New Zealand Lottery Grants Board Distribution of Funds

STATUTORY BODIES
Statutory body grants for the
financial year 2008/09
Recipient Amount
Creative New Zealand 22,125,000
New Zealand Film Commission 9,587,500
Sport and Recreation New Zealand 30,980,000
CREATIVE NEW ZEALAND
Creative New Zealand’s work is diverse,
ranging from grassroots projects through
to support for professional artists and
arts organisations. This is done primarily
through funding (including residencies and
fellowships). Creative New Zealand funds 35
professional arts organisations on a recurrent
basis, and each year offers approximately
500 grants to the arts and arts organisations
and, under the Creative Communities
Scheme, supports approximately 2,500 local
arts activities.
Creative New Zealand also offers capabilitybuilding
programmes, works to develop
markets and audiences for New Zealand
arts domestically and internationally, and
advocates for the arts and artists.
Examples of Creative New Zealand support
include:
Polyfest 2009
More than 90,000 people crowded the
Manukau Sports Bowl for four days in March
2009. About 9,000 students from almost
60 Ma- ori, Cook Island, Niuean, Samoan
and Tongan school cultural groups gave
passionate performances competing for their
schools. Creative New Zealand supports
Polyfest through its contestable funding
programme.
New Zealand Children and
Youth Circus
For two weeks in May, the strains of circus
music and the sight of children learning to
juggle, clown, dance and perform acrobatics
transformed Te Uku primary school in Raglan.
Loud applause filled the air when the kids
displayed their new circus skills to the rest
of their school and wha- nau on the last day
of term. The programme was run by the
New Zealand Children and Youth Circus
and funded by the Raglan Community Arts
Council and Creative New Zealand’s Creative
Communities Scheme.
40 Lottery Grants Record 2008–2009 Statutory Bodies