Invercargill City Council administers funds for community and arts projects. Learn more about the Community Wellbeing Fund and the Creative Communities Fund, including information on applying.

In June 2019, the Council committed to developing an Arts, Culture and Heritage Strategy, which would offer a vision, purpose and key outcomes for Invercargill City Council and serve to guide future plans for the region’s Arts, Culture and Heritage. Download the Invercargill Arts Culture and Heritage Strategy [PDF]

Love Waihōpai is Invercargill City Council’s email newsletter, delivered monthly directly to subscriber inboxes with news, stories and updates about Invercargill and Bluff and the important and interesting work that Council does.  The name Love Waihōpai is a nod to ‘He Ngākau Aroha – A City with Heart’, and we know you love our city […]

To mark the start of a simmering summer and the launch of our new Love Waihōpai email newsletter, we want to know and SEE what you love about our city.   We’re looking for a budding or pro photographer with an eye for capturing the special and spectacular faces, places and spaces that we all have […]