Creative Futures Fund 2025

The aim of the Creative Futures Fund is to invest in the creation and sharing of Australian stories through exceptional creative projects across all artforms that can clearly demonstrate ambition, audience reach and impact.  

Support through this Fund should enable projects to secure other significant partners and financial contributions from a range of sources.   

The Fund invests in projects through two streams, Development Investment and Delivery Investment. Both streams must tell Australian stories, and utilise Intellectual Property that is majority Australian owned.

Development – investments between $150,000 and $250,000 available 

Development investment supports the creation and testing of new ideas and works that utilise Australian intellectual property.  

Projects submitted for this stream must have a clear pathway towards a future public presentation for large Australian and/or international audiences. Applicants will need to articulate how they plan to secure partnerships and resource this future outcome. 

The aim of Development investment is to enable a new work to reach the point of proof of concept and thus be in a strong position to secure further investment, co-producing and / or presenting partners. 

Delivery - Investments between $250,000 and $1,500,000 available 

Delivery investment enables organisations and partners to present their creative projects to large, new and/or diverse audiences.  These projects can include new Australian works as well as projects that may use existing Australian intellectual property in new ways. 

It can include support for final stages of development of the work to reach presentation.