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Community Organisation Grants Scheme (COGS) in New Zealand

Deadline: 18-May-22

The Community Matters has launched its Community Organisation Grants Scheme (COGS) to provide government-funded grants to support voluntary and not-for-profit organisations working in local communities and neighbourhoods.

Priorities
COGS committees prioritise community-based organisations delivering services to one or more of these priority sectors:
  • Māori
  • women
  • Pacific communities
  • other ethnic communities
  • older people
  • rurally isolated people
  • people with disabilities
  • families
  • youth and children
  • unemployed people
  • community-based organisations with limited access to other government funding
Outcomes
Organisations requesting COGS grants need to show how their community-based services or projects will contribute to:
  • encouraging participation in communities
  • promoting community leadership
  • developing community capability
  • promoting social, economic and cultural equity, or
  • reducing the downstream social and economic costs to communities and government.
What they fund?
COGS provides grants to non-profit community groups and organisations delivering community-based social services, projects and events. Grants are one-off contributions for:
  • the running or operational costs of organisations that provide community-based social services
  • community development costs, such as hui, training, planning, evaluation and facilitator fees
  • community projects or event costs that:
    • encourage participation in communities
    • promote community leadership
    • promote social, economic and cultural equity.
What criteria do I need to meet to enter?
  • You must enter a physical product
  • The product must be sold to consumers
  • The product must be available for sale to the public by 7th June 2022
  • Your business must be the brand owner of the product entered
  • The person submitting the entry must be at least 18 years old at the time of entry
  • Your business must be registered in an EEA country, the UK or Switzerland
  • The business must employ fewer than 250 persons and which have an annual turnover not exceeding EUR 50 million, and/or an annual balance sheet total not exceeding EUR 43 million at the time of entry
  • The product entered must not have received any award in the context of previous editions of the Awards

For more information, visit https://www.communitymatters.govt.nz/community-organisations-grants-scheme/