Queensland Arts Council and Heritage Building Society Arts Partnership Fund

Australia’s biggest building society and largest regional arts organisation formed a ground breaking partnership in 2004.

Over five years, with Heritage Building Society’s generous support, the Arts Partnership Fund has delivered multiple outcomes to regional Queensland communities, through a quarter of a million dollars in funds for 140 arts projects.

The Fund has proudly succeeded in achieving its goals of strengthening, enriching and engaging with regional communities, by funding arts performances, workshops, exhibitions and projects all around the state.

In 2006, the partnership was recognised when it won the Queensland Community Award at the Australian Business Arts Foundation (ABAF) Community Awards.

From 2005 – 2009, the Arts Partnership Fund:
•    Contributed $250,218 in funds
•    Funded 140 projects throughout rural, regional and remote Queensland
•    The funds leveraged a total of $864,705 in community arts and cultural activities

Six projects were funded in the final funding round at the end of 2009, all of them still to take place in the first half of 2010.

As the partnership has successfully met its objectives, both Queensland Arts Council and Heritage Building Society have decided not to continue with the Arts Partnership Fund to enable their efforts to be focused on other endeavours.

Arts organisations in regional, rural and remote Queensland can still apply for funding through the Regional Arts Fund and Quick Response Grants, both managed by Queensland Arts Council on behalf of the Commonwealth Department of the Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts (DEWHA).