Deadline: 31-Mar-25
The Kaikōura District Council is offering funding through its Discretionary Fund to respond to community needs by providing funding assistance where no other funding support is available.
Categories
- The Council will consider requests for funding from not-for-profit community organisations providing services in the following categories (in no order of priority):
- Arts & Culture
- Community Facilities
- Community Welfare and Social Services
- Environment
- Heritage
- Sport and Recreation
- Other at the discretion of the Council
Funding Information
- The fund has an overall budget of $100,000, to be allocated by the Council at the Council’s absolute discretion, which may include the timing of payments and setting a cap on the requested amounts at the time of the decision.
Eligible Activities
- Activity that can be considered for funding include (but are not limited to):
- Operating costs
- Funding for unforeseen circumstances
- Equipment
- Seeding funding for new projects/programmes
- Volunteer expenses
- Repairs and maintenance for community facilities
- Training/workshops with a community development focus that are open to the public
- Non-school-based educational programmes
- Consultancy fees towards activities such as feasibility studies or engineers reports for community projects
What cannot be funded?
- Conventions, conferences, and reunions
- School based curriculum programmes
- Retrospective funding
- All travel or costs associated with events outside of Kaikoura including overseas travel
- Projects that have already received Council funding including through contracts and partnership agreements for the same activity within the same financial year.
- Food and catering
- Fundraising events
- Projects which better fit the criteria of other Council related funds available (such as the George Low Fund, Creative Communities, Sport NZ rural travel, Significant Natural Areas fund, Kaikōura Initiatives Fund, and others).
Who can apply?
- Organisations wanting to apply for funding assistance must meet the following criteria:
- Be a not-for-profit organisation
- Provide services to the wider community or specific sectors in the Kaikoura community
- Be able to supply verified Annual Accounts
- Provide verification of charitable status (if applicable)
- Account for expenditure of funds specifically for grant received
- There must be a contribution from the applicant towards the cost of the activity applied for. This can be from the applicant’s own funds, grants from other sources, volunteer time or donated materials.
For more information, visit Kaikōura District Council.