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Every year, Creative New Zealand allocates CCS funding to local and district councils across New Zealand. Councils then distribute the funds in their respective areas, and this initiative supports over 1,800 projects annually.
Napier City Council collaborates with Creative New Zealand to offer financial assistance to groups, organisations, and individuals who contribute to the local creative community. The grants usually range from $500 to $2,500. There are two funding rounds per annum that open in January (for projects that start after 1 April) and August (for projects that start after 1 October).
For more information, please contact the Community Funding Advisor at csgrants@napier.govt.nz.
Smarty Grants is an online portal that allows grant makers to track their progress and receive notifications on upcoming grant opportunities, ensuring that they are always up-to-date with the latest information. Smarty Grants simplifies the grant application process, providing organisations, groups and individuals with access to a wide range of funding opportunities. This means applicants will now need to create a Smarty Grants profile to apply for funding.
No hard copy applications will be accepted, and no late applications will be considered.
For more information on Smarty Grants and how to sign up visit our Smarty Grants info page here.
Any group, organisation or individual may apply, though individuals must be a New Zealand citizen or permanent resident. Your project must meet one or more of the following criteria:
As well as the above criteria, these factors influence the committee's decision:
2022 - 2025 Napier City Council Local Funding Priorities
The decision committee particularly encourage community art projects/events that are affordable and accessible to the community, and are:
Successful Applicants for Napier Creative Communities September 2023 |
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Organisation/Individual |
Project |
Approved Funding |
Creative Arts Napier Incorporated |
Seaweek 2024 Art Exhibition, Competition and Workshops. |
705 |
Disability Training Services HB Trust |
Rock band for adults with disabilities - a community collaboration between DTS EPIC pathways and the Napier music academy to support adults with disabilities who are enthusiastic about music. |
1,000 |
Putaanga Waitoa |
WHY TANGI -Curating an exhibition that features 14 artists and looks further into the pūrakau of Māui Tikitiki-a-Tāranga. The Trickster. |
1,500 |
Home Schooling |
Homeschool Choir. There was a desire to ensure that a minority group of students could contribute and be exposed to the creative arts. HBHC exposes tamariki to music, teaches singing and improves reading, listening and collaboration skills. |
500 |
Sarah Glatz |
Online Art and Craft Lessons. |
1,000 |
Creative Arts Napier Inc |
100 Days Napier - A mentored art journey over 100 days where artists grow their practice alongside other local artists culminating in a joint exhibition open to the public. |
2,005 |
Creative Arts Napier Inc |
Hawkes Bay Art Trail 2023 and creates an event where those participants in the art guide can open their studios for the weekend during the HB Arts Festival to visitors and locals. |
2,460 |
Bay Cities Symphonic Band Inc |
Extraordinary Machines of Clockwork and Steam - Public community symphonic band music concert by the Bay Cities' Symphonic Band at the Napier Waiapu Cathedral with guest performers the Octavius Choir. |
1,000 |
Creative Arts Napier |
After School Art Club Classes. |
653 |
Backline Charitable Trust |
HB Music Hub Website upgrade to make navigation easier for users. |
2,500 |
Rotary Club of Greenmeadows |
"Youthful Expressions: Art Unveiled in Hawke's Bay - hosting an exciting art exhibition and competition where young artists (ages 5-12) can show off their cool artwork. |
2,000 |
Napier Civic Choir |
Concert Weekend 3 from 27-29 October 2023. |
1,808 |
Napier Batucada Incorporated |
BAY BLOCO - To celebrate its ten-year anniversary, Hawke's Bay community music group BAY BATUCADA has created BAY BLOCO. A free public event will showcase performances by Bay Batucada as our way of saying thanks to the locals and businesses that have supported us over the last decade. |
759 |
Napier City Business Incorporated |
Activating Vacant Spaces Competition/Promotion - Art - An exciting initiative aimed at revitalizing the heart of Napier CBD while celebrating the richness of art and creativity in our community. The Competition provides an opportunity for artists of all ages to showcase their talent. |
1,000 |
Hōhepa Services Limited |
Hōhepa Rangitahi Waharoa Project - to create a wooden waharoa (entrance way) into the rangitahi area of the Hōhepa School in Poraiti. |
