Understanding the Regional Arts Development Fund (RADF) categories

Do you have an exciting cultural project in mind? Need funding to get a project off the ground?

Or do you want to improve your skills base? Or have an innovative arts project which will benefit the community?

Maybe RADF can help.

Grant Category / Purpose Summary / What you need to explain through your application
1 – Developing Regional Skills / For individual professional artists seeking to further their career through development opportunities (e.g. seminars, master classes, workshops etc) / How your skills and career will be developed through your attendance at this event
2 – Building Community Cultural Capacity / For community groups to engage professional artists to conduct skills development workshops or community projects / How the skills of the members of your group will be developed and how the process will be conducted
3 – Interest-free arts loan / To produce great artistic product that will earn a profit and develop your career. You need to demonstrate a prior commitment from a distributor or producer that confirm revenue forecasts through sales / How you will market your product, demonstrate how it will be sold and the loan repaid.
4 – Cultural Tourism / To develop or market artistic product which focuses on locally distinct arts, culture and heritage – for members of our community and visitors / How your artistic product is distinct, how you will market it, and how it will benefit your career and/or the community
5 – Contemporary Collections and Stories / To preserve local collections of significance and collect and tell localstories from the past and present / Communityinterest and sense of ownership over the stories or collection and demonstrate state and/or localsignificance
6 – Regional Partnerships / For innovative and energizing arts and cultural projects where artists, communities and Council work together / Highlight what is artistically innovative about the project, and highlight partnerships and outcomes
7 – Concept Development / To research and develop artistic ideas and project proposals, up to implementation stage, and identify potential funding sources outside of RADF to implement them / Talk about the anticipated outcomes and identify how the concept will be implemented, funded and contribute to arts and cultural development

The above information is a guide only. Please carefully read the guidelines, application forms and further information available at

Applicants should also discuss RADF applications with council’s RADF Liaison Officer before applying – make an appointment today.

Phone 07 3283 0341 or

The Regional Arts Development Fund is a Moreton Bay Regional Council and Queensland Government partnership to support local arts and culture.

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