Regional Quick Response Grant

There are no RQRG funds available until further notice.

Please note - a phonecall to your Regional Arts Fund Manager (3004 7510) or Funding Officer (3004 7501) to discuss your project is essential before submitting your Quick Response Grant Application.

Regional Quick Response Grants offer assistance up to $1,500 to individuals or organisations for projects that demonstrate a community benefit and are unable to source funds elsewhere.  Applications for this program can be received at any time and an answer given to its success or otherwise within 5 business days.  The Quick Response Grant Scheme operates during the months of February to November each year.

Fund Guidelines
This scheme is a part of the Regional Arts Fund, a Commonwealth Government initiative through the Department of the Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts (DEWHA). In Queensland, it is managed by Queensland Arts Council.

Objectives
The program provides support for professional or community skills development and other opportunities for the development of cultural activities in regional Queensland, particularly in remote areas.

Criteria
Guidelines are set by the Federal Government and Regional Arts Australia.

Proposals should:

• specify the not-for-profit, legally incorporated organisation that will auspice the project
• demonstrate that there is no other funding program for which the proposal is elibible either by its nature or its timing
• demonstrate that funding is urgently required to ensure the success or the completion of the project

Grants to a maximum of $1,500 are available to:

• assist Regional Artists, arts organisations and communities who would otherwise be disadvantaged by being ineligible for other forms of financial assistance
• provide opportunities for professional or skills development through participation in arts activities and workshops (the proposal should demonstrate how such professional development will benefit the regional community)
• provide opportunities for regional communities to employ professional artists to conduct seminars and forums which develop skills within the community
• enable communities to bring artists or arts workers into their community to assist in the concept development of more significant arts projects
• assist in the participation or development of the arts and culture within regional communities.

Projects will not be considered where they are:

• for ongoing administration costs of an organisation associated with a project
• Individual professional development that does not connect to regionally identified cultural priorities or have a clear community benefit (e.g. individual exhibition costs, self-publishing, attending entertainment events) 
• for infrastructure projects or purchase of assets
• for heritage activities (although arts projects located at heritage buildings or sites are eligible)
• for ongoing activities of collecting institutions
• for touring projects that primarily involve touring from major urban centres to regional, remote or very remote/isolated communities
• for components of festivals already in receipt of Commonwealth funding through Festivals Australia, although other elements of the same festival are eligible
• for the core costs of organising and running competitions, prizes, awards or fundraising events
• part of normal curriculum-based activities in schools (including school musicals and excursions), or courses of ongoing education and training in government or private institutions in Australia or overseas, academic activity, including wages or course work that is required as part of any academic program
• completed, repeated or have already commenced, but further stages of a completed project are eligible
• projects managed by grantees who have not acquitted previous grants from the Regional Arts Fund or any other Australian Government funding program
• for projects outside the geographic area designated by the Australian Government for the Fund.  Ineligible cities include Brisbane, Ipswich, Gold Coast, Logan and Redland.  Ineligible regional councils include Moreton Bay and Sunshine Coast.

Eligibility
All regional arts and community groups and individual artists are eligible for funding. Groups should be a not-for-profit, legally incorporated organisation that is registered in Queensland (or have another not-for-profit, incorporated group that is prepared to auspice the grant on their behalf). For the purposes of this component of the Regional Arts Fund, 'regional' is defined as anywhere in Queensland outside the Brisbane / Ipswich / Caboolture / Sunshine Coast / Gold Coast hub.

Grants
This program provides grants up to a maximum of $1,500.

Applications
Applications should be made on the appropriate Application Form (downloadable below) and forwarded to:
    
Regional Quick Response Grants
Queensland Arts Council
GPO Box  376
BRISBANE  QLD  4001

All sections must be completed. There is no closing date, but the fund is available 1 February - 30 November (or until available funds are used). All applications are assessed and responded to within 5 business days.

Acknowledgement
The source of funding must be publicly acknowledged on all promotional material by inclusion of the appropriate logo (to be supplied).  All media releases and, where space permits, all other publicity should carry the following accreditation:

This project has been made possible by a Regional Quick Response Grant - an Australian Government initiative through the the Regional Arts Fund, supporting the arts in regional and remote/isolated Australia.


Acquittals
The acquittal is to include a Report Letter with specific details of the benefits of the project and any statistical information considered relevant eg, artists employed, number of participants etc. The acquittal must also include the Outcome Report Form that will be distributed with each grant, must also be completed and returned.

It is very important that photographs, publicity material (indicating correct acknowledgment of the grant) and media cuttings be presented with the acquittal documentation. Failure to acquit projects by the due date may jeopardise future access to the fund.


For more information contact:
Queensland Arts Council
Ph: 07 3846 7500  Fax: 07 3846 7744 
Email info@qac.org.au