The Australia Council for the Arts, soon to be Creative Australia, recently advised organisations that had expressed interest in the next four-year funding round if they were eligible to go forward with an application. The Stage 2 applications were offered to a small proportion of the original cohort – just the 28% or so that met the criteria – and are due on 2 August.
Miles speaks of the content of any plan being based on the values of the organisation. ‘You need to be unique and authentic,’ she says, mentioning a general arts response to COVID: ‘I saw some companies respond very quickly to the pandemic because they went back to who they were and their core values, which guided them to make the right decisions. Those whose values were not so clear floundered – and the same is true of a strategic plan,’ she explains.
