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The NAC grants department administers more than 20 financial assistance schemes and scholarships to support different areas pertaining to the arts. General overviews of grant schemes and scholarships are available on the web site. The objective of each scheme is clearly stated. Please select the scheme that is most relevant to the nature of your project and objective. |
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The Council provides grants for projects in the following areas:
Visual Arts, Photo Arts, Music, Dance, Theatre & Drama, Literary Arts
NAC has started the New Media Arts Fund, which supports the development and creation of artistic work that explores or experiments with new forms of expressions, including the cross-fertilisation of new technologies and other disciplines with conventional art forms.
Financial support for film projects and film studies is looked after by the Singapore Film Commission. For more information, please contact the Singapore Film Commission Secretariat, 140 Hill Street #05-01, MITA Building, Singapore 179369. Tel: (65) 6837 9891 Fax: (65) 6837 9890 or visit their web site at www.sfc.org.sg. |
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For arts groups:
Applicants must be local registered, non-profit distributing organisations engaged in arts practice either in visual arts, photography, dance, theatre, music or literature.
For informal groups:
Informal groups of individual artists may apply for funding, but must nominate either an individual or a legally constituted organisation to take legal and financial responsibility for administering the grant.
For individuals:
Applicants should be recognised by their peers as practicing artists and must be Singaporeans or Permanent Residents. Priority may be given to full-time practitioners Scholarships have different criteria for eligibility. Detailed information is available from the NAC Scholarships page. |
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The Council has an Emerging Artists Fund that is specifically set up to assist new and promising but unproven artist(s), especially fresh arts graduates who would like to present their first major group or solo project.
Among other factors, applications are primarily assessed based on the creative potential of the artist(s), the relevant arts training or background (if any), artistic merit of the proposal, and the artist(s)' commitment towards contributing to the Singapore arts scene.
This grant is only awarded once to successful applicants, thereafter they can apply for Project Grant upon the Council's evaluation on the outcome of their first project. |
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Yes. Given the Council's limited budget, there are many activities that are beyond the scope of the Council's funding, regardless of their merit:
- Student groups formed under the auspices of schools and tertiary institutions.
- Projects or activities that do not have a clearly defined arts component.
- Projects or activities which have commenced prior to the application.
- Projects or activities that do not involve practising Singaporean artists.
- Major capital expenditure including the refurbishment of buildings, the purchase of office equipment & musical instruments (except for projects under the NAC Arts Housing Scheme).
- Academic activity including administration costs for academic conferences and the development of teaching and resources specifically for academic courses.
- Projects which have already received funding from other NAC departments (Please check with officers for more details).
- Costs of organising fundraising events for other charitable organisations.
- Costs of organising small scale competitions with limited outreach.
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Different schemes require different sets of supporting materials. For details on the supporting materials needed, please refer to the first page of the application forms for each scheme, where the information is published under "Application Procedures". For NAC Scholarships, please refer to the application form for details. |
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There are no restrictions on the number of times you can apply for a grant, but each scheme has specific maximum quantum capped at a certain grant amount:
- For ad-hoc Project Grants, the sum total to any one particular organisation or individual will not exceed $50,000 per year. All other schemes have different capped quantum per year.
- Exceptions to this maximum quantum practice are the SIA-NAC Travel Grant (limited to only 2 grant awards per year for each organisation or individual) & Emerging Artists Fund (only awarded once to each individual or group; successful applicants may apply for Project Grant for future projects).
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For most schemes, there are fixed closing dates for applications. However, for grant schemes with no fixed closing dates, applicants are required to submit their applications 2 months before the proposed activity or event; for SIA-NAC Travel Grant, applicants are required to submit their applications 3 months before their dates of departure. |
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All applications are assessed according to the published criteria for each scheme.
For ad-hoc schemes, which are generally open all year round, applications are assessed by the NAC Grants department in consultation with peer assessors from the NAC arts resource panel. Ad-hoc grants assessment meetings are held once a month.
For grant schemes with fixed closing dates, applications will be assessed by specialist panels drawn from NAC's arts resource panel. This panel is made up of a range of experts and arts practitioners from across the art forms. |
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Applicants will generally be notified of the outcome of their applications within 2 months from the postmarked dates of the application. Scholarship & bursary applicants will only be notified in August. |
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Successful applicants must fulfill the following general conditions:
- The Council's support should be acknowledged on all publicity materials.
- NAC should be informed of any changes to the proposed activity or programme.
- Submit the Feedback Form or evaluation report together with a certified statement of accounts within 2 months from the end of the event. (Applicants will NOT be considered for future grant applications if these documents are not received).
Please note that specific conditions do apply to some schemes. Please see Application Procedures for Grants and Scholarships, and Important Information for details. |
