As everyone in the art world knows, producing music concerts, visual arts and sculpture festivals and other arts events is expensive.  Like arts organisations across the nation, expenses of bringing you and the wider community the very best in classical music, contemporary visual arts and sculpture – and new developments in 2025 – often outstrip the income from those events.  

To run these events, we rely on membership fees, artist entry fees and commissions, occasional grants … and donations.  Donations from those who are able are an absolutely crucial part of the mix.
 
We welcome your donations of any amount – small to help with operating expenses, or larger to help offset musicians appearance fees at our Concerts throughout the year or prizes which attract the best sculptors and visual artists to each of our biennial exhibitions.
 
All financial contributions to Kangaroo Valley Arts Festival Inc (Arts in the Valley) are tax deductible.
 
Arts in the Valley is one of the few regional community arts organisations that attracts nationally known musicians and holds significant exhibitions of nationally recognised contemporary artists and sculptors with significant prize money. Underwriting support allows us to bring the best to the Valley and surround regions, while also supporting creative artists, musicians and sculptors. 
 
If you might consider a larger donation, we would be happy to discuss with where you would like to allocate it, perhaps to a particular concert, or to a particular visual arts or sculpture prize.    
 
Supporters (up to $500)
Donors ($500-$1,999)
Major Donors ($2,000-$4,999)
Lead Donors ($5,000-$9,999)
Patrons ($10,000 and above – all based on cumulative life-time donations)
 
Major donors will receive:
•    Listing in all Music programs and in all Sculpture or Visual Arts catalogues. We are happy to recognise your donation to Arts in the Valley, but donors may remain anonymous if you prefer.
•    Priority invitations to all Music Concerts, and priority invitations to all Sculpture and Visual Arts previews with the opportunity to purchase artworks and sculpture before they go on sale to the general public.
•    Invitations to special donor events.
•    A tax deduction.
 
Please join with us in supporting Arts in the Valley and in our region. It’s a team effort, we and you together doing what we can to bring the best of Arts to the Valley.  

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To make a contribution, please send us an email at info@artsinthevalley.net.au and make a bank deposit to:

 

KVAF Fund
National Australia Bank
BSB 032-691
Account No 364909 

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Or contact one of us personally at the below address.  

 

With many thanks for your consideration, 
 
Gary Moore
President
president@artsinthevalley.net.au

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Peter Butler AM
Vice-President
peter.butler@hsf.com 

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Arts in the Valley would like to acknowledge the following Life Members and Benefactors who have made significant contributions to bringing arts to the Valley and surrounding regions since 2007

 

Life Members

John Wright, Tony Barnett, Glenn Ballard, Jeannette Dumbrell, 
Belinda Webster OAM, Colleen Fry, Nick & Caroline Minogue, 
Kathy & Simon Harrington AM, Robert Calkhoven

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Benefactors

Nick & Caroline Minogue, Alexander Michael (& Tony White, dec), 
Glenn & John Ballard
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Lead Donors

Michael Noonan & Bridget Crouch, Alice Oppen OAM (dec), 
Jane Matthews AO (dec), Danny & Cindy Gilbert, 
David Sanders & Cathryn Ferguson, Gary Moore & Kerri Carlton, 
Rosie & Simon Lempriere, Angus & Katherine Grinham, 
Roger Allan AM & Kathryn Lovrich, Robert & Wendy Calkhoven
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Major Donors

Liz Aitkin & Robert Morgan, Stuart McCreery & Anne Carr, Tino & Linda Vella, 
Jane McKellar & Robert Constable AM, Rex Irwin, 
Marilyn Jessop & Malcolm Gray, Geoff McClellan & Jane Bitcon, 
Ilse & Cameron O’Reilly, Jill & Peter Butler AM, Tony Barnett 
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Donors

Anonymous, Mark Buchanan & Fiona Crosbie, Elizabeth Clark,
Ian & Min Darling, Gudula Dornseifer, Naomi Elias, Allan Gilden,  
Tehri & Warren Parry, Kathy & Simon Harrington AM, Chris & Marcia Hosking, 
Helen Lunn, Jolanta Masojada & Edward Szewczyk, Kimberly Preston, 
Georgina Sanderson, Greg & Wendy See, Gerard & Barbara Volk OAM, 
John & Denise Wright

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And many other loyal Supporters for their donations

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Our Need – Your Support
Like all arts organisations across Australia, we would be unable to bring international quality music, visual arts and sculpture to the Valley and surrounding regions without your support

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You can help by Making a Donation
If you would like to consider making a tax-deductible donation, or increase the level of your previous support,

please go to artsinthevalley.net.au/donate
or contact Gary Moore, President at president@artsinthevalley.net.au

or Peter Butler, Vice-President at peter.butler@hsf.com