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Regeneration Fund Outcomes Questionnaire

This webpage helps applicants who submitted an Expression of Interest:

  • understand the Fund outcomes; including the precedents set during the first evaluation round
  • reassess your initiative’s contribution to the Fund outcomes using the Outcomes Questionnaire.

We strongly recommend that you use the Outcomes Questionnaire to reassess your initiative before submitting any updates or additional information for future funding rounds. The contents of this page are also available in interactive PDF and Word versions:

For more details about the fund process read the Information for Applicants Guide

Contents


The Fund has five outcomes

The Cultural Sector Regeneration Fund is designed to support strategic initiatives that contribute to the Fund outcomes and have lasting benefit for arts, culture, and heritage in Aotearoa New Zealand.

The fund outcomes are:

  • Improved sustainability and resilience of the arts, culture and heritage sectors
  • Improved safeguarding of Mātauranga Māori and support of Toi Māori
  • Improved access and participation in arts, culture and heritage sectors
  • Increased use of arts, culture and heritage as a tool to improve wellbeing
  • Increased employment and skill development opportunities

Successful initiatives will:

  • strongly contribute to the Fund outcomes. This means your initiative should have a strong to moderate contribution in two or more of the Fund’s outcome areas
  • the requested level of funding will be in proportion to the contribution your initiative makes to the Fund outcomes
  • have a long-lasting benefit for the arts, culture and heritage sectors beyond the life of the requested funding
    • requests that seek to provide financial relief, support individual pursuits, or deliver one-off events are unlikely to succeed unless they can show how they will directly contribute to a measurable, long-lasting, sector wide impact
    • smaller-scale initiatives will need to show how they will directly contribute to a deep, long-lasting impact
  • not be primarily requesting capital expenditure (for example, to buy new buildings or carry out construction works)
  • not be supporting news content and sports as they are supported by other programmes administered by Manatū Taonga and Sport New Zealand.

Precedents set by the Panel

After Round One, the Panel set the following precedents and created some guidance for applicants about the outcomes of the Fund. These were re-confirmed after Round Two.

  • Commissioning or delivery of specific works/productions: While we recognise the importance of events and the development of specific works, these types of activities will not contribute strongly to the Fund outcomes unless they can evidence the impact this will create in the wider sector, and into the future.
  • Outcomes in the future: Any outcomes that will be achieved beyond the life or scope of the requested funding will only be considered if there is strong evidence that these outcomes will happen. For example, if funding is being sought for the first year of a five-year programme, we will only consider outcomes achieved over those five years if there is strong evidence that the programme will be completed as planned. Evidence might include things such as funding commitments from other funders, other supporting resources (venues, significant partners), and a strong and viable business plan.
  • Capital expenditure (CAPEX): The eligibility criteria for the Fund allows for initiatives to request capital expenditure up to 50% of the initiative cost (for example, to carry out construction works).    
  • Organisational capacity: Initiatives that focus on building the capacity of an organisation will only be considered if there is confidence that those increases in capacity will be sustainable and will result in contributions across the fund outcomes. For example, this may be shown through evidence of future commitments or a solid business plan for generating increased revenue.
  • Ensuring that funding is proportionate to outcomes: The level of requested funding will be compared to the initiative’s contribution to the Fund outcomes. Initiatives requesting significant levels of funding will need to demonstrate, with high confidence, a significant impact on outcomes over time. This approach means that initiatives with commitments from other funders or confirmed in-kind contributions from partners are likely to have a distinct advantage.    

The panel also set some specific precedents for the outcomes. These are shown in the relevant outcome sections later in this document. 


How the Outcomes Questionnaire works

There are 16 questions across five outcome areas. Consider each question and select the answer that best describes how your initiative contributes.

Your initiative doesn’t need to contribute to all five outcomes. However, initiatives that do not demonstrate a strong or moderate contribution to two or more of the outcomes are unlikely to receive funding.

As a general guide:

  • Strong contribution to one of the Fund outcomes: all A or B responses to the questions for that outcome.
  • Moderate contribution to one of the Fund outcomes: mainly B or C responses to the questions for that outcome.
  • Low contribution to one of the Fund outcomes: mainly D, E or N/A responses to the questions for that outcome.

What to do after you’ve completed this questionnaire

If you have reassessed your initiative against the outcomes, and have made changes to your original selections, please save a copy of this reassessment and submit to your relationship manager via the online portal.

