经济发展部长菲尔·特怀福德(Hon Phil Twyford)表示，政府已为国内大型活动相关产业设立了一个新的$1000万基金，助其从疫情中恢复过来，从而保障就业。
政府此前与活动相关部门进行了会谈了解情况后制定了一项联合策略，促进活动部门的生存和增长，因此才有了2020预算案中的这笔专项资金。
部长表示，组织大型活动对民众和国家都很重要，有助于提高在贸易，文化，体育和艺术等领域的知名度。
“这些活动对于树立民族自豪感和展示新西兰风貌至关重要。设立国内活动基金（Domestic Events Fund）的目的是避免造成地区经济损失，如果没有政府扶持，这些活动恐怕会销声匿迹。通过维持这些活动，我们将保障该产业的就业。”
“这笔资金不会挽救我们的所有活动，其目的是支持那些会为地区经济带来最大即时利益的活动。它的设立是为了提供活动产业内部的现金流。”
“最重要的是，活动相关部门工作人员已经能够获得政府的工资补贴，该补贴已支付了超过$120亿，而许多人将直接或间接地从$7,000万的创新艺术复苏和就业基金中受益，以支持重建创新产业。价值$6000万的文化创新基金将被用于鼓励文化和创新领域的投资和思维创新。”部长说。
获得国内活动基金的资格：
- 在区域或全国范围内具有重大意义的现有活动，并需要资金支持才能够可持续地重新启动或重新规划
- 有助于保留行业重要的活动组织策划者和供应商，以维持产业长期发展。
编者注：
- 该基金于7月3日开始接受申请，并将保持开放状态，直到全部$1000万用完为止。
- 它将由新西兰大型活动机构（NewZealand Major Events）监管，并对现有的大型活动基金和创新与文化活动孵化器中心负责。
- 大型活动机构将与地方政府合作，以确保获得资助的活动可以刺激当地经济及就业。
- 国内活动基金适用于那些不会获得2020年预算支持的体育或艺术活动（价值$2.65亿）。
（以上为简译，仅供参考，具体内容请见原文）
英文原文
New fund to help save local events and jobs
The Government has established a new $10 million fund for the domestic events sector to help save jobs and protect incomes as it recovers from the impacts of COVID-19, Minister of Economic Development Phil Twyford announced today.
This funding from Budget 2020 follows talks with the event sector designed to develop a joint strategy for the event sector’s survival and growth.
Phil Twyford says the events sector is important to New Zealanders and the country, raising the profile of our trade, culture, sports and arts. “The events this sector delivers are fundamental to building national pride and showcasing the best that New Zealand has to offer.
“The purpose of the Domestic Events Fund is to stave off the loss of critical events which contribute to regional economies, and that without support may never return. By saving these events, jobs and the income of sector employees, contractors and freelancers will be protected.
“This fund won’t save every event, but it aims to support those events that provide the greatest flow-on benefit to regional economies. It has been set up to provide cash-flow within the sector.
“On top of this, sector workers have been able to access the Government’s wage subsidy, which has paid out more than $12 billion, and many will benefit directly and indirectly from the $70 million Creative Arts Recovery and Employment Fund to support rebuilding the creative industries, and the $60 million Cultural Innovation Fund to encourage investment and new thinking in the cultural and creative sectors,” Phil Twyford said.
To be eligible for the Domestic Events Fund, events must be:
- Existing events that are considered regionally or nationally significant, where support is needed to be able to sustainably re-start or re-scale the event, or
- Where supporting the event will help retain sector-critical event organisers and suppliers for the long-term viability of the industry.
Notes to editors:
- The fund will open for applications on July 3 and will remain open until the full $10 million has been paid out in support of the events industry.
- It will be administered by New Zealand Major Events, who already have responsibility for the existing Major Events Fund and the Creative & Cultural Event Incubator.
- The Major Events team will work with local government to make sure events that receive funding are those that create the greatest impact in supporting regional economies and jobs.
- The Domestic Events Fund targets those events that will not receive support from either the $265 million sports, or arts support announced in Budget 2020 and sits alongside existing support such as the Arts and Cultural incubator funding.
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