Wyndham City Creative Industries: Wyndham Make Music Day Grants

Make Music Day (21 June each year) is an internationally celebrated day of music making, featuring music in all its forms, encouraging people to band together and play in free public performances, jams or workshops, in many different locations.

The purpose of the Wyndham City Make Music Day Grants is to encourage and support accessible, participatory music-making activities, with a focus on developing the creative community within Wyndham. This funding supports individuals or groups to host free, accessible, open music-making activities in Wyndham on Make Music Day, Saturday 21 June 2025. There is a total grant pool of $6,000 with grants of either $500 or $1,000 being offered.

Make Music Day activities could take place in a variety of places within Wyndham (with appropriate permissions/licenses). Applicants are responsible for securing the appropriate venue or location to hold their activity.

Make Music Day activities must be free. One of the founding principles of this global celebration is that the events are free at the point of entry and therefore accessible to the greatest number of people.

Individual applicants must live within Wyndham City, or organisation applicants must have a strong existing connection with Wyndham City. All activities must be delivered within the Wyndham City area.

Successful applicants will be expected to be dedicated to developing and delivering their chosen activity and reporting outcomes upon completion.

Grant Objectives

  1. To encourage and promote music-making activity in Wyndham.
  2. To support networks and connections between creative communities in Wyndham.

Make Music Day activities can include, but are not limited to:

  • live performance for live audience
  • hosting an open rehearsal
  • hosting an open music jam
  • hosting an open music workshop

Applicants can include:

  • musicians - amateur or professional
  • bands or ensembles
  • community music groups
  • schools or other training institutions (for extra curricula activities)
  • private music teachers
  • producers, presenters or venues

Examples of support Council may consider funding include, but are not limited to: 

  • venue hire
  • artist fees
  • artist travel
  • catering
  • promotion
  • production / equipment hire
  • permits or licenses

Examples of venues or locations where activities could take place include, but are not limited to:

  • established music venue
  • hall / community centre
  • church
  • library
  • shopping centre / retail store
  • outdoor space such as park, garden, town square

Applications will be assessed against the following key assessment criteria: 

  • meeting grant eligibility requirements
  • alignment with grant objectives 
  • articulation of proposed activity and perceived merits
  • demonstration of capacity for delivery of the proposed activity

Make Music Day Grants Key Dates

  • Friday 4 April: Applications go live
  • Monday 21 April 11.59pm: Deadline for applications
  • Wednesday 23 April: Notification of outcomes
  • Wednesday 30 April: Acceptance paperwork due
  • Monday 26 May: Deadline for completing promotion tasks 
  • Saturday 21 June: Make Music Day
  • Monday 30 June: Due date for acquittal items

How to get involved 

Applications open on Wednesday 2 March 2025 and close on Monday 21 April 2025 at 11.59pm.

Apply here for a Make Music Day Grant.

More Information

For enquiries about the application process, please contact Sarah Wade at the Arts & Culture Team at arts@wyndham.vic.gov.au

Picture Credit: performance by Peace Choir Wyndham, photographer Artificial Studios

Successful Applicant Rquirements

Responsibilities of successful applicants:

  • Sign an agreement
  • Develop, deliver and acquit their proposed music activity
  • Promotion as per requirements below
  • Ensure the activity is free for participants or audiences
  • Submit acquittal items as per requirements below

Successful applicants will be required to promote their activity as follows:

Successful applicants will be required to submit the following acquittal items by Monday 30 June 2025:

  • 5-10 still images and video footage of approx. 1-minute duration of your activity taking place, submitted to Wyndham City Arts & Culture. Applicant will ensure appropriate photography permissions have been received. 
  • A written summary report of 250-500 words describing the activity, planning and promotion, who was involved, who participated or observed, benefits and challenges of running the activity, and what the funds were spent on, submitted to Wyndham Arts & Culture.
  • Completion of a post event survey issued by Wyndham City Council
  • A selection of photos and/or video uploaded to Make Music Day website https://makemusicaustralia.org.au/

Make Music Day Grant Terms and Conditions

By applying for a Make Music Day Grant (‘grant’), you agree to be bound by these terms and conditions. If your application does not comply with these terms and conditions, it will not be valid and will not be considered. 

These terms and conditions should be read in conjunction with any relevant grant information, such as your application form and the information published on Council’s website.

  1. ELIGIBILITY
    1.1To be eligible for a grant, applicants must:
    (b) Be a resident of the City of Wyndham and
    (c) be compliant with all relevant local, state and federal legislation

    1.2 Applications will not be accepted from:
    (a) Council staff, Councillors and their family members.
    (b) applicants that have failed to provide satisfactory acquittal reporting for any previous Council funding; or
    (c) applicants that are currently declared bankrupt or who are undergoing any form of insolvency event.

  2. APPLICATIONS

    2.1 To apply for a grant, you must submit a properly completed application form at [insert URL] between 2 and21 April 2025. Applications received outside of this period will not be accepted.
    2.2 Council will not seek to correct errors in applications.  Applications will be assessed as they have been submitted.
    2.3 Council reserves the right to request further information when considering applications, and the right to reject any application that is ineligible or does not meet the assessment criteria.

  3. ASSESSMENT OF APPLICATIONS

    3.1 Applications will be assessed by a panel of Council staff who will make recommendations to the relevant Manager.
    3.2 The Manager will determine the outcome of all applications that have been recommended by the assessment panel.
    3.3 Council reserves the right to approve a lesser or greater amount of funds applied for. All applicants will be notified in writing of the outcome of their application.

  4. NO LOBBYING

    No consideration will be given to applications submitted by applicants who have canvassed or lobbied Councillors or Council staff in relation to their application. 

  5. SUCCESSFUL APPLICANTS

    Successful applicants:

    5.1 must enter into a funding agreement with Council and comply with the terms and conditions of the funding agreement. 
    5.2 may be required to submit a report that sets out how the funds were utilised and short-term funding outcomes. This report may be requested at any time within 12 months of the funds being provided. The particulars of the evaluation process will be outlined in the funding agreement.

  6. CONFIDENTIALITY

    6.1 Applications are confidential and will only be disclosed in accordance with these terms and conditions, or as required by law.
    6.2 Applicants acknowledge and agree that their names, their grant details and the amount of funding requested and/or awarded may be made publicly available by Council and may be utilised in reports to Council and for use in grant-related marketing material.

  7. GENERAL

    7.1 Council accepts no responsibility for late, lost, incomplete, invalid or corrupt applications.
    7.2 Council reserves the right to modify these terms and conditions at any time, without prior notice.
    7.3 Council’s decisions are final, and no correspondence will be entered into. 

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