About the Country Victoria Events Program
Tourism Victoria recognises that there are many events being held in regional areas that have the potential to achieve a State or national profile and can develop into key regional events. The Country Victoria Events Program assists with this development.
Tourism Victoria provides resources and advice to assist in the facilitation and enhancement of regional events. Up to $150,000 per year (over two funding rounds) is allocated to the Country Victoria Events Program. The program focuses on events that are able to attract, or are likely to attract in the future, a number of intrastate and interstate visitors. For each single allocation, up to $10,000 (excluding GST) may be provided.
There are two rounds of funding per year - 1 April and 1 October.
For further information visit Tourism Victoria's industry website - http://www.tourism.vic.gov.au/marketing/marketing/events-marketing/
Guidelines & Application Form
To obtain a copy of the Guidelines & Application Form log onto: http://www.tourism.vic.gov.au/marketing/marketing/events-marketing/
Templates
Tourism Alliance Victoria are still keen to assist event organisers in further developing their events and will continue to provide access to series of templates to assist regional events to market and promote, plan and conduct visitor research for their event. Click on one or more of the following templates to download:
Event Research
"Do It Yourself" Kit
A Do It Yourself management research kit has been developed to provide festival & event managers with a tool to evaluate the impact of their event to their region using an economic impact assessment model.
For more information log on to www.arts.vic.gov.au.
visitvictoria.com
What is visitvictoria.com? visitvictoria.com is Australia’s most visited state tourism website, which received over 5.3 million visits and 34.8 million page views from consumers over the last 12 months. click here and have a look at why you should have your event listed on visitvictoria.com
Tourism Alliance Victoria are responsible for the uploading of events onto visitvictoria.com and each event wishing to be included on the website will be required to fill in a form providing all the relevant event details. This form is included in the Guidelines and Application Form or click here to download form separately.
Other funding programs
Festivals Australia
http://www.dcita.gov.au/Article/0,,0_1-2_2-3_462-4_11106,00.html
Vic Health (Community Festivals Scheme)
http://www.vichealth.vic.gov.au
Arts Victoria (Local and Major Festivals Funding)
http://www.arts.vic.gov.au
Tourism Victoria (Events Funding Program)
http://www.tourismvictoria.com.au
Philanthropy Australia
http://www.philanthropy.org.au/funding.htm
Parks Victoria
http://www.parkweb.vic.gov.au
The Multicultural Festival & Events Program
http://www.multicultural.vic.gov.au
Community Development Program (Regional Development Victoria)
http://www.business.vic.gov.au
Local History Grants Program
http://www.prov.vic.gov.au/lhgp/welcome.asp
Department of Sport and Recreation
http://www.sport.vic.gov.au
