funds under this program), and to seek guidance from Arts Tasmania if they were unclear.
• Applicants should provide assurance of eligibility, in particular, being clear about relationships and outcomes when working with schools, students and educational projects.
• Applicants were encouraged to develop clear and itemised budgets based on industry wages and rates.
• Budgets that included commentary around each item helped peers to understand the rationale, context, and relevance to the applicant’s proposed activity and artform and provided evidence of planning and research.

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