Placemaking Grant
At the City of PAE we are committed to making our city a place where people love to be, so we offer the Placemaking Grants to help develop public spaces through placemaking initiatives.
Placemaking Grants can be used to improve how we feel and use our public spaces and how we can enhance the way they look and work, and also how we celebrate our heritage.
Guidelines
Please read the Grant Guidelines carefully before applying. Many documents on this site are displayed as PDF files. If you have problems accessing, reading or understanding these documents please contact us on 8405 6600.
Placemaking Grant Guidelines(PDF, 3396.41 KB)
What is Placemaking?
Timeframes
Placemaking Grants are now closed as the 2023-2024 budget allocation for this program is fully exhausted. The program will reopen in July 2024.
In the meanwhile, we strongly encourage you to talk to us about your placemaking idea/project so we can work together and provide support for your future application. Please contact our Funding & Partnerships Officer on 8405 6972 or email grants@cityofpae.sa.gov.au
What Funding options are there?
Grants of up to $7500 will be available for community organisations and businesses with an ABN.
Grants of up to $1000 will be available for individuals or informal groups without an ABN.
Eligibility & Assessment criteria
Anyone who lives, works or plays in the City of PAE and who has a strong Placemaking concept, along with local community support, and the ability to make it happen. Individuals, neighbours, businesses, artists, formal and informal community groups, schools and service organisations are all encouraged to apply.
You might want to set up:
- neighbourhood parties or local markets
- small scale precinct beautification
- murals
- temporary public artworks
- small, place-focussed neighbourhood or local business run activations
- other creative activities
- an activation idea no-one has even thought of yet…
Eligible applications will be assessed against the following criteria:
How to apply
We provide an online application tool to help you prepare and submit your application. It's called SmartyGrants and it's available via the Apply Now button below. If you're a new user, you will need to start by registering a new account. Once registered and logged in you will be redirected to the "Before you Begin" page where you can start your application.
Applicants can only apply online when funding rounds are open. Support or access to computers and the internet can be provided if required.
Success Stories
2021
Mad Monkey Distillery
Bees and yeast project which provides a public learning environment to promote bees and the natural yeast used in fermentation.
Community Yarnbombing Project
Using locally made whimsical yarn art installations sharing a message of inclusion installed in a local street.
Project 18 The Wellbeing Collective
A community lead Arbor Day Project to transform a disused cul-du-sac, previous full of shopping trolleys into a green space full of plants and people.
Neighbourhood Node
Celebrating Winter Solstice with a connection to the local environment and people. Three fires were lit on open ground and senior Kaurna elders invited to tell their stories in a picnic atmosphere.
2019
Neighbourhood Node Pty Ltd t/a “The Pear” were approved $3,000 to host a street party to celebrate The Pear's first birthday with its community in Alberton;
RSL Largs Bay Sub-Branch Inc were approved $7,500 to activate and beautify the laneway running alongside the RSL to the Largs North Railway Station with memorial gardens;
Mixed Creative were approved $2,994 to host the Wonderwalls Block Party to celebrate the completion of street art works by international, national and local artists during the Wonderwalls Festival 2019 in Port Adelaide;
Angela Leaney t/a The Dutch Pantry were approved $3,000 to create a large Dutch-inspired 3D mural with bikes and live garden in Klemzig;
Glanville Golf Course (Belgravia Leisure) were approved $3,000 to activate the Glanville Golf Course by hosting a family-friendly outdoor movie night during the October school holidays;
It’s Port Adelaide (Darryl Poole) were approved $6,000 to showcase and celebrate the connection between people and places across the City of PAE through a storytelling project utilising photography, videography and social media;
Woodville Gardens School B-7 Childrens Centre were approved $3,000 to create an inclusive environment for children and families through an Indigenous inspired mural, a small native garden and seating area in Woodville Gardens;
North West Business Alliance were approved $3,000 to run the Hop On Hop Off Shuttle Bus service taking national and international tourists from the cruise ships at Outer Harbour to the Semaphore Road and Port Adelaide tourist and shopping precinct;
POSH markets were approved $3,000 to host the inaugural POSH Arts and Design Fair at Hart’s Mill;
Reclink Australia were approved $3,000 to deliver Aerosol Art workshops and liaise with community and businesses to identify suitable walls across the City of PAE for artists to showcase their talent legally;
St Brigid's School were approved $5,000 to invigorate an existing outdoor space adjacent to a church, school and community hub in Kilburn by creating a welcoming nature-based play space;
Marine Life Society of South Australia Inc were approved $3,000 to research and map large anchors in public spaces around Port Adelaide to form a Port Adelaide Anchor Trail celebrating the Port’s rich maritime heritage;
GroundSwell Community Group were approved $1,000 to assist residents in the Lefevre Peninsula to construct verge garden beds;
Friends of Taperoo Dunes were approved $950 to develop and install informative signage to form a Dunes Coastal Trail at Taperoo;
MichelleJahn was approved $1,000 to learn about yarn bombing and to produce yarn installations within the outdoor space adjacent to the Hillcrest Community Centre;
Helen Psaila was approved $520 to bring neighbours together to paint stobie poles with nature illustrations at a Croydon Park street.