You should have a request available on your online portal home page to attach this to. This request should include the due date for submission of this information.

If you don’t have a request available on your online portal home page, please contact your relationship manager. 


The questions to answer

Respond to the questions with the option most relevant to your initiative. You should have a high level of certainty that your initiative will achieve the expected benefits as you may be asked for evidence to support your assessment.

Outcome one: Improved sustainability and resilience of the arts, culture and heritage sectors

We want to support initiatives that:

  • have wide reach within the arts, culture and/or heritage sectors
  • make a real difference to sustainability and capability of the sector
  • have strong support from the sector.

Precedents set by the Panel – Round One Evaluation

Please be clear on whose ‘sustainability and resilience’ the initiative will directly impact and answer all three questions with a focus on the same group of people or organisations.     

For example, if the reach of the initiative (question one) is rated as ‘District’, then the depth of the impact on sustainability and resilience (question two) must relate to the ‘District’ too. A lot of initiatives have answered ‘District’ or ‘Nationwide’ to question one because their organisation serves a regional audience or supports people across the country and have then answered question two in terms of the impact on their own organisation (rather than the whole District).  

The reach claimed in question one will be used to test the impact claimed in question two, and the level of support claimed in question three. It will often be better for initiatives to be modest in their answer to question one so that they can claim higher impact and support in questions two and three.

1. What reach does your initiative have?

This question explores how widely the initiative’s benefits will be felt by people and organisations in the arts, culture and heritage sectors. For example, will your initiative benefit the arts sector across Aotearoa New Zealand, people and organisations within a specific sector (for example performing arts or toi whakairo), or will it mainly benefit your organisation or a small community group.

  1. Nationwide / cross sector
  2. District / regional system or sector
  3. Large collective / community / sub-sector
  4. Small collective / town
  5. Organisation / Community group

2. To what extent will your initiative increase sustainability and capability?

This question explores how much of a difference your initiative will make to the sustainability and capability of those it will reach. For example, your initiative might provide new tools that enable a large collective of arts organisations to generate the revenue they need to be sustainable long-term. 

  1. Significant shift over the long-term
  2. Moderate shift over the long-term
  3. Significant shift over short to medium term
  4. Moderate shift over short to medium term
  5. Minor shift

3. What level of support does your initiative have?

This question explores the level of support your initiative has from the people and organisations that are expected to benefit. This could include recognised representatives of this group. For example, an initiative might be strongly supported by a small collective of arts organisations who have been fully involved in the design and development.

  1. Strong support – including full involvement of people who will benefit
  2. Well supported – including strong involvement of people who will benefit
  3. Supported – including representation of people who will benefit
  4. Some support – including engagement of people who will benefit
  5. Limited support outside of organisation

Outcome two: Improved safeguarding of Mātauranga Māori and/or support of Toi Māori

We want to support kaupapa led by Kaitiaki (custodians) and Ringatoi Māori (practitioners), for and on behalf of iwi, hapū, hapori Māori, to safeguard their vulnerable Mātauranga through initiatives that strengthen Taonga Tuku Iho and Toi Māori infrastructure – including people, places, systems and tools.

Precedents set by the Panel – Round One Evaluation

Proposals that showed a strong contribution to this outcome were able to clearly show the relationship between vulnerability (question five) and governance (question four). For example, if the mātauranga is highly vulnerable (e.g. to a particular hapū or marae), the governance arrangement should reflect this and involve the people who have kaitiakitanga over that specific, highly vulnerable mātauranga.   

Initiatives relating to vulnerable mātauranga will almost certainly need to answer A or B for question four (who is leading the initiative). We have no appetite for risk in this area – and will rigorously test whether initiatives relating to protecting vulnerable mātauranga have people involved that will be trusted and supported by Māori. Tangible evidence on clarity of roles and how they relate to the governance, delivery, and leadership of the kaupapa will often be sought.

4. Ko Wai? Who is leading the initiative?

This question explores the degree to which the appropriate Kaitiaki or Ringatoi Māori are involved in the initiative.

