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(18) A total of $85,000.00 (GST exclusive) was available in the 2018-19 funding round for the 2019 National Multicultural Festival Grant Program. Organisations could apply for a grant up to the value of $8,000.00 (GST exclusive).
a) 102 applications were received under the 2019 National Multicultural Festival Grant Program. Of these, 2 applications did not have a funding request attached to them and 1 organisation submitted 3 applications.
b) 2 applicants received the full amount of funding requested. These were:
i) Celebrations of African Australians ACT Inc received funding of $8,000.00 (GST exclusive); and
ii) Canberra India Council received funding of $8,000.00 (GST exclusive).
c) A total of 79 applicants received partial funding for their project. Please refer to Attachment B.
d) A total of 17 applications were unsuccessful. Please refer to the answer to f)(iv) below.
e) A total of $85,400 (GST exclusive) was allocated through the 2019 National Multicultural Festival Grants Program.
f) The 2019 National Multicultural Festival Grant Program was the first year in which Festival grants were provided as a discreet program separate from the Multicultural (Participation) Grants Program. To provide data regarding unsuccessful Festival applications from past grants programs would require considerable manual handling and may not be reliable, as the grants program was not specific to the Festival. On that basis, we do not have a breakdown of data for 2016, 2017 and 2018.
In 2018-19, 17 applications were unsuccessful. Correspondence sent to these applicants included reasons why their application was unsuccessful. Below is a summary of reasons for applications that were not recommended for funding:
• 5 applications sought funds for activities which were referred for the entertainment component of the program;
• 4 applications were not eligible as the applicants had outstanding acquittals from previous grants rounds;
• 4 applicants sought funds for projects that fall outside the criteria set for the Participation (Multicultural) Grants Program;
• 2 applicants withdrew;
• 1 application was incomplete and the applicant was advised to submit a new application;
• 1 applicant was found to have inconsistencies in their financial arrangements.
(19) For past years including 2015-16 and 2016-17, determining staffing numbers working on the Festival has not been possible as no staff were specifically allocated to the Festival. Instead, Community Services Directorate staff were made available to work on Festival function on an as-needs basis and any staffing costings referenced in the past have been estimates.
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