2005 Budget Summary for Vote Arts, Culture and Heritage
This year's Budget was a positive one for the arts, culture and heritage sector with funding mostly directed at maintaining the capacity and capability of agencies, and some additional money going to specific projects.
Antarctic Heritage Trust
- $300,000 p.a. for operating expenses.
Auckland War Memorial Museum
- $4 million over 2006 - 08 to meet redevelopment project construction cost escalations
Creative New Zealand
- $2.90 million for arts sector funding
- $1.069 million p.a. for organisational capacity
- $788,000 capital funding to develop online services and upgrade its historic building premises.
New Zealand Film Archive
- $113,000 p.a. for preservation of Chapman collection of television news and current affairs programmes.
- $180,000 for a one year pilot project to restore and market on DVD classic New Zealand films.
New Zealand On Air
- $5 million p.a. for archiving and television programming
- $1.250 million p.a. for non-commercial broadcasting
- $956,000 p.a. for implementation of an international music airplay strategy.
New Zealand Symphony Orchestra
- $1.803 million to maintain organisational capacity increasing to $2.5 million p.a. from 2006-08.
Radio New Zealand
- $3.849 million in 2004-05 towards purchase of Auckland accommodation.
- $800,000 p.a. to complete initiatives including improved services to the Pacific, extension of transmission coverage in remote locations and FM promotion.
Te Papa
- $12 million capital funding to deliver its projected capital plan over the next six years.
Te Matatini
- $300,000 p.a. for organisational capacity
Ministry for Culture and Heritage
- $632,000 in 2005-06 increasing to $855,000 in 2006-07 to develop a cultural portal on the internet
- $711,000 capital funding for the cultural portal
- $478,000 p.a. to expand the Ministry's capacity for policy advice relating to the Broadcasting Programme of Action
- $234,000 in 2005-06 reducing to $117,000 in 2006-07 for the implementation of the Protected Objects Amendment Bill
- $184,000 in 2005-06 reducing ton $117,000 in 2006-07 and $90,000 in 2007-08 for work on agency performance
- $171,000 in 2005-06 extension of the cultural well-being pilot
- $90,000 in 2005-06 to upgrade corporate and NZHistory.net websites
- $2.896 million in 2005-06 to maintain funding levels for agencies funded by the New Zealand Lottery Grants Board.