Common challenges pose a serious threat to the future of many events in regional Australia.

What are the solutions?

No more gold, silver and bronze sponsorship tiers, please!

It’s strategic and well thought out partnership models that will garner support for events.

Is your regional event sustainable?

Has it outgrown the capability of its volunteer workforce?

Does it struggle to break even financially?

Here are 7 ways to ensure your event’s viability

Create NSW's Creating New Income Toolkit is a practical guide on how to generate revenue, equally useful for events as for the artists it was written for.

The guide covers philanthropy, sponsorship, crowdfunding and new product development, itemising the steps needed to develop and grow these income streams.

A survey of regional and rural events throughout Australia was conducted in September 2018 to provide us with a better understanding of what their main challenges and opportunities are.

With close to 40 responses, the sample size provides some interesting insights and trends.

Grant funding offers incredible support to events and festivals.

Events cost a lot of money, and grants are important sources of funds to pay for marketing, entertainment, and even infrastructure.