  1. Led by Kaitiaki, Ringatoi Māori who have tino rangatiratanga over Taonga
  2. Kaitiaki, Ringatoi Māori are in governance roles, significant involvement and support
  3. Kaitiaki, Ringatoi Māori are actively involved in the delivery of the initiative
  4. Māori-advised
  5. Delivered on behalf of Māori

5. Te Puna Mātauranga? How vulnerable is the Mātauranga Māori involved in your initiative?

This question explores the vulnerability of the Mātauranga Māori that is involved in your Taonga Tuku Iho or Toi Māori initiative. For the purposes of this fund, ‘Extremely vulnerable’ is where there are very few Kaitiaki, Pūkenga, Kaumātua, Tohunga who hold the Mātauranga. ‘Low vulnerability’ is where the Mātauranga is held by many and widely available and is therefore considered secure.

  1. Extremely vulnerable
  2. Highly vulnerable
  3. Vulnerable
  4. Some vulnerability
  5. Low vulnerability

6. Ki hea? To what degree does your initiative strengthen and sustain Taonga Tuku Iho and Toi Māori Infrastructure?

This question explores the level of sustainability and impact of your initiative on the strengthening of Taonga Tuku Iho and Toi Māori Infrastructure (people, places, systems and tools). For example, recognised Pūkenga supported to train the next generation of practitioners in an endangered artform or a cultural mapping project to record the kōrero associated with wāhi tūpuna may result in a significant long-term impact. Ringatoi upskilled in e-commerce may have a medium-term impact.

  1. Significant long-term impact.
  2. Significant medium-term impact.
  3. Some medium-term impact.
  4. Short-term impact.
  5. Limited impact.

Outcome three: Improved access and participation in the arts, culture and heritage sectors

We want to support initiatives that:

  • grow audiences
  • address barriers to access and participation
  • represent and engage more New Zealanders in arts, culture and heritage.

Participation is about enabling people to engage in the creation, development and/or delivery of arts, culture and heritage. Access is about enabling people to attend, experience or view arts, culture and heritage.

Precedents set by the Panel – Round One Evaluation

Proposals that showed a strong contribution to this outcome were able to clearly and explicitly evidence the barriers that were being removed or lowered by their initiative.    

These barriers were related to both:  

  • Participation - how they would enable people to overcome barriers to their engagement in the creation, development or delivery of arts, culture and heritage; and  
  • Access - how they would enable people to overcome barriers to attend, experience or view arts, culture and heritage.  

The groups of people selected as being able to participate (question seven) or access (question nine) an initiative needs to be the same group that will see the impact of this participation (question eight) or access (question ten).   

For example, if you indicate that 500 people will have barriers to access removed, your selected impact (i.e., significant and sustainable) would need to happen for ALL of those 500 people.

7. How many people will be supported to participate in arts, culture and heritage?

This question explores how many people, who currently experience barriers to participating in the arts, culture and heritage, will be able to actively and meaningfully participate because of your initiative.

  1. More than 100
  2. 50 – 99
  3. 25 – 49
  4. 10 – 24
  5. Less than 10

8. How significant will the impact be on participation?

This question explores how significant your initiative will be in benefitting those who will be supported to participate. It considers how significant the barrier is, how much the initiative can reduce or remove the barriers, and how long the change will be maintained.

  1. Significant, sustained change
  2. Significant change lasting the life of initiative
  3. Moderate, sustained change
  4. Moderate change lasting the life of initiative
  5. One off / short term change

9. How many people will be able to access arts, culture and heritage?

This question explores how many people, who currently experience barriers to accessing arts, culture and heritage, will be able to have meaningful access because of the initiative.

Examples of things to help people overcome barriers might be including sign language interpretation in digital media; or providing free transport to help children in rural areas to visit heritage sites.

  1. More than 1000
  2. 500 – 999
  3. 100 – 499
  4. 10 – 99
  5. Fewer than 10

10. How significant will the impact be on access?

This question explores how significant your initiative will be for access. It considers how significant the barrier being addressed is, how much your initiative will be able to reduce or remove the barriers, and how long the change will be maintained.

  1. Significant, sustained change
  2. Significant change lasting the life of initiative
  3. Moderate, sustained change
  4. Moderate change lasting the life of initiative
  5. One off / short term change

Outcome four: Increased use of arts, culture and heritage as a tool to improve wellbeing

We want to support initiatives that use arts, culture, and heritage to provide wellbeing outcomes for New Zealanders, and strengthen the arts culture and heritage sector’s ability to deliver wellbeing initiatives in the future.

