Deadline: 03-Mar-23
The Auckland Council’s Howick Local Grant programme is now open for applications to support the delivery of projects, activities and services that benefit Aucklanders.
Funding Priorities
- They welcome grant applications that align to the following priorities:
- People actively contribute to their community.
- People are safe with access to services to support their wellbeing.
- Rangatahi /Youth in Howick have a voice, are valued, and contribute.
- Sports and recreational opportunities respond to the needs of their communities.
- Support local arts, culture, music and heritage activities and experiences.
- Support local business recovery from impact of COVID-19.
- They also want to prioritise and empower the community to take environmental action:
- Protect and enhance their unique coastline.
- Protect the mauri (lifeforce) of their awa(waterways).
- Their large natural areas are enhanced and protected.
- Active transport infrastructure enables connection with schools, key community facilities and transport hubs.
- Higher Priorities
- They will prioritise applications that:
- demonstrate smokefree programmes
- demonstrate zero-waste activities
- have a contribution from the applicant (for example, financial contributions, or volunteer time) or have considered alternate funding sources
- demonstrate the benefit to the local community and are held in the local board area.
- They will consider applications responding to the needs of the community from the impact of COVID-19.
- They will prioritise applications that:
- Lower Priorities
- Fundraising events or activities, unless the activity or event has a wider community benefit.
- Ongoing operational costs including wages and salaries, with the exception of fees for professional services.
- Catering.
- Purchase of gear, assets, and/or equipment with limited future usage.
- Donations for volunteers, like petrol vouchers.
Funding Information
- Grant Value: $3000 +
Outcomes
- People in their communities feel safe, engaged, and connected.
- Well planned public spaces that support active, healthy, and sustainable lifestyles.
- Heritage, local arts, and cultural diversity are valued.
- Their natural environment is protected, restored, and enhanced.
- A prosperous local economy supporting business growth and opportunity.
- Effective and accessible transport choices.
Types of Grants
- The Community Grants Policy has three main grant types:
- local grant programmes – each local board has now adopted a grants programme
- regional grant programmes
- multi-board grants: applicants can apply to three or more local boards for the same project. Applicants will need to apply to the local board with the earliest closing date.
- These grant types support:
- arts
- events
- community
- sport and recreation
- environment
- heritage.
What they don’t fund?
- Projects that community grants don’t fund
- debt servicing or repayment
- legal or medical expenses
- activities that promote religious ministry or political purposes
- public services that are the responsibility of central government, e.g. core education, health
- physical works (e.g. improvements to community buildings) before the appropriate consents have been obtained
- purchase of alcohol.
- Projects that regional grants don’t fund
- medical expenses
- travel and accommodation outside Auckland
- retrospective costs
- fundraising events or activities.
Eligibility Criteria
- Community organisations
- The primary beneficiaries of community grants will be not-for-profit, charitable and voluntary organisations. These groups are often referred to collectively as ‘community organisations’ because they are established with the primary purpose of providing a benefit to the wider community.
- Community organisations generally display the following characteristics:
- A not-for-profit organisation, or an association of individuals whose primary aim is providing services and benefits to the community at large
- Membership or participation is available to anyone who wishes to join
- May be a special interest or advocacy group for a particular section of the community, but the group or organisation should not impose restrictions upon membership
- Auckland Council will prioritise grant funding for community organisations as they recognise that their primary purpose is to provide community benefits and they may have limited revenue streams and/or opportunities to raise funds to pay for the valuable work they do.
- Individuals and groups with no formal legal structure
- Individuals and groups with no formal legal structure may apply for grants of up to $1,000 through the local grants programmes, except where individual local boards have specifically stated otherwise.
- Commercial entities
- Commercial entities – e.g. Limited Liability Companies – may apply for grants in certain circumstances, except where individual local boards or governing body committees have specifically stated they will not consider applications from such entities.
- Social innovation and social enterprise
- Auckland Council welcomes grant applications from social enterprises delivering outcomes for their communities. Social enterprises are hybrid organisations that trade goods and services in order to achieve their social, environmental, economic or cultural goals. There are a variety of legal structures which social enterprises can adopt, including but not limited to:
- Charitable Trusts
- Limited Liability Companies
- Incorporated Societies
- Cooperatives or Unions
- Auckland Council welcomes grant applications from social enterprises delivering outcomes for their communities. Social enterprises are hybrid organisations that trade goods and services in order to achieve their social, environmental, economic or cultural goals. There are a variety of legal structures which social enterprises can adopt, including but not limited to:
For more information, visit Auckland Council.