Wyndham Make Music Day: Saturday 21 June 2025

For the first time, Wyndham City Arts & Culture is offering Make Music Day Grants.

Make Music Day (21 June each year) is an internationally celebrated day of music making, featuring music in all its forms, encouraging people to band together and play in free public performances, jams or workshops, in many different locations.

Wyndham City’s Make Music Day grants encourage and support accessible, participatory music-making activities, with a focus on developing the creative community within Wyndham. The funding supports individuals or groups to host free, accessible, open music-making activities in Wyndham on Make Music Day, Saturday 21 June 2025.

For this year, there are six successful recipients of the Make Music Day grants who will host a broad range of participatory music activities. The recipients are:

• beyondvertex offering a Morning Walk & Sound Listening Experience at Moondara Street Playground in Tarneit. 
• Melody With Vivaan offering Little Beats, a community drum circle for kids and families.
• Brad Ashlock of Williams Landing Art Studios offering 4 recording and music production sessions for emerging musicians.
• Ayanthi Anandagoda Piano School offering public piano workshops and performances at Hoppers Crossing Library. 
• Dynamic Performers Australia offering Dynamic Voices, a massed choir workshop and performance event at the Dynamic Performers Studio in Werribee.
• Senthuran Jogaratnam presenting a concert at Wyndham Park Community Centre featuring Indian classical music students and professional musicians performing Tabla (North Indian drum), Mridangam (South Indian drum), Veena (South Indian string instrument), Harmonium (a reed organ) and Kanjira (a South Indian frame drum).

All Make Music Day activities are free for participants and attendees. Detailed information about how to participate will become available via our What’s On listings.

Image: singers from Dynamic Performers Australia, one of the successful recipients of Wyndham City’s 2025 Make Music Day grants.

Responsibilities of successful applicants:

• Sign an agreement
• Develop, deliver and acquit their proposed music activity
• Promotion as per requirements below
• Ensure the activity is free for participants or audiences
• Submit acquittal items as per requirements below

Successful applicants will be required to promote their activity as follows:

• Register your activity as a Wyndham City What’s On listing by Monday 26 May https://www.wyndham.vic.gov.au/events-experiences/submit-your-event
• Register your activity on Make Music Day Australia website by Monday 26 May https://makemusicaustralia.org.au/
• Promote your activity through your own channels and media partnerships. The Make Music Day logos will be available for free download via the website https://makemusicaustralia.org.au/
• Signage acknowledging Wyndham City Council support

Successful applicants will be required to submit the following acquittal items by Monday 30 June 2025:

• 5-10 still images and video footage of approx. 1-minute duration of your activity taking place, submitted to Wyndham City Arts & Culture. Applicant will ensure appropriate photography permissions have been received. 
• A written summary report of 250-500 words describing the activity, planning and promotion, who was involved, who participated or observed, benefits and challenges of running the activity, and what the funds were spent on, submitted to Wyndham Arts & Culture.
• Completion of a post event survey issued by Wyndham City Council
• A selection of photos and/or video uploaded to Make Music Day website https://makemusicaustralia.org.au/

By applying for a Make Music Day Grant (‘grant’), you agree to be bound by these terms and conditions. If your application does not comply with these terms and conditions, it will not be valid and will not be considered. 

These terms and conditions should be read in conjunction with any relevant grant information, such as your application form and the information published on Council’s website.

1. ELIGIBILITY
   1.1To be eligible for a grant, applicants must:
   (b) Be a resident of the City of Wyndham and
   (c) be compliant with all relevant local, state and federal legislation

   1.2 Applications will not be accepted from:
   (a) Council staff, Councillors and their family members.
   (b) applicants that have failed to provide satisfactory acquittal reporting for any previous Council funding; or
   (c) applicants that are currently declared bankrupt or who are undergoing any form of insolvency event.

2. APPLICATIONS

   2.1 To apply for a grant, you must submit a properly completed application form at [insert URL] between 2 and21 April 2025. Applications received outside of this period will not be accepted.
   2.2 Council will not seek to correct errors in applications.  Applications will be assessed as they have been submitted.
   2.3 Council reserves the right to request further information when considering applications, and the right to reject any application that is ineligible or does not meet the assessment criteria.

3. ASSESSMENT OF APPLICATIONS
   
   3.1 Applications will be assessed by a panel of Council staff who will make recommendations to the relevant Manager.
   3.2 The Manager will determine the outcome of all applications that have been recommended by the assessment panel.
   3.3 Council reserves the right to approve a lesser or greater amount of funds applied for. All applicants will be notified in writing of the outcome of their application.

4. NO LOBBYING

   No consideration will be given to applications submitted by applicants who have canvassed or lobbied Councillors or Council staff in relation to their application. 

5. SUCCESSFUL APPLICANTS

   Successful applicants:
   
   5.1 must enter into a funding agreement with Council and comply with the terms and conditions of the funding agreement. 
   5.2 may be required to submit a report that sets out how the funds were utilised and short-term funding outcomes. This report may be requested at any time within 12 months of the funds being provided. The particulars of the evaluation process will be outlined in the funding agreement.

6. CONFIDENTIALITY
   
   6.1 Applications are confidential and will only be disclosed in accordance with these terms and conditions, or as required by law.
   6.2 Applicants acknowledge and agree that their names, their grant details and the amount of funding requested and/or awarded may be made publicly available by Council and may be utilised in reports to Council and for use in grant-related marketing material.

7. GENERAL

   7.1 Council accepts no responsibility for late, lost, incomplete, invalid or corrupt applications.
   7.2 Council reserves the right to modify these terms and conditions at any time, without prior notice.
   7.3 Council’s decisions are final, and no correspondence will be entered into.