1,000 |
Kezia Joy Whakamoe |
Laptop for editing online wānanga - Editing equipment for online wānanga currently in production, replacement for laptop lost to floods at Waiohiki Creative Village. |
1,500 |
Roger Kelly |
Empowering creative journeys - An eight week community programme empowering creative journeys through workshop focusing on empowering participants to unpack and build habits for developing a personal creative practice. |
2,000 |
Kaisen Trust |
Christmas at the Park 2023 |
1,500 |
Happenings and Activations Society of Hastings Incorporated |
Fringe in the Stings 2023 - is Hawke's Bay's only Fringe Festival. The heart and Kaupapa of Fringe is that we are an affordable, accessible Arts Festival, aimed at the people of Hawke’s Bay and provide a development platform for emerging artists. Applying for marketing costs. |
2,500 |
Foto iwi Charitable Trust |
FOTOFEST photography festival event 2024 - We wish to provide community engagement and promotion for Napier through smaller events such as pop up photographic exhibitions/competitions as awareness for our main festival planned for September 2024. |
3,000 |
Small Hall Sessions Ltd |
The Small Hall Sessions - Over the next three months, from September to December the Small Hall Sessions will be touring 7 different musical acts to 20 different Community Halls across greater HB across 20 nights. |
2,500 |
Festivals Fund |
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Happenings and Activations Society of Hastings Incorporated |
Fringe in the Stings 2023 - Fringe in the 'Stings (FitS) is Hawke's Bay's only Fringe Festival. The heart and Kaupapa of Fringe is that we are an affordable, accessible Arts Festival, aimed at the people of Hawke’s Bay and provide a development platform for emerging artists.Fringe in the 'Stings has run annually since 2016, with the exception of 2021 when we had a Covid cancellation. |
2,000 |
Bay Music Group Ltd |
Outfield Music, Food and Arts Festival 2024 - this is a multidisciplinary project that ensures access to a diverse range of arts experiences including art, music, dance and food. Outfield 2024 is themed around connection, which has naturally developed from the relationships that have blossomed from the first festival which was in 2020. |
2,000 |
Small Hall Sessions Ltd |
A FESTIVAL of Small Hall Sessions - Throughout the year the Small Hall Sessions travel throughout the greater Hawke's Bay Region presenting musical artists of National and International repute in concerts held in Community Halls. Typically each tour is four to five consecutive nights, each in a different venue. |
2,500 |
Successful Applicants for Napier Creative Communities March 2023 |
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Organisation/Individual |
Project |
Approved Funding |
Napier Civic Choir |
Napier Civic Choir's Concert weekend 1 2023. Carmina Burana |
$2,000 |
Amanda Blewett |
Knitting for Victory - Revisited |
$500 |
Bay View Community Trust |
Le Quesne Road public toilet mural |
$6,900 |
IHC New Zealand |
Photography Workshop 2023 Project |
$1,450 |
The StarJam Charitable Trust |
StarJam Napier programme 2023 |
$4,000 |
Institute of Registered Music Teachers NZ - Hawke's Bay Branch |
Hawke's Bay Young Musician of the Year 2023 |
$2,000 |
Sukhdeep Singh |
Children's drawing competition for Diwali and Bandi Chhor Divas |
$3,350 |
Creative Arts Napier Inc (CAN) |
Hawke's Bay Art Guide and Trail |
$3,150 |
Ahuriri Kāhui Ako |
Kāhui Ako Community festival |
$4,450 |
Emma Bowyer |
BYOB : Bring Your Own Baby Comedy Club |
$7,500 |
Napier Live Poets |
Napier Live Poets |
$552.00 |
Total Funds Distributed |
35,852.00 |
Successful Applicants for Napier Creative Communities September 2022 | ||
Organisation/Individual | Project | Approved Funding |
Creative Arts Napier | Nuit Blanche Interactive Art activity; 'Colour My Blooms' | 2,220.23 |
Creative Arts Napier | Creative Arts Napier After School Art Club | 1,223.50 |
The Pencil Room | Life Drawing Napier | 1,320.00 |
Cheree Merlo | Creative Mask Challenge 2023 | 2,000.00 |
Every Body is a Treasure Trust | Napier District - Visual Poetry Jam Workshop & Virtual Master Classes | 600.00 |
Foto Iwi Charitable Trust | Happy Bay News Magazine and Media Project | 1,400.00 |
Happenings and Activation Society Hastings | Fringe in the 'Stings 2022 | 1,000.00 |
Hawke's Bay Community Choir | Come Together (provisional) | 1,730.00 |
Kaisen Charitable Trust | Christmas at the Park 2022 | 1,500.00 |
Uku Clay | Uku Clay Hawke's Bay Catalogue 2022 | 1,400.00 |
Wine Country Quilts | Wine Country Quilts Exhibition 2023 | 2,753.00 |
Hawke's Bay Photography Society | Photographic Exhibition at CAN | 1,500.00 |
