What kinds of activities does the program support?

The Touring Victoria program supports tours of professional productions, performances, exhibitions or programs (i.e. a literature event). Tours should also include supplementary community engagement activities such as workshops and talks. Tours need to demonstrate market demand and involve partnerships with presenting organisations, galleries or venues. Touring Victoria also supports touring by regional producers or artists to undertake tours to metropolitan Melbourne.

Which areas are classified as outer-metropolitan Melbourne?

For the purposes of this program, outer-metropolitan Melbourne includes the following local government areas: Brimbank City Council, Cardinia Shire Council, City of Casey, City of Greater Dandenong, Frankston City Council, Hume City Council, Knox City Council, Maroondah City Council, Melton City Council, Mornington Peninsula Shire Council, Nillumbik Shire Council, City of Whittlesea, Wyndham City Council and Yarra Ranges Shire Council.

Which areas are classified as regional Victoria?

There are 48 regional and rural council areas that make up Regional Victoria. Check the list of local government authorities in the Glossary under Regional Local Government Areas and Interface Local Government Areas.

Who is ineligible for Touring Victoria funding?

Applicants (including individuals who have been principal in an organisation) that have an overdue Creative Victoria (or former Arts Victoria) acquittal, and
Individuals/sole traders without an auspice.

What is not funded by Touring Victoria?

The following activities aren’t covered through Touring Victoria:

Touring costs funded by any other government program e.g. Playing Australia
Core marketing, administration and organisational overhead costs including salaries
Capital purchases or recurrent administrative/operational costs
Tours that are predominantly schools-based
Competitions, eisteddfods, awards or fundraising activities
Creative development of new work
Activities that do not follow correct protocols when working with First Peoples artists, content and/or communities
Reimbursement of expenses incurred before the grant is approved.
Activities that do not pay creatives/artists and crew at an industry standard rate (or higher).

I’m a sole trader. Can I apply?

You can apply but it must be under an auspice arrangement.

An auspice is a legally constituted organisation that becomes the official ‘recipient’ and will receive any funds allocated. The auspice is responsible for the management of the activity and acquittal of grant funds.

If you’re planning to have your grant managed by an auspice organisation, you must have agreement with that organisation before the closing date.

An auspicing organisation may charge you auspicing fees/costs. Grant funding can be used to cover auspicing fees/costs.

Who can auspice my grant?

Any legally constituted organisation may act as an auspice, except State-owned agencies, local government authorities, academic/training institutions and entities controlled/owned by education institutions.

On your application, you must fill in and attach the Auspice Form with details of the auspicing organisation, such as its legal name, ABN and contact details.

If I meet the eligibility criteria, am I guaranteed funding?

No. Demand for Creative Victoria funding is high, and this is a competitive program.

Please do not assume you’ll be successful, or enter into commitments based on that assumption, before receiving formal notification of the outcome of your application.

If you were successful once, that is no guarantee that you’ll be successful again.

Is Touring Victoria funding able to cover costs for non-Victorians?

Touring Victoria supports cross-border based arts companies and artists to tour high-quality productions, performances, exhibitions, events or programs in regional Victoria and outer metropolitan Melbourne. It does not support presentation of work at interstate or cross-border venues or events.

'Cross-border’ means the ‘significant’ border areas of Albury-Wodonga, Yarrawonga-Mulwala, Echuca-Moama and Mildura-Wentworth.

From time to time, Touring Victoria will allow grant budgets to include payment to non-Victorian services when the overall outcome of the project benefits an individual Victorian artist/creative professional or organisation, as per the assessment guidelines.

What do I need to include in my application?

To address the program assessment criteria, you will need to:

complete the application with information on the proposed tour/s or touring program, addressing the assessment criteria including a description of the tour, an outline of its management and an explanation of its benefits
provide details about tour destinations, the number of presentations and estimated audience numbers
provide a balanced budget (see the Creative Victoria Budget Drafting Tool available on the Touring Victoria funding page).
Complete the Tour Itinerary Template (available on the Touring Victoria funding page)
provide appropriate and relevant application support material and documents such as artistic credentials.

Assessment

Who will assess my application?

An Advisory Panel comprising of artists, touring sector professionals and community representatives assess and rank each eligible application against the program aims and assessment criteria.

First Peoples stream: Applications will be assessed by an assessment panel of First Peoples creative industries peers.
Deaf and Disabled stream: Applications will be assessed by a panel of creative industries peers with lived experience of deafness and disability
General Stream: Applications will be assessed by external creative industries peers.

Creative Victoria program staff and an appointed Chair attend the panel meetings. After the panel meetings, program staff consolidate panel recommendations and comments to develop a final list of recommendations for the Creative Victoria executive oversight panel before final recommendations are made for approval by the Minister for Creative Industries.

When will I know the outcome of my application?

It takes approximately 14-16 weeks from the closing date until funding results are available. You’ll be advised in writing of the outcome of your submission ahead of the activity start date for this round.

If I’m successful, when will I receive the funding?

You will receive a Common Funding Agreement if your application is successful.

The payment schedule and any relevant funding deliverable/milestones will be outlined in the funding agreement.

Once the agreement has been executed (i.e. accepted by the recipient and Creative Victoria), and you have satisfied any conditions and provided us with an invoice, then the grant payment will be made.