We are using the broad wellbeing domains in the Treasury Living Standards Framework.  

Precedents set by the Panel – Round One Evaluation

Proposals that showed a strong contribution to this outcome were able to clearly evidence the depth of experience in the wellbeing space and how this would be significant. The Panel were looking for initiatives scoring highly in this outcome to be transformational experiences for those involved.    

The Panel recognised the short-term positive wellbeing impacts that people get from attending an event, experiencing an artwork, or attending a wananga. However, the Panel only considered initiatives as having long-term, significant positive wellbeing impacts if the people involved were engaged over a considerable amount of time – e.g. many, many hours of support or positive experiences.    

As with the other outcomes, it is important to remember that the group of people you select in question eleven (how many people benefit) should be the same group experiencing the impact, described in question twelve– noting that different people experience wellbeing benefits differently. For example, if you select 500 people as having wellbeing impact from your initiative over weeks or months, your selected impact (i.e. significant and sustained) would need to happen for ALL those 500 people.

11. How many people will have improved wellbeing because of your initiative?

This question explores the scale and impact of your initiative by understanding the number of people who are expected to benefit from your initiative. For example, your initiative might support 20 people to spend more time doing activities that strengthen cultural identity over the coming years. 

  1. More than 1000
  2. 500 – 999
  3. 100 – 499
  4. 10 – 99
  5. Fewer than 10

12. What is the depth of wellbeing benefits resulting from your initiative?

This question explores the improvement in wellbeing that will be achieved for those who are expected to benefit, and how long the improvement will be sustained. For example, activities that strengthen cultural identity over years are likely to support experiences of a significant and sustained improvement in wellbeing, whereas people enjoying a show will experience a short-term wellbeing benefit.

  1. Significant and sustained improvement in wellbeing
  2. Significant increases in wellbeing - with medium-term benefits
  3. Moderate increases in wellbeing - with medium-term benefits
  4. Minor increases in wellbeing - with short to medium-term benefits
  5. Short-term wellbeing benefits

Outcome five: Increased employment and skill development opportunities

We want to support initiatives that will create new and sustainable jobs. We also want to support initiatives that help people in the sector to develop the skills they need to be successful and achieve their goals.

Precedents set by the Panel – Round One Evaluation

Proposals that showed a strong contribution to this outcome were able to clearly evidence the employment opportunities that were being created and the skill development opportunities that were being delivered, for those who work or practice in the arts, culture and heritage sectors.

As with other outcomes, it is important to remember that the group of people you select in question thirteen and fifteen should be the same group of people experiencing the impact described in questions fourteen and sixteen. For example, if you select 100 people as building skills because of your initiative, your selected impact (i.e. broad, in-depth learning – sustained change) would need to happen for ALL of those 100 people.

When considering the level of impact your initiative will have on skill development, the panel were clear that for an initiative to have a ‘Broad’ impact would require education on a wide range of subjects across multiple disciplines or topics, and ‘In-depth’ would require long-term engagement and learning by the attendees (months and years).

13. How many jobs will be created?

This question explores the number of jobs in the arts, culture and heritage sectors that will be involved in the delivery of your initiative, as well as jobs that will potentially be created because of the initiative.

Please include all jobs – even if they are short-term or part-time.

  1. More than 100
  2. Up to 100
  3. Up to 50
  4. Up to 25
  5. Up to 10

14. What kind of jobs will be created?

This question explores the sorts of jobs that will be created by the initiative – whether they are new or existing, or short and long-term.

  1. Mostly new sustainable jobs (years)
  2. Mostly new medium-term jobs (months)
  3. Extends existing jobs, medium term / sustainably (months / years)
  4. Mostly new short term (days/weeks)
  5. Extends existing jobs short-term (days/weeks)

15. How many people will develop their skills?

This question explores the number of people who will develop skills because of your initiative. This might include on the job learning, targeted training opportunities, or other capability building opportunities.

  1. More than 1000
  2. 500 – 999
  3. 100 – 499
  4. 10 – 99
  5. Fewer than 10

16. What impact will your initiative have on skills?

This question explores the breadth and depth of the training your initiative will deliver, and how sustainable the change is that should result from the training. 

For example, will your initiative deliver in-depth skills development across a broad range of topics – will it lead to a significant and sustained increase in attendee’s skills? Or will it provide high-level learning that will enhance an attendee’s understanding of the relevant topic?

