ABN: The Australian Business Number (ABN) is a single identifier for all business dealings with the tax office.

Acquittal: The final stage of the grant process. In order to acquit your grant, you must submit an Outcome Report to the funding body. The acquittal will have a deadline, e.g. within 8 weeks of completion of your funded activity.

Arts: The Australian Culture and Leisure Classifications (ACLC) defines arts activities as “the creation, manufacturing and sale of goods and services relating to literature, radio, television, film, digital content, visual arts and crafts, design, music and performing arts”. These also include "writing, drama, playing and recording music, music composition, dance, theatre, film, visual arts and crafts, design (including graphic and architectural design) and radio and television broadcasting”.

Arts and Cultural Policy: A document that sets directions for the future investment in arts and cultural development.

Artsworker: A person who may produce arts and cultural product directly or who may manage or facilitate the development of arts and cultural activity in their community.

Auspicing body: An incorporated organisation which manages a grant on behalf of an individual (often needed if they do not have an ABN), or collective; responsible for providing a financial report on the completion of a project, but not responsible for the artistic direction or quality of the project.

Collective/Cooperative: Community groups or groups of artists that are not incorporated but may be auspiced by an incorporated association or company or local government. One person may need to be nominated as the accountable representative of the group for management, reporting and financial matters, the group members may need to supply confirming their involvement and support for the nominated representative. Include this letter as support material.

Community arts: Uses all art forms to explore and express issues of community identity, place, a sense of belonging as well as asserting community needs and differences.

Community Cultural Development (CCD): Activity that affirms the community and its members as the creators and owners of their cultural practices. In collaboration with professional artists and cultural workers, communities can express their inherent creativity, celebrate their unique culture and generate activities with social and economic benefits.

Concept development: The process of shaping and refining an idea for a new product into a complete description. No specific art form product is required.

Corporate plan: A document detailing the steps to achieve an organisation’s mission; a major strategic planning instrument. The plan sets out the strategies which the organisation intends to follow in the medium term in order to achieve the policy objectives.

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Craft: An activity (e.g. weaving, carving, pottery) that involves making things skilfully by hand, often using traditional techniques and usually for functional purposes.

Cultural heritage: Activities that comprise the management of sites and collections which represent the cultural environment. This means the preservation of the objects, writings and
other records that reflect ways of life of various cultural groups, including items of aesthetic,
scientific or social significance. These activities are most closely aligned with museums, art
museums, libraries and archives.

Cultural mapping: A tool that can form the basis of a cultural planning process. The mapping process provides an understanding of the diverse and sometimes invisible resources and values of the community. It explores and names different cultural influences, understandings of history and place, and the roles and relationships of people in the community. Combined with an audit of the buildings, organisations and cultural practices of the community, the cultural map can provide new understandings of the issues, needs and aspirations of the community.

Cultural planning: Cultural planning is a process of deciding how best to use a community’s cultural resources for economic and social development. Cultural planning provides a way for communities and government bodies to develop a shared vision and the means for effectively coordinating community resources to build a strong and sustainable cultural industry. It identifies what needs to be done, by whom, in what time frame and how much it will cost, in hours and dollars. The cultural plan is the community’s promise to itself, in which it determines what it needs to do in order to provide its own cultural future.

Demonstration: A non participatory activity where an artsworker demonstrates a particular art/craft technique to a passive audience.

Emerging professional artist: Has had no more than five years experience as a professional
artist.

Extracurricular: Activity that is held outside the standard educational curriculum taught during the school day and not expected to be delivered by educational institutions.

Feasibility study: A detailed investigation and analysis of a proposed development project to determine whether it is viable technically and economically.

GST: Goods and Services Tax: a broad-based tax of 10 per cent on most supplies of goods and
services consumed in Australia.

Heritage: Those things or places which come or belong to a person or people by reason of
birth including the culture, traditions and assets preserved from one generation to another.
Infrastructure: The framework needed to support arts and cultural organisations. It may be
‘hard’ infrastructure such as buildings and computers, or ‘soft’ infrastructure such as
organisations and the people who manage them.

In-kind support: Includes volunteer labour, administrative support, rent-free accommodation
or donations of materials or equipment. These contributions should be given a dollar value and
must be included in your proposed budget.

Not-for-profit: Means that the articles of a legally constituted not-for-profit arts organisation state that profits or surpluses must be used to further the organisation’s artistic objectives. Any profits or surpluses must not be distributed to owners, members or any other individual or group of individuals. The articles should also make provision for the transfer of assets to a similar organisation should they cease operations.

Older person: A person who is over 55 years of age.

Outcome Report: This report describes your achievements and acquits the use of public money by explaining how the grant money was spent, what has been paid for and whether any money was left at the end of the project. It also includes visual documentation of the activity.

PAYG: Pay As You Go (income tax) – the money you pay directly to the Commissioner of Taxation to meet your income tax and other liabilities; sometimes paid each quarter.

Peer assessment: A process of experienced arts and cultural workers meeting to assess grant applications based on published funding criteria.

Professional development: An activity can be considered as professional development if it increases an applicant’s skills, provides networking opportunities, introduces the applicant’s work into new markets and/or enhances the applicant’s ability to earn a living through their arts or cultural work.

Professional artist or arts and cultural worker: Has specialist training in his/her field (not necessarily in academic institutions); is recognised by his/her peers (professional practitioners working in the artform area); is committed to devoting significant time to the artistic activity; and has a history of public presentation.

Quorum: The number of members at a meeting needed to vote on applications. It is usually half the committee plus one.

Sponsor: To support an event, activity, person, or organisation financially or through the provision of products or services.

Stakeholder: A person, group, or business unit that has a share or an interest in a particular activity or set of activities.

Target group: The group of people for whom the work or project is specifically created.

Tiers of government: Three levels of Australian government: Commonwealth, State and Local.

Workshop: A structured activity at which attendees gain practical experience in an artform and

learn new arts skills.

Young person: A person who is 30 years of age or under.