Napier Arts Club | Watercolour in Action | 1,000.00 |
Waiohiki Creative Arts Village | Fire Arts Workshop | 1,200.00 |
Tamaki Shimaoka | 3D Pavement Mural | 650.00 |
Angeline Chand | Hawke's Bay Bandi Chorr Divas and Diwali - Lighting and Rangoli Competitions | 2,000.00 |
Richmond Palleson | Dawn of a New Metal Season 2 | 773.00 |
Christie Wright | Before the Bikini - A Celebration Of Art Deco Era Swimwear | 540.00 |
Sophie England | The Pop Up | 1,053.00 |
Total Funds Distributed | 25,862.73 |
Successful Applicants for the Napier Creative Communities March 2022 | ||
Organisation/Individual | Project | Approved Funding |
Hastings Art & Culture Trust | Edible Fashion Awards 2022 | 4,000 |
Institute of Registered Music Teachers NZ (HB Branch) | Hawke's Bay Young Musicians of Year 2022 | 2,000 |
Little Green Man Productions | Matariki Glow Show 2022 – giant scale puppet show | 1,817 |
Uku Clay HB | Uku Clay Hawke's Bay 2022 Exhibition | 2,000 |
Photo Iwi | Happy Bay News - youth workshops and publication | 1,800 |
StarJam | StarJam - workshops and performance | 3,000 |
Campbell Burns | Droplets – a unique interactive sound art work | 1,000 |
Kathy Clark | Gumboots Brass and Wind Ensemble | 648 |
Napier Live Poets | Napier Live Poets - open mic gatherings and National Poetry Day event | 552 |
Karen Leslie - Hawke's Bay Comedy | Peak Comedy – stand-up comedy shows, including visiting comics | 2,000 |
Total Funds Distributed (GST Excl) | $18,817 |
Successful Applicants for the Napier Creative Communities September 2021 | ||
Recipient | Project Name | Approved Funding |
Creative Arts Napier | Hawke's Bay Art Trail (supply and identifying flags for each Napier artist studio on the HB Art Trail) | 1,500 |
Creative Arts Napier | CAN Artist in Residence 2022 (wish to establish an annual emerging Artists in Residence opportunity) | 1,110 |
Foto Iwi Trust | Foto Iwi Workshop/Rangatahi Magazine (work together to produce the 'Happy Bay News' magazine, focused on culture, diversity and environment) | 2,136 |
Hawke's Bay Readers and Writers Trust | 2021 Hawke's Bay Readers and Writers Festival (an opportunity for established and emerging writers to come together with leader writers in literary events unique to HB) | 2,165 |
Hawke's Bay Orchestra | Carols by Candlelight Concert (full strength orchestra, soloists and choir, with members from Prima Volta to perform the LED candlelight concerts on stage) | 2,750 |
IHC New Zealand | Beginners Photography workshop project (for people with disabilities to develop skills in a creative art form) | 1,300 |
Kaisen Trust | Christmas at the Park 2021 (public community event showcasing local and NZ artists , and Kapa Haka groups performing to a large audience) | 1,000 |
Keirunga Theatre Collective | Pirate Kai (a theatre production for young children about wellbeing, healthy relationships and creativity) | 2,372 |
StarJam Charitable Trust | StarJam (music workshops and public performances for people isolated by disability) | 2,750 |
Taradale Pottery Group | Taradale Pottery Exhibition ( for special needs students to promote diversity in Clay) |
2,400 |
Robert Fugah | African Songs, Drumming and Dance Workshops- African Culture to Napier | 2,250 |
Cherie Meerlo | Creative Mask Challenge 2022 (invite primary and intermediate aged children to participate in a creative mask making competition and an exhibition for recycled materials and natural fibres) | 2,750 |
Waiapu Cathedral Choir | 2021 Sing-in at the Cathedral (open to all interested parties, with a 2-3 hour learning session and performance to audience and friends) | 974 |
Clayton Guthrie | Expression of my Growth (exhibit in a Brain Injury exhibition showcasing Art Deco and wineries, and original work) | 1,200 |
The Secret Keeper | The Secret Keeper (exhibition of sculptures, video, photographic prints and a book which discuss childhood sexual abuse) | 2,500 |
Hawke's Bay Indian Assn | Diwali 2021 (major event in the Hindu culture that symbolises the spiritual 'victory of light over darkness, good over evil and knowledge over ignorance') | 2,750 |
Bay Music Group Ltd | Outfield Festival 2022 (music, food and arts festival to foster local artists with an opportunity to showcase their talents) | 2,000 |
Kami Bay | Batik workshop, exhibition and fashion show 2021 (to introduce the Traditional Indonesian textile to the Hawkes's Bay community) | 2,000 |
Richmond Palleson | Dawn of a New Metal Season (an opportunity for local Hawke's Bay musical artists to showcase to a crowd) | 500 |
Rakuto Kurano | Rakuto Kurano "Duplexity" concert tour (performing three new commissioned works and classics as a young composer) | 450 |
Total Funds Distributed | $36,857.00 |
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