Deadline: 13-May-22
The Auckland Council has announced the applications for the Community Coordination and Facilitation Grant Program.
This grant will provide funding support for:
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community conservation coordinators or facilitators to guide communities through how to:
- deliver projects across Tamaki Makaurau
- reduce the spread of animal and plant pests, and restore native biodiversity.
- community-led conservation activity that rehabilitates, protects and restores urban and rural streams across landscapes or catchments
- strategic and operational planning
- the costs of increasing the quality and quantity of community conservation work on the ground e.g. administration.
Types of projects funded by the grant
Funding Information
Amount: $0 – $50,000
What the grant will fund?
All activities must support current or future on-the-ground delivery for Pest Free Auckland and regional biodiversity:
- Administration: activity relating to the management of the group or organisation
- Developing processes that will help applicants respond more effectively to the expected increased on-the-ground delivery
- A contribution towards facilitator or coordinator time
- Strategic or operational planning: development of pest free plans or similar.
Outcomes
Organisations, mana whenua, schools or groups:
- substantially increase the community-led conservation and pest free activity they are delivering across the region
- have the long-term sustainability, capacity and capability of delivering the increased work where it's needed on an ongoing basis
- work together on similar activities across a landscape/catchment or at a regional scale where possible.
Eligibility Criteria
Community organisations, mana whenua and schools or groups who are doing community-led biodiversity focussed conservation work that contributes towards:
- ecological health of streams and catchments
- regional biodiversity outcomes
- delivery of the Pest Free Auckland 2050 vision.
The grant will support programmes and activities that occur at a broad regional, landscape or catchment scale and will facilitate increased delivery across private, Maori and public land, or across multiple land tenures.
What the grant will not fund?
The grant will not fund:
- organisations who do not contribute to the delivery of Pest Free Auckland 2050, regional biodiversity outcomes, or the ecological health of streams and catchments
- material costs associated with restoration projects, like spades, loppers, weed bags and plants
- commercial contractors to do the on the ground work, such as commercial weed control or planting
- coordination and facilitation, planning or other relevant activity that has already been completed
- coordination and facilitation, or other activity that does not contribute towards Pest Free Auckland, regional biodiversity outcomes, or the rehabilitation, protection and restoration of waterways
- activities that do not align with Auckland Council work and values
- capital assets, such as structures like platforms or gazebos.
For more information, visit Auckland Council.
For more information, visit https://www.aucklandcouncil.govt.nz/grants-community-support-housing/grants/grants-calendar/Pages/grant-details.aspx?itemID=77
