What is the Creative Communities Scheme?
Creative New Zealand spends over $3.2 million each year supporting around 1,800 projects through the Creative Communities Scheme (CCS). Creative Bay of Plenty, on behalf of Western Bay of Plenty District Council, administers the CCS for the Western Bay region. Western Bay stretches from Waihī Beach to Ōtamarākau, and excludes Tauranga, Mount Maunganui, and Pāpāmoa.
CCS aims to increase participation from the local community in the arts sector, support the diversity of local cultural traditions and encourage and engage young people to participate in local arts. ‘Arts’ is broadly defined to mean all forms of creative and interpretative expression.
