Funding for event organisers in NSW
The Regional Event Fund – Flagship Event stream provides grants to event organisers in regional NSW to support marketing and promotional costs that increase visibility and attract overnight visitation to established events.
Grants are available as $20,000 annual payments or $30,000 per annum paid over three years (triennial).
To be eligible to apply for the Regional Event Fund Flagship Event stream, applicants must:
- be the event owner (i.e. own the rights to the event and hold the relevant approvals for the event) at the time of application and contract
- be financially solvent or be financially viable and able to demonstrate that they are likely to remain so over the duration of the funding period
- have an Australian Business Number (ABN)
- be a sole trader, company, partnership, unincorporated and incorporated associations, or company trust entity
- have at least $20 million public liability insurance, or be able to secure before entering into a Funding Agreement
- be a legal entity and not a business name
Grants through the Flagship Event stream are only available to events that have been running for more than 2 years.
To be eligible for the $20,000 annual grant your event must:
- take place between 1 July 2026 and 30 June 2027
- have been held for a minimum of 2 years prior to applying for funding
- be held in one of the following 7 Destination Network regions: Destination Central West
- Destination Country & Outback NSW
- Destination North Coast including Lord Howe Island
- Destination Riverina Murray
- Destination Southern NSW
- Destination Sydney Surrounds North
- Destination Sydney Surrounds South. (Note: the Local Government Areas of Penrith, Hawkesbury, Blue Mountains and Wollondilly are excluded from the above Destination Networks.) To be eligible for the $30,000 triennial grant, your event must meet the eligible events criteria above for the $20,000 annual grant and have received three Flagship Event Annual event grants
Additional eligibility: an event awarded a grant through previous Regional Event Fund rounds that has been deferred to FY2026/27 as a result of exceptional circumstances is not eligible to apply for additional funding for the same event from the Regional Event Fund in 2026/27.
A single event may not receive grant funding from more than one stream of the Regional Event Fund program (Incubator, Flagship or Event Development) in the same year.
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Last updated: 2 April 2026