Arts organisations - annual programs 2023-24

The peers discussed the overall quality of the applications to this highly competitive round.

Stronger applications included:

• plans to deliver a range of activities to take place in Tasmania  with evidence of consideration of different communities that could be involved, either as participants or audiences
• information around all activities planned for the year, and clear alignment between the activities and level of funding requested
• plain language (avoiding jargon or artform specific language)
• current letters of support (signed and dated) speaking to the specific activities covered in the application
• evidence and/or testimonials to support any claims made in the application, especially confirmations of support and/or key partnerships.

The peers discussed the importance of support material, and noted that the stronger applications included support material that was:

• clearly labelled and concise – particularly in reference to strategic plans (with applicants encouraged to direct peers to the most relevant pages of key documents)
• consolidated (with applicants encouraged to combine multiple items of artistic support material into a single document if possible)
• well-curated (peers noted that support material should be relevant to the activities covered in the application, and up to date)
• easily accessible (web links should be active, with links to membership only sites discouraged)
• within the suggested limits – particularly when linking to third party file sharing sites such as Google Drive/Dropbox (peers noted that many of these sites required them to navigate several layers of files and folders before finding relevant information).

Arts Tasmania carefully manages actual and perceived conflicts of interest for both staff members and peers involved in the assessment process.

For more information on the management of conflicts of interest, please visit how decisions are made.