Deadline: 1-Apr-25
Applications are now open for the Sport New Zealand Rural Travel Fund designed to help subsidise travel for rural sports clubs and rural school teams with young people aged between 5 and 19 years who require subsidies to assist with transport expenses to local sporting competitions.
Funding Information
- The national allocation of the fund is based on a population density formula for territorial authorities whom have less than 10 people per square kilometre. 45c per capita is provided with a baseline/minimum entitlement of $9,500.
- Goods and Services Tax (GST)
- When a territorial authority makes a grant to a GST registered organisation the territorial authority must pay the grant plus GST. The grant recipient must then account for the GST to the Inland Revenue (IRD).
- If the grant recipient is not GST registered, the territorial authority will not add GST to the grant and therefore cannot claim back GST from the IRD.
Funding Criteria
- The following criteria will be applied when considering applications for funding:
- Organisations and schools with participants aged between 5 and 19 years playing sport for a club or school team who meet the eligibility criteria.
- Funding is not provided for the purpose of travel to regional or national events or sports competitions.
- Individual players, coaches and or officials are ineligible to apply for the fund.
- Funding is not provided to assist coaches, managers or officials travel costs.
Ineligible Funding
- The following are not eligible for the RTF:
- Rural school or club teams located outside of the named TAs outlined below • Individual players, coaches or officials
- Teams not participating in regular, organised, local competition
- Rural school club teams competing in inter-school or intra-school competition during school time
- Teams travelling to regional or national sport competitions
Eligibility Criteria
- School club teams and sport club teams are defined as:
- A school club team participating in regular local sport competition out of school time, that excludes inter-school and intra-school competitions played during school time; and/or,
- A sports club team participating in organised, regular sport competition through club membership outside of school time.
For more information, visit Ashburton District Council.