  1. Broad, in-depth learning - sustained change.
  2. Focussed, in depth learning - sustained change
  3. Learning which builds moderate skills and understanding of a topic
  4. Broad high-level learning - enhanced understanding of a range of topics
  5. Focussed high level learning -enhanced understanding of topic

 


Self-assessment

Assess yourself by recording your answers to the 16 questions above. For each outcome note how you answered the related questions.

Outcome 1: Improved sustainability and resilience of the arts, culture and heritage sectors (questions 1–3)

Outcome 2: Improved safeguarding of Mātauranga Māori and/or support of Toi Māori (questions 4–6)

Outcome 3: Improved access and participation in arts, culture and heritage (questions 7–10)

Outcome 4: Increased use of arts, culture and heritage as a tool to improve wellbeing (questions 11–12)

Outcome 5: Increased employment and skill development opportunities (questions 13–16).

Once you have answered all of the questions, you will be able to identify the strength of your initiative’s contribution to each outcome by considering:

  • Strong contribution to fund outcome: all A or B responses to the questions against an outcome
  • Moderate contribution to fund outcome: mainly B or C responses to the questions against an outcome
  • Low contribution to fund outcome: mainly D or E or N/A responses to the questions against an outcome

Your initiative doesn’t need to contribute to all five outcomes; however, initiatives that do not demonstrate a strong or moderate contribution in two or more of the outcome areas are unlikely to receive funding.


Key terms and definitions

Access

Access is about enabling people to attend, experience or view arts, culture and heritage.

Capability

Capability is about the systems, support, or other activities that improve practitioner and/or organisational opportunities and administrative performance (not arts practice). 

Cross-sector

Cross-sector means there are cross over benefits for different sectors in the industry. For example there are benefits for music, film and dance.

Cultural sector

The cultural sector includes arts, culture and heritage practitioners and organisations who contribute to creating, presenting, protecting, and distributing arts, culture, and heritage.

News content and sports are not included in the cultural sector for this funding as they are supported by other programmes administered by Manatū Taonga and Sport NZ. 

Hapori Māori

A Māori community, organisation, network or group.

Kaitiaki

Custodians of knowledge, taonga and places. A person or group that has authority over Mātauranga, taonga and wāhi.

Mātauranga

A modern term that encapsulates all forms of Māori knowledge.

Participation

Participation is about enabling people to engage in creating, developing or delivering arts, culture and heritage.

Resilient or resilience

The ability to respond to changing circumstances, harmful shocks and taking advantage of opportunities across the sector.

Significant

The result of doing something that has or is likely to have important influence or effect. The change is noticeably very large and important, and evidence illustrates the significance.

Skills

The knowledge acquired to understand and use systems.

Strategic initiative

A strategic initiative is a comprehensive plan that an organization sets out to achieve its strategic goals or long-term visions to improve.

Sub-sector

A sub-sector is a specific discipline within a wider sector such as rock music, theatre venues, children's authors.

Sustained or sustainable

Something is sustained or sustainable if it will continue for an extended period (several years or into the foreseeable future) or without interruption.

Cultural sector practitioners and organisations can sustain their practice financially and resourcefully. For example, maintaining a career as a practitioner.

Taonga Tuku Iho

Māori Cultural Transmission System. The passing down of heritage, culture, traditions and taonga by our ancestors through generations  

Te Puna Mātauranga

The source from which knowledge flows.

Tino Rangatiratanga over taonga

The absolute authority over artforms, arts practices and taonga.

Toi Māori

Māori art. This term refers to traditional and contemporary Māori art forms including but not limited to whakairo, raranga, and kapa haka. 

Wellbeing

How wellbeing is defined and understood is different between people and cultures. A western view of wellbeing might focus on different ‘wellbeing domains’ such as:

  • income and what we consume
  • health
  • knowledge and skills
  • cultural identity
  • safety and security
  • social connections
  • jobs
  • housing
  • environment
  • leisure
  • civic engagement and governance.

One Te Ao Māori perspective on wellbeing is put forward bv Te Whare Tapa Whā (Mason Durie 1984) who describes four dimensions of wellbeing:

  • taha tinana – physical wellbeing
  • taha hinengaro – mental wellbeing
  • taha wairua – spiritual wellbeing
  • taha whānau – family wellbeing.

Updated on 1